One of my favorite things to photograph, and I have talked about this before, is static aircraft. There is just so many possibilities when it comes to static planes that it makes it so much fun to come up with something new. Now when it comes to approaching a new plane I have “checklist” as [...]

Planes of Fame is renowned for having a number of really cool, rare and flying aircraft. They showed off some of these planes at the airshow and one that really stood out, for obvious reasons, is the P-26 Peashooter. The Peashooter was the first all metal American Fighter and was used all the way up [...]

One of the most iconic of civilian airliners, the Lockheed Constellation stood out amongst it’s competitors even today. Built between 1943-1958 the “Connie” was used for several roles throughout different branches of service. Despite only 856 being produced the Constellation is easily recognizable with it’s twin tail design, four Wright 3350 engines, and dolphin like [...]

The theme of the Planes of Fame Airshow was “Lightning Strikes” celebrating the magnificent P-38 Lightning, or otherwise known as the Fork Tailed Devil. Over 10,000 of these planes were made and today only 7 remain flight worthy, 5 of those were at the Airshow. The Luftwaffe referred to the plane as the fork-tailed devil [...]

After a long day driving back on Monday and getting things sorted out yesterday I finally have time to blog. It was a heck of a good time down in Chino this past weekend surrounded by beautiful aircraft and good friends. I’m still working through the 152gigs of images that i took this weekend but [...]