I feel like I should be part of some 12-step program when I say the following. "Hello, my name is James (Hi James) and I... I've..... I've never been to the Chino Airshow." GASP!
Well gasp no more. My good friend Chuck and I spent the weekend in Southern California in awe and gawking at the amount and quality of aircraft both on the ground and in the skies over Chino during the 2011 airshow. If I had to sum up the experience in a single word it would have to be overwhelming.
Driving from Tucson, Arizona we arrived at the Planes of Fame museum and photographed the activities necessary to get your display aircraft ready to fly: washing, polishing, engine runs and test flights. Friday we visited Yanks Air Museum and later photographed arrivals and practice sessions. Saturday and Sunday... photographed. Monday we drove back and took a detour to the Palm Springs Air Museum and again photographed. Notice a pattern? To say there's a bit of processing ahead of me might just be an understatement. So I leave you with a single photo, a partial panorama of the flight line at Chino: four P-51 Mustangs, a P-63 King Cobra, two YAK-3s (one radial powered, one Allison powered), and a Mitsubishi Zero powered by the original engine no less.
Well gasp no more. My good friend Chuck and I spent the weekend in Southern California in awe and gawking at the amount and quality of aircraft both on the ground and in the skies over Chino during the 2011 airshow. If I had to sum up the experience in a single word it would have to be overwhelming.
Driving from Tucson, Arizona we arrived at the Planes of Fame museum and photographed the activities necessary to get your display aircraft ready to fly: washing, polishing, engine runs and test flights. Friday we visited Yanks Air Museum and later photographed arrivals and practice sessions. Saturday and Sunday... photographed. Monday we drove back and took a detour to the Palm Springs Air Museum and again photographed. Notice a pattern? To say there's a bit of processing ahead of me might just be an understatement. So I leave you with a single photo, a partial panorama of the flight line at Chino: four P-51 Mustangs, a P-63 King Cobra, two YAK-3s (one radial powered, one Allison powered), and a Mitsubishi Zero powered by the original engine no less.
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