Chino airshow

[yellowtail3]

There's going to be a great airshow next weekend in Chino. I went Saturday - I've been several times now, on this CA gig - and what a collection. They'll be flying most of them.

I walked out of a hanger just in time to have a TBM and a Corsair (the oldest still flying) taxi right up to me. The photo of the F4U was taken while the engine was still ticking. Cool. Got some oil from an R2800 on my hands..

They'll be celebrating Navy air... Hellcat, Wildcat, TBM, Corsair, Dauntless all fly. And they'll be flying the Zero...

[guzzijohn]

Sounds like it will be a good one.
GuzziJohn

[Pat/Rick]

Sounds like a good time. Have seen most on the list you gave. I can't recall ever seeing a Dauntless. So far, my favorite Air Museum is in Tucson, Pima Air Museum (Plan a day). The Tillamook (OR) has some choice aircraft as well. Including the only Martin "Mauler" anywhere.

guzzi, the Pima Air Museum has a flight deck from a WACO Glider. Pretty neat stuff.

[guzzijohn]

guzzi, the Pima Air Museum has a flight deck from a WACO Glider. Pretty neat stuff.

If I recall they also had a TG3 (training glider #3) in a hanging display. I took most of my training in one of those.
GuzziJohn

[mcwoodduck]

I have been to that show a number of times and for a while the Quail Unlimited Sporting clays shoot on the same weekend at Rahagues and while shooting B-25's P-51's Japaneese Betty bombers, and grumman Hellcats would buzz the range as well as F-16's and other jets and prop planes.
But the show is well worth the trip if you can make it to Chino.

[powderman]

I always wanted to see an airshow but never have. They have one in Lou every year but would have to be in downtown Lou to see it, I hate crowds. the only ww11 warbirds I've seen were on the Yorktown down at Patriots point around Charleston NC. POWDERMAN. 

[yellowtail3]

Sounds like a good time. Have seen most on the list you gave. I can't recall ever seeing a Dauntless.

I've attached a photo of their Dauntless; I think they're flying it this weekend. The Zero is the only one in the world flying with a Sakae engine.

I have been to that show a number of times and for a while the Quail Unlimited Sporting clays shoot on the same weekend at Rahagues and while shooting B-25's P-51's Japaneese Betty bombers... But the show is well worth the trip if you can make it to Chino.

Sounds like fun. Couldn't have been a Betty, though; there are no surviving G4Ms. PoF has a crashed one, but there isn't a whole one in the world.

[Pat/Rick]

Would be a fun trip just for the airshow. Last one I was at was a few years ago at Fairchild AFB (Spokane) when my son was stationed there. Found it amusing that some of the planes that were in common usage when I was in the military were now on display and obsolete. Remember as a young lad going to the Paine Field airshow near Everett,WA, F102's, Globemasters, C119's and assorted other civilian aircraft.  Might have to try to make one this year.

[Glanceblamm]

Good post yellowtail3....I might have a picture of that F4U in my archives from the 2003 Osh Kosh Wisconson show. No time to look right now but I will try to remember.

[guzzijohn]

One of the best air shows I was at was in Topeka in the early 80s. Part of the show was a 50 plane formation fly over of all WWII era planes led by three B17s! At the same show there was a low level mock dogfight between a F-4 Phantom and an F-16 (you can probably guess how that came out) and between a F-15 and a Harrier. Also Bob Hover was performing with a P-51 when an oil line broke in the middle of the routine. No problem of ol Bob, he just shut her down, glided it in and rolled it over to the plane's exhibit spot. Talk about energy management, he had it down to a fine art!
GuzziJohn

[yellowtail3]

Bob Hoover is an amazing guy. I remember seeing his Shrike Commander routine at Miramar when I was about ten - pouring tea while performing a 1-G roll, followed by his both-engines-out aerobatic routine. Long time ago; the Blue Angels were still phlying phabulous phantoms.

Talked to the guys at Chino... they said the Zero would do a mock dogfight with a Mustang. I say keep it under 175 knots, and that Mustang will be meat on the table for the Mitsubishi....

[mcwoodduck]

Sounds like a good time. Have seen most on the list you gave. I can't recall ever seeing a Dauntless.

I've attached a photo of their Dauntless; I think they're flying it this weekend. The Zero is the only one in the world flying with a Sakae engine.

I have been to that show a number of times and for a while the Quail Unlimited Sporting clays shoot on the same weekend at Rahagues and while shooting B-25's P-51's Japaneese Betty bombers... But the show is well worth the trip if you can make it to Chino.

Sounds like fun. Couldn't have been a Betty, though; there are no surviving G4Ms. PoF has a crashed one, but there isn't a whole one in the world.

Maybe I am calling it the wrong name.  it was the dive bomber from, Tora, Tora, Tora with the fixed landing gear.
May have also been another plane mocked up to look like one.

[yellowtail3]

Sounds like a good time. Have seen most on the list you gave. I can't recall ever seeing a Dauntless.

I've attached a photo of their Dauntless; I think they're flying it this weekend. The Zero is the only one in the world flying with a Sakae engine.

I have been to that show a number of times and for a while the Quail Unlimited Sporting clays shoot on the same weekend at Rahagues and while shooting B-25's P-51's Japaneese Betty bombers... But the show is well worth the trip if you can make it to Chino.

Sounds like fun. Couldn't have been a Betty, though; there are no surviving G4Ms. PoF has a crashed one, but there isn't a whole one in the world.

Maybe I am calling it the wrong name.  it was the dive bomber from, Tora, Tora, Tora with the fixed landing gear.
May have also been another plane mocked up to look like one.

Gotcha - that would be an Aichi D3A, the Val of wartime infamy. Planes of Fame in Chino actually has one under restoration; there are none flying anywhere. In fact, I don't think there's a more whole airframe than what PoF is working on. The one you saw was likely a T-6 made to look like one, as you mention.

[mcwoodduck]

Are/ did you fly in from the Old North State for the show?

[yellowtail3]

Are/ did you fly in from the Old North State for the show?

Naw, I'm here for work, doing some course development work for an SAP project. It'll be wrapping up the next few weeks, then back to NC where my daughters are waiting for me.

[powderman]

The one modern plane I'd love to see up close is the a10 warthog. POWDERMAN. 

[Glanceblamm]

The one modern plane I'd love to see up close is the a10 warthog. POWDERMAN. 

I saw my first warthog at a Springfield, IL show powderman. My first thought of seeing it on the tarmac was how the thing could even fly?

It was to be part of the show though and I think that they had it billed as a craft that could get in to an anti-aircraft site, take it out, and then escape! (please correct me if necessary)

When it did fly, the aerobatics were unreal on the combat manuverability and at low altitudes to boot!...to be there, you would thing that it would stall n fall but it seemed to defy physics and was the highlight of that show for sure.

[yellowtail3]

Well, went to the Chino show yesterday, got sunburned despite using sunscreen.

Grand time. At one point 27 or so warbirds flew overhead. Saw flying... Yak-9, FW-190, A6M5 Zero, and a Firefly (loudest). Several each of TBMs, Hellcats, Corsairs, Bearcats, and... a Dauntless. A flock of Mustangs. A B-25 (Navy variety, actually). A MiG-15 & F-86, and beautifully restored TA-4J.

Lots of photos. Here's the Dauntless after flying.

click image to see full-sized, and find the Corsairs...


a few more photos:
http://tinyurl.com/6fmhnf4

[guzzijohn]

Looked like a great time. It is a thrill every time, can't get enough it!
GuzziJohn