2014 Warhawk Air Show

[QuietOne]

Oh, there's more, Marko.

Keego, if you search for my handle, there's a number of other photos of airplanes. My husband got into the warbird community around 1983 through what was then the Confederate Air Force. From there, he was invited to join the Mustang Club around 1985 (in Hollister, last time I checked). He's known some of the planes and people a loooooong time. Me, I frustrate the heck out of people. They're interesting objects to photograph, but I really don't care whether the left-hand twist wampus screw was introduced in 1941 or 1935 and a half. But folks do like the angles I come up with on the planes.

There are ultralight groups around here, but I haven't talked with anyone in them recently.

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Ready for more? Of course you are. These are all from the Saturday of the show. The pictures aren't necessarily in the order they were taken, because, well, I'm still kinda tired. First up, a bunch of AT-6 pictures.

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Pilot and passenger in the L-19 (Chet's one of our older volunteers), Boise Bee (she who got us a Corsair for the show), and oh, yeah. Pictures of the Corsair where you can see the whole thing!

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More Corsair pictures. That's my husband on the ladder. The cockpit is a long way off the ground. The pilot, John Hinton, just scrambles up the wing the way it was done back in the day, but we load most of the passengers using the ladder. The last 2 pictures are the beginning of the wings unfolding (no, they don't fly by flapping them!). The rest of the sequence is coming up.

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The rest of the sequence, and rolling out for the next flight.

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The helmet was one of the "arty" shots I did. That blue did tend to blow the channels, though.


A view of the cockpit (I had just enough time between sessions to get up the ladder before the passenger got there)


This particular Corsair wasn't originally a 2-seater. It had a bunch of radio gear in there (really heavy in those days). It was taken out, a crude seat was put in, and loading the passenger is akin to getting into the back seat of a '70s two door car.

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'Nother arty shot. People seemed to like this one.


Can you tell there are planes in the air?


I called this one Forest of Props


Another view of the flight line during the midday break.


And another one of the flight line later in the day. Heller Bust in the front, followed by (of those more or less visible) Speedball Alice, Parrothead, and 23 Skidoo.

[QuietOne]

I think I'll finish for tonight with some in the air shots. Oh, yeah, I got more for Saturday (and Sunday), but it's getting late. Hope you enjoyed what you've seen so far.

[Runmonty]

Great set of photos Quiet one. Dont ask me to comment on each shot, but you have some really good ones there. You are fortunate to have the access that you do to get in close and personal. Thanks for sharing

[QuietOne]

Runmonty, this is the only show where I've ever had that kind of access. The others in the area (defunct, as it happens) were more formal, and the pilots had a limited number of passes for crew. There were a handful of press passes for aviation photographers, too, but that was it. So even with Mike's involvement with the Warhawk, he was usually the one on the other side of the rope at the other shows, and sometimes not even then. Though I did once have a pilot offer me his rather chewed up wrist band because he was leaving early (didn't take it. Everyone knows who the pilots are, the band was different for them, and I'm definitely not one of the pilots!) Even so, yes, I'm lucky to have the access.

There's a *lot* going on, even at this show. It runs tighter than the others - there isn't a "between sessions", because something's taxiing out as something else is taxiing in. As much as I enjoy it while I'm doing it, I wonder at my sanity once I stop moving. And yeah, do it all again the next year. Even with ruthless culling, and with picking a selection for here, there's a lot of photos, since I was shooting over a period of 4 days. Hopefully, people aren't getting bored with it.