Matthew Monday: Father’s Day 2025, The Air Show

As you may know, Matthew and I have what we call our Father’s Day adventure every Father’s Day.  It’s just a father and son outing.  I’ve documented our Father’s Days on my blog from when I started the blog in 2013.  If you click the “Father’s Day” tag at the bottom of this post you can pull up the Father’s Day posts through the years.  Some great pictures in those blogs.  And I do really get watery-eyed nostalgic looking back at Matthew as a little boy.

This year we went to an air show.  I’ve never been to an air show before, and obviously neither has Matthew.  It was the NJ Air Show and you can look at their website.  

The weather was overcast, so they had to cancel a few performances, but what we saw was thrilling.  The show started at 5:30 and was a combination of daytime and nighttime shows.  The daytime acts allowed for smoke trails off the planes while night show provided the opportunity to for fireworks off the planes. 

Let me give you a sample of photos and videos I took.

The show started with the National Anthem and the American flag was taken up to the sky by one of the Airythmia pilots.

That’s essentially a powered parasail with a pilot hanging to the parachute.  I will have more on Airythmia when their part of the show comes up.

Here’s a picture of two planes in tight formation.  This is a father and son team I think. 

Here is a movie of the two doing a near miss cross.

Here is a still picture of another near miss cross.

 

If speed, engine sound, and tight formation is your thing, here are three jets blasting across the sky.

I believe the group is called “The Next Generation Eagles.”  And a still picture.

I can’t recall every act, so I’m just going to give you some videos.  Here’s one with flips, nose dives, and maneuvers.

As you can see and hear, flights were accompanied by trailing smoke and music.

Let me get to the Airythmia Paramotor team.  This is so cool.  It’s basically a parasail with the pilot dangling in the air with a motor on his back.  Here’s a zoomed in photo as best I could capture it.

But they put on a show, a beautiful show. 

Here’s a movie clip of part of the show.  You can see there are a group of four.

Here is a photo of one them landing.

Man you have to have a lot of courage to go up in that thing.  They said they offer lessons for those that might want to take that up.  No Thanks.  Here is one of the pilots talking to the audience after their event.

I asked the guy when how much that gear weighed.  He said around a hundred pounds.  Wowser!

My favorite I think was this highly maneuverable plane.  I think it was called the “Long EZ,” piloted by Kyle Fowler.  Here is a still shot in flight.

Those wings are for hard maneuver authority.  Unfortunately I did not catch a video of it.  But you can read about the pilot, Kyle Fowler, here.  And watch a YouTube clip.

 

I think he did a smoke 360 for us too!  I thought Kyle Fowler and his Long EZ plane was the epitome of what stunt flying should be. 

They closed the show with another high maneuvering plane, the Fox Jet Sail Plane.  This was really neat.

The Air Show was a lot of fun for both Matthew and me.  The only picture we got of us was Matthew’s selfie.

A great and different Father’s Day!