MAAM WWII Weekend June 2019 Part 2

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Once I made it through ticket takers who scanned my paper ticket I saw porta johns to the left, already with a line and food options to the right. I used the former before attending to the latter. The red porta johns have a handy but too small hook which was just able to support my camera – a feature absent in most that I have seen.

There were four food areas but the one near the gate had ten stands, the 3 leftmost seemed to be together. Available was burgers, hot dogs, chicken strips, fries, ice cream, pit beef, chili dogs, root beer floats, crab cakes, pizza, funnel cakes, and stuffed pretzels. I initially set my sights on chicken strips and fries with a bottle of water. I no longer remember what that total was but when they said there was a $2 fee for credit cards I laughed and looked for a different choice.

I settled for a ham and cheese stuffed pretzel from Uncle Paul’s Stuffed Pretzels for $9 and a bottle of water for $2. They had no credit card fee. The stuffed pretzel was delicious. It had a golden brown pretzel shell with plenty of ham and cheese inside. It was so big, in fact, I could only eat about 80% of it. I made a follow up query with them on their facebook page and they responded within an hour. Friendly online and offline, I recommend checking them out if you see them.

My growling monster satisfied I looked about me to see the sights. The first things to see near the food vending area are World War II era aircraft of all description. Trainers, spotters, fighters, cargo aircraft, and bombers are all seen on the ground and in the air. In fact the entire length of the fence line facing the active runway was lined with people standing and watching the action. There were also rows of lawn chairs two and sometimes three deep that attendees had brought! There were aircraft from the show as well as traffic from the airport taking off and landing almost continually and one could spend the entire day just watching this and go home satisfied.

In this area rides on many of these wonderful aircraft can be purchased. The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum deleted the page containing information on the rides by the time I was gathering information for this blog posting. However, the Commemorative Air Force was present with many of their aircraft and their page provides information on the rides including pricing. Take a look! Other organizations also provided rides in their aircraft.

Turning around from this area I went down Taxiway G (Golf) and found several re-enactment groups with two Chinese re-enactment groups at the end. After examining the sights in this area I headed to the other side of the Taxiway looking at more vehicles, re-enactors and their various exhibits along the way.

Making my way to Taxiway D (Delta) I saw smaller aircraft that appeared to be training and spotting aircraft as well as more re-enactors and their exhibits. As I approached the intersection of Taxiway D and Taxiway H (Hotel) it was time for the vehicles parade to begin.

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