Chandler Air show 1974

[RobC]

Neal, do you have anymore pictures of that flight of the Mustang Pilots Club airplane? I think you might have captured my first Mustang flight! Tha looks like Dr. Cartwright up front. That feller in the back is too camera shy.

[Zac Yates]

Man oh man Neal, that one of the two P-40 noses is so sharp it could've been taken yesterday! Wow!

[Neal Nurmi]

I guess people are interested in this old stuff. I never know -- it seems like some ancient irrelevant history sometimes. I expect interest in my 40 years of Racing stuff, but interest in such old air show stuff always surprises me a bit.

Wish they were all like that, Zack. At that point I was thinking hard about photography as a profession -- I knew I was good at it, but making money is a somewhat different matter. But I did put a lot of work into sharp. And, doing sharp at ASA 25 and manual everything is indeed work. I never did make much money,but I sure have known a lot of interesting people, done some great flying (have I ever posted any Snowbirds flight shots here?), and had a really good time. The Warbird community includes an awful lot of wonderful people.

Rob -- I doubt it. I didn't know anything about Warbirds at that time. That was the first time in my whole life that I'd ever even SEEN a Mustang. Remember that three months earlier I didn't even know there were flying World War II airplanes.

Thanks to all for the compliments -- I'll try to get some more up this evening -- if I can remember how to Flikr...