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John Lamont is captured in the skies over Omaka during
the delivery flight to Auckland, New Zealand of The Fighter Factory’s
recently acquired Lavochkin La-9. Restored by Pioneer Aero Restorations,
it is currently the only La-9 airworthy in the world today. |
| 2. |
Matt “Action” Jackson positions Peter Hambling’s
beautifully restored On Mark Marketeer “Sexy Sue” (S/N:44-35562,
NL7079G) for a Warbirds International photo shoot over the Pacific Ocean
off the California coast. |
| 3. |
Dennis Sanders flying Chuck Greenhill’s Cavalier F-51D
Mustang “Lou IV” over the undercast near Ione, CA. prior to the 2010
National Championship Air Races. Painted in the markings of Col. Thomas
J. J. Christian, Group Commander of the 361st Fighter Group “Yellowjackets”,
Lou IV is certainly one of the most famous World War II P-51s. |
| 4. |
Nathan Clark flying his Harvard just south of
Christchurch, NZ. The aircraft is based in the South Island and was
imported into New Zealand from South Africa when the type was retired in
that country. It carries the registration ZK-XSA, a good reminder of
this aircraft’s past. |
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San Diego pilot Michael Steel gets some air in a replica
1911 Curtiss A-1 Triad seaplane on San Diego Bay to open the 100th
anniversary celebration of naval aviation at the North Island Naval Air
Station in Coronado. Normally hanging from the ceiling on display in the
San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park, the Triad had a loaned OX-5
engine installed for the event. |
| 6. |
Chris Galloway flies his 1936 Waco YQC near Woodland,
CA. and bases it at Yolo County Airport. This airplane was the first YQC
to be built and was the prototype for the series YQC, ZQC and AQC (all
the same airframe, different engines). It was sold new and was used as a
corporate transport until World War II, and then used during the war for
submarine patrol on the East coast. |
| 7. |
Jim Dale flying the Palm Spring Air Museum’s rare Bell
P-63A Kingcobra “Pretty Polly”, John-Curtiss Paul in the Warhawk Air
Museum’s Curtiss P-40N Warhawk “Parrothead”, John Maloney in the Planes
of Fame Air Museum’s Curtiss P-40N Warhawk, and Mark Moodie flying Ken
Wagner’s N.A. P-51D Mustang “Lady Alice” over Chino, CA in preparation
for the 2009 Planes of Fame Airshow. |
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Jim Ricketts flies Dave Statham's 1942 Stinson L-5
Sentinel “Super Snooper” during the Vintage Aircraft and Collings
Foundation's Bomber Crew Fantasy Camp near Stockton Field, CA. Jim flew
patrol for the B-24 Liberator while they dropped dummy bombs on a target
located on a nearby farm. |
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Daryl Bond’s N.A. TF-51D Mustang "Lady Jo", being flown
by Robbie Patterson, and Steve Hinton’s N.A. P-51D Mustang “Wee Willy
II", being flown by Mark Moodie, taking off for an evening formation
flight at the 2010 National Championship Air races in Reno, NV. |
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1943 De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth II “Audrey” (C/N
86508) flypast at the Gathering of the Classics at Edenvale, Ontario on
August 7, 2010. |
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Canadian Armed Forces CC-177 Globemaster III landing on
Runway 24 at CFB Trenton after a training mission on December 9, 2010. |
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Rich Sugden’s Canadair Sabre Mk 5, being flown by Dale
"Snort" Snodgrass, at the 2010 EAA AirVenture airshow in Oshkosh, WI.
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