The Museum of Flight’s Aug. 4-5 Seafair weekend outdoor festival-by-the-flightline, Jet Blast Bash, offers fast planes, fast cars, music, food and beer with the closest seats in Seattle to the ceremony and thunder of the Blue Angels’ takeoffs and landings. The event is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and free with admission to the Museum. Jet Blast Bash is also the launch pad for most of the other Boeing Seafair Air Show performers.
Taking center stage will be a rare World War II-era PBY Catalina flying boat from Canada, and visiting with compliments of the US Navy is a new E/A-18 Growler and an E-2C Hawkeye. Visitors will also have access to the last weekend of tours onboard the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, an MD-10 cargo plane converted into the world’s only flying eye care teaching hospital. The Orbis jet will be parked on the Museum tarmac for tours all weekend.
Jet Blast Bash boasts classic cars, safe trampolines by Springfree®, activities for the kids, live music performances by The Mix and the Boeing Employee Stage Band, and a beer garden underneath the Lockheed Super Constellation airliner with catering by McCormick and Schmick’s. Visitors can also meet representatives from dozens of community partners with clubs and museums focused on planes, trains, automobiles and ships.
Inside of the Museum, there will be presentations about the history of the Blue Angels, and renowned SR-71 Blackbird pilot and author, Brian Shul, returns with his world-famous tales from the edge of space. For more information visit www.museumofflight.org
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Born in Milan, Italy, Moreno moved to the U.S. in 1999 to pursue a career as a commercial pilot. His aviation passion began early, inspired by his uncle, an F-104 Starfighter Crew Chief, and his father, a military traffic controller. Childhood adventures included camping outside military bases and watching planes at Aeroporto Linate. In 1999, he relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, to obtain his commercial pilot license, a move that became permanent. With 24 years in the U.S., he now flies full-time for a Part 91 business aviation company in Atlanta. He is actively involved with the Commemorative Air Force, the D-Day Squadron, and other aviation organizations. He enjoys life with his supportive wife and three wonderful children.
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