CAF AIRSHO 2006 pictures

Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:30 am

Here are a few pictures from the trip. I had to leave at 2pm on Saturday to get back to San Antonio in time, so I didn't get as many good opportunities to shoot as I wanted. Most of the better pictures I took were on Friday. I spent most of Saturday morning talking to veterans and staying with the aircraft.

A beautiful flyby with three Pacific War fighter aircraft.

A fun shot of the West Coast F-15 demo ship. He used a lot of afterburner during the demostration.

Probably my best shot of the weekend with Gunfighter and the F-15 flying the Heritage Flight formation.

No need for a caption...

I appreciate this aircraft because my Uncle Gerry was on the USS Franklin...

Gotta love the ugly Mohawk.

A nice Hawkeye.

Enjoyed meeting Gary with the FIFI crew. Hope they can get her up and flying soon! That was some great news this weekend.

The Liaison guys had a new deal this year. The CAF guys had us fly a "Dawn Patrol" around the cities of Midland and Odessa around 9am to kind of stir up interest in the show. There were 8 of us, flying about 1000 ft of seperation 1000 AGL above the cities. It was a blast.

My ride to Midland and back sitting on the ramp. Really enjoyed the trip, and the event. Hope to go back again.

Ryan

Edited to conserve my bandwidth, which was about to tank!

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Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:52 am

Ryan,

Nice job! Thanks for the report and photos.

Bill

Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:05 am

Very nice Ryan. Thanks for sharing with us. Sounds like you had a good time.

Robbie

Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:09 am

Thanks for sharing Ryan...love the Pacific warbirds photo!!

John

Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:17 am

Forgot to post this of the Shackleton:

I have more pictures, but haven't decided which ones to resize and post.

Ryan

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Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:42 am

Thanks for the pics, Ryan.

I'm curious: What was the "great news" you heard concerning the B-29?

Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:17 am

Its donation jar got VERY full!

Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:42 pm

There were nothing but

's around FiFi' & her PX.....

Well done,

Lynn

Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:29 am

Some more pictures...

Another Mohawk shot for Chuck.

The forlorn B-23 sitting off to the side.

The P-82.

The C-47 on final.

Zero taking off.

More coming...

Ryan

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Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:54 am

Ryan thanks for the B-23 shot. Sure does break my heart to see her that way.

Hope someday someone with deep pockets can get her going again.

Robbie

Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:12 am

I thought it was reported that the P-82 was headed for California? Did the Tom Cruise sponsorship not make it into fruition or is there still ownership issues?

Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:09 am

Chad:
The P-82 is still in a work in progress. I can't report much, and any speculation out there really doesn't help much at all. Stay tuned.
Bill
CAF Gen Staff

Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:15 pm

Thanks for the info Bill. I will wait for the details to be released whenever that time comes. I was just a bit surprised to see the pic of it at Midland as it was "reported" to be on its way to SoCal some months back.

Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:19 pm

Ryan, your Uncle was on the Franklin?? So was mine, VFM-452 flying Corsairs. He was in the book Above & Beyond. He's Bo Little, one of the two driver who flew over the B-24 base inverted

In the Marines, his name was Raymond Little.

Lynn

Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:03 am

Lynn Allen wrote:Ryan, your Uncle was on the Franklin?? So was mine, VFM-452 flying Corsairs. He was in the book Above & Beyond. He's Bo Little, one of the two driver who flew over the B-24 base inverted In the Marines, his name was Raymond Little.

Lynn

Actually my great-uncle. He was a radio room message runner, and was probably one of the only guys in the radio compartment to survive when they were hit.

Ryan