Photos of yesterday's event at CMA

[Dan Newcomb]

Come out tomorrow and see Chino’s P-40 and our Zero fly to commemorate the CBI and celebrate Thomas Van Stein’s artwork. CAF hangars 10-4. The restoration hangar also will be open.

Dan

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[Dan Newcomb]

The P-40 arrived just moments ago. Both aircraft will fly tomorrow at 1300hrs. See you there.

[Dave Fish]

Glad to hear the P-40 arrived...Between the unveiling of Thomas' painting at 1230 and the fly-over at 1300, it will be a GREAT afternoon!

[vg-photo]

And having the Collings birds there is an added bonus. I am looking forward to getting some great pictures tomorrow.

[Dan Newcomb]

Noted artist, fellow wing member, PBJ crewmember and great friend Thomas Van Stein unveiled his latest aviation painting yesterday at CMA. It sounded like a good reason to celebrate so we brought out some of our toys and played with them for a while over Ventura County. David Price just happened to be flying by in his Mustang and joined up. What a blast!

[mustangdriver]

That is one sweet looking event. Looks like the weather was great as well.

[Junkyard36]

Great pics! This looks like one of those "wish I was there" events! Do you have any more of the Zero and P-40?

[Dave Fish]

...It sounded like a good reason to celebrate so we brought out some of our toys and played with them for a while over Ventura County...

Fantastic photos Dan. It was a GREAT Day!

[TAdan]

Great pictures Dan! Thanks for sharing.

I love the formation shot. 62 years ago that Zero pilot would be having a very bad day

[vg-photo]

Nice work Dan! I will have some to post shortly, been going through about 900 shots from Saturday.

[vg-photo]

I posted a new section on my website from the event. It is at:
http://www.vg-photo.com/airshow/may05-2007/050507.html

Some highlights:

[Former Member]

Great pics guys...thanks for sharing them!

On a side note...what is the history behind the CAF zero?

John

[CAPFlyer]

Well, this isn't "the" CAF Zero. That aircraft is now at Pearl Harbor on static display. This aircraft is the ex-Planes of Fame aircraft.

edit- the post below is more correct. I forgot that the plane was technically the Museum of Flying's and was on loan to the Planes of Fame in the late '90s.

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[vg-photo]

The history of this airplane is well covered on the Pacific Wrecks site:

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/a6m3/3869.html

[Former Member]

Thanks guys!

John