My family and I went to Baltimore, Maryland for one night because my brother, Anthony, had doctors appointments there.  We went on a Thursday night and I remembered that there was an air show in Baltimore on the weekend.  I was wondering to myself if we were going to see any planes before the show.

After we checked into our hotel and had dinner at a restuarant, I asked my Dad if we could go to Martin State airport because that was where the air show aircraft would be.  My dad said no at first because he didn't think any of the aircraft would be there yet, but we decided to drive to airport anyway.  When we got to the airport, there was a guard shack with a lady in it.  We asked her if we could get into the airport museum, but she said it was closed.  Then the lady looked into our van and saw my brother in his wheelchair and me.  She asked if we wanted to see the Blue Angels instead and we almost screamed with joy.  This was awesome!  My dad couldn't believe that I was right and we drove as fast as we could to park.

Once we got out of the van, we tried to get my brother to the flightline to see the airplanes, but there were steps and his wheelchair could not make it.  So one of the workers saw us and told us that he would let us into the secure gate and we drove our van right onto the runway!  Isn't that awesome?  We couldn't believe our lucky day.

We saw ten Blue Angels lined up perfectly, two Sikorsky helicopters, an F-18 Superhornet, T-45 Goshawk, and a C-130.  One of the Sikorsky helicopters took off of the taxi way.  We got blown away with the dust until it took off.

The next day after Anthony's doctors appointments we went back to the airport and saw a F-18 Superhornet take off.  It was extremely loud and it took off and went vertically into the air.  We also saw a T-45 Goshawk sneak attack when it flew over the control tower at a low altitude and high speed.    That was cool.

This was a fun trip and I am glad I got to touch the Blue Angels/F-18 Superhornets.