Who is scheduled to perform at the Quonset Point Rhode Island Air Show?”
This year, the air show is showing off. The Rhode Island National Guard Open House & Air Show, which is Saturday and Sunday at Quonset Point, features not just one headlining jet-fighter-performance team, but two: the Navy’s Blue Angels and the Canadian Forces Snowbirds. “I am hearing that this seldom happens,” says Lt. Col. Denis Riel, the Guard’s public affairs officer. “It’s like seeing the Rolling Stones and the Beatles at the same concert. Or, if you’re younger, it’s like U2 and the Cure.” But there are lots of other performers. There are dozens of aeronautical demonstrations, fly-bys and simulations (of an airfield attack). And there are lots of people, usually about 70,000 each day. Perhaps that last point isn’t an attraction, but this year it shouldn’t be a deterrent. Route 403, which brings traffic from Route 4 to Quonset, has been expanded from two lanes to four. “That will make traffic so much better. We know that was a sticking point in the past.” Every year the show, which
