The State Fair of Texas opens Friday at Fair Park in Dallas, beginning a 24-day run through Oct. 18 with lower ticket prices, Big Tex, fried food, rides and a military flyover at tonight’s opening ceremony.
Parking gates and ticket booths open at 9:30 a.m. Entry gates open at 10 a.m. Friday hours run until 10 p.m., with last entry at 9 p.m. The fair is at 3809 Grand Avenue, just east of downtown. The DART Green Line stops at Fair Park Station near the main gate.
The opening ceremony is set for 6:45 p.m. on the Hall of State steps. After the national anthem, an America 250 flyover is scheduled with a B-52 Stratofortress, two F-35 Lightning IIs and an A-10 Thunderbolt II. New U.S. Air Force enlistees are then expected to take the Oath of Enlistment. An HH-60 Pave Hawk and other military displays are planned near the Hall of State through Sunday. This year’s theme is “Stars, Stripes, and Howdies.”…