Made it back from the Wings Over Gillespie Air Show, had to exercise some restraint before I spent too much money. My pictures of aircraft in flight did not turn out as well on the screen as they did on the camera’s 2" display.
http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a150/deattilio/Gillespie%20Airshow%2011/?albumview=slideshow
I recognized a bunch of Planes of Fame aircraft, but had never heard of Gillespie. I looked it up, a short hop from Chino.
I have a picture my father took with my friends and I in front of that Hellcat when we were about 10. That was many moons ago. Growing up going to Chino beat Disneyland hands down.
Bill
Thanks for posting your album,it was awesome! Im jealous...I love the warbirds and the airshow I went to had a fraction of the number at your airshow. Looks like a real Zero...? Ive never seen a Hellcat,Wildcat SBD, Bearcat or an f3f in person before…some day I hope…lol.
If you ever get to Southern CA, I recommend going to Chino (east of Los Angelse). There are two massive air museums there. Planes of Fame was one of the first starting in the 1950s. Most of the rarities at that airshow came from the Planes of Fame. They have the only flyable P-12, only flyable P-26, last P-35. That flying wing was a Northrop proof of concept plane, it flies.
The other air museum out there is the Yanks Air Museum. Yanks is owned by some billionaire who loves old airplanes. He gets rarities and restores them to flyable and factory new. He has two P-47Ms, a P-51A, an SBD-4, a large number of pre-WW II aircraft, etc. The Yanks museum is two giant buildings with a restoration shop. There was a TBF-1 recovered from Guadalcanal in the restoration shop last time I was there.
The Planes of Fame buildings are a little smaller, but I think they have five hangers. It took me about 6 hours to go through both. I took over 400 pictures.
There is also a big warbird restoration place there, but they didn’t have anything interesting parked outside last time I was there. Back in the early 80s they had 6 B-26As still with the red dot in the middle of the stars parked in their junkyard. They had been recovered from Alaska. They got one flying which now belongs to Kermit Weeks in Florida.
Bill
Beautiful gallery of photos. Thanks for sharing. The shots of the P-51 flying above the parked B-17 were different in a very good way. Again, very nice of you to share some great photos. Rick.
First off thanks for making my morning the Antonov pics are really cool i love that bird. all the pics are great thanks for sharing .