Chenault Air Show
by steamtug on Oct.26, 2015, under General
It takes a crazy man to put a jet engine into a truck…. so how crazy would you be to put 3 jet engines into a truck? “Shockwave” was just one of the amazing attractions I saw at the Chenault air base here in Louisiana at their annual airshow. With Hurricane Patricia breaking up over the gulf, it was bound to start raining soon, but there was too much to see and do before she arrived. So it reminded me of the airshow we have at home, for the Avalon Airshow. There was some very spectacular aerobatics happening, and the weather was deteriorating all the while until they finally realised that Sunday was going to be a disaster, so they announced that they had lots of shit to blow up in 1 day instead of 2! One of the most impressive things was the Shockwave jet truck. It was fitted out with 3 gas turbine jet engines. As a gas turbine engineer, I wanted to offer to join their team, but wasn’t crazy enough. They did a couple of passes with lots of fire, flame and noise. Then the truck lined up and did a full speed pass. 36,000 hp pushed her to 300 miles per hour up the runway. Lucky it didn’t have wings and remained on the ground. Very impressive all the same….
