HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The twists, turns, dips and dives were on full display on Saturday during the Warriors Over The Wasatch air show.
After two years, the air show made its return to Hill Air Force Base with plenty of action to be seen from on the ground and in the sky.
“This air show is one of the largest air shows in the western United States,” said Kevin Ireland, the executive director of the Utah Air Show Foundation.
Ireland says several hundred thousand people are expected to turn out over the weekend to see all the aerial acrobatics the planes will be performing.
“We have everything from World War II aircraft to high-performance aerobatics, we have Tora, Tora, Tora during World War II re-enactment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and then of course, we have F-35 demo, who is stationed here at Hill and of course the United States Air Force Thunderbirds,” said Ireland. “We’re probably talking about 30 different, 40 different aircraft and that many pilots as well.”
The first air show here was put on back in 1954. While the event is free to the public, Ireland says it gives a nice jolt to the state’s economy.