Antique Airshow in Big Bear Lake, CA
Jul 8, 2019 11:48:20 #
docshark wrote:
Nice variety and perspective in this set Brent.
-Doc
-Doc
Thanks for your appreciation Doc.
Jul 8, 2019 12:53:16 #
BrentHarder wrote:
On July 6th the photo shoot was at the Antique Airshow in Big Bear Lake, CA.
I tried to capture the "not so typical" airshow shots.
These are best viewed in download mode!
I tried to capture the "not so typical" airshow shots.
These are best viewed in download mode!
Interesting.
Jul 8, 2019 13:58:31 #
BrentHarder wrote:
On July 6th the photo shoot was at the Antique Airshow in Big Bear Lake, CA.
I tried to capture the "not so typical" airshow shots.
These are best viewed in download mode!
I tried to capture the "not so typical" airshow shots.
These are best viewed in download mode!
393 for me -yellow🤗🤗🤗
Jul 8, 2019 13:59:54 #
BrentHarder wrote:
On July 6th the photo shoot was at the Antique Airshow in Big Bear Lake, CA.
I tried to capture the "not so typical" airshow shots.
These are best viewed in download mode!
I tried to capture the "not so typical" airshow shots.
These are best viewed in download mode!
Oh no 293😂
Jul 8, 2019 15:32:27 #
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Jul 8, 2019 16:43:14 #
Susan yamakawa wrote:
393 for me -yellow🤗🤗🤗
Oh Susan! You crack me up! lol
Jul 8, 2019 16:44:37 #
Susan yamakawa wrote:
Oh no 293😂
293 is not on fire! It purposely has smoke coming out for effect!!
Jul 8, 2019 16:45:04 #
Jul 8, 2019 16:45:48 #
FiddleMaker wrote:
Same here.
Very cool FiddleMaker! You are onboard with the other P-38 lovers!
Jul 8, 2019 20:14:59 #
Jul 8, 2019 20:37:29 #
BrentHarder wrote:
On July 6th the photo shoot was at the Antique Airshow in Big Bear Lake, CA.
I tried to capture the "not so typical" airshow shots.
These are best viewed in download mode!
I tried to capture the "not so typical" airshow shots.
These are best viewed in download mode!
Excellent!!
Jul 8, 2019 21:06:18 #
Brent, Thank you for the great shots and the memories that go with them. I have been to many of the Air Shows while in CA and have met some of the pilots in you shots. Good memories and great shots. Thanks again
Jul 9, 2019 00:06:42 #
The P-38 "lightning" is the plane that shot down Japanese General Yamamoto, the planner of the "Pearl Harbor Attack". Much controversy ensued before a decision that Yamamoto was shot from the sky by Rex Barber, who later became Mayor of Redmond Oregon, where I post this from.
Yamamoto's body was recovered from the Japanese bomber he was being transported in to a conference in the South Pacific. The latest bridge over the Crooked River Canyon in Central Oregon is dedicated to Barber and a huge amount of information on the downing of Yamamoto's aircraft is posted at the bridge site, on HWY 97 just North of Redmond Oregon. Another Air Corp pilot in Redmond broke his back while exitiing a P-38 going down and getting caught in his parachute on the elevator between the twin rudders. His name was Cal Butler, and I took lessons and rented planes from his local Butler Flying service. Cal bought many WWII surplus planes and converted them for fighting forest fires all over the PNW.
The air shows in Redmond have always been big and noisy with these old warbirds.
The planning to intercept Yamamoto, involved a huge amount of convoluted planning and two flights of P-38 convoys to take off from different locations and intercept at a third point, over the Ocean near some islands. The plan worked well, yet there was some controversy over which of two pilots made the kill. An autopsy on Yamamoto's body helped resolve the credit for the "kill" of the man who planned "Pearl Harbor" on December 7th, 1941.
Yamamoto's body was recovered from the Japanese bomber he was being transported in to a conference in the South Pacific. The latest bridge over the Crooked River Canyon in Central Oregon is dedicated to Barber and a huge amount of information on the downing of Yamamoto's aircraft is posted at the bridge site, on HWY 97 just North of Redmond Oregon. Another Air Corp pilot in Redmond broke his back while exitiing a P-38 going down and getting caught in his parachute on the elevator between the twin rudders. His name was Cal Butler, and I took lessons and rented planes from his local Butler Flying service. Cal bought many WWII surplus planes and converted them for fighting forest fires all over the PNW.
The air shows in Redmond have always been big and noisy with these old warbirds.
The planning to intercept Yamamoto, involved a huge amount of convoluted planning and two flights of P-38 convoys to take off from different locations and intercept at a third point, over the Ocean near some islands. The plan worked well, yet there was some controversy over which of two pilots made the kill. An autopsy on Yamamoto's body helped resolve the credit for the "kill" of the man who planned "Pearl Harbor" on December 7th, 1941.
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