Glacier Girl Warbirds thundered over the Chino Airport May 4-5, 2013 as the Planes of Fame Air Museum held its annual air show. This year’s theme was “Lightning Strikes Chino” as five out of seven flyable P-38 Lightnings in the world today gathered together. This was the first time in over 50 years this many P-38 Lightnings flew in one place. One of the five P-38 Lightnings was Glacier Girl owned by Rob Lewis. On 15 July 1942, due to [...]
Riverside Municipal Airport, CA The 2013 Riverside Airshow was held April 6th at the Riverside Municipal Airport and attracted a crowd of 90,000 airshow fans. As with many air shows this year military aircraft were noticeably missing from the flight line. WWII aircraft owned and operated by individuals and organizations filled in for the current military aircraft. Aerobatic acts carried most of the show with performances from Tim Weber, John Collver, Frank Donnelly and Jon Melby. Silver Wings Wingwalking also [...]
The 2013 NAF El Centro Airshow took place under the confusion of sequestration. The airshow is the largest event in the Imperial Valley with an estimated 35,000 visitors seeing the one day airshow. During the weeks leading up to the event many last minute changes from static display aircraft to military performances had to be accommodated. Filling holes in the flight schedule became a challenging job for the airshow staff but after long days of working around the 10 to [...]
Jan. 12-13 Cable Airport On a very cold weekend for Southern California, thousands braved the low temperatures to see one of the first airshows of the 2013 season. The 38th annual Cable Air Show kicks off the airshow season in California with it’s unique mix of powerful warbirds and graceful vintage aircraft . The Cable Airport is a unique place to have an airshow, easy to access, no long walks and easy to find a good seat to watch all the action. [...]
The 2012 Jacqueline Cochran Air Show this year focused on aerobatic performers like Sean D. Tucker, Jon Melby, Tim Weber and Melissa Pemberton. It is very rare to have this many top aerobatic performers at one air show. There were also warbird performers like Planes of Fame’s Steve Hinton flying his F-86 Saber and John Collver flying his AT-6 named “War Dog”. Famed aviator Clay Lacy rounded out the list of performers with him flying his 1960 era Lear Jet. [...]
PART ONE “Click Photo Above to Play Video” This is part one of our multi part Internet documentary on the 2012 Copperstate Fly-In held Oct. 24-27 at the Casa Grande Airport in Casa Grande, Arizona. The video is hosted by Steve Kates who is a national radio & TV personality. You may know Steve as “Dr. Sky” who is on radio shows like Coast to Coast and currently has his own radio show in Phoenix, Arizona. The documentary gives you [...]
“Click Photo to Play Video” This video is our video coverage of the 2012 Apple Valley Air Show held Oct. 13th at the Apple Valley Airport. We decided this year to cover the event as a mini movie, something new in our airshow coverage format. This video would have not been possible without the help of the Planes of Fame Air Museum allowing AIRSHOWVID.COM special camera access to their aircraft and sharing their air to air footage shot before and [...]
The 2012 MCAS Miramar Air Show is one of the premier military air shows in the world today. Nowhere else will you see the variety of air and ground military assets demonstrated together as only the United States Marine Corps can do. The Marine’s expertise is most displayed during the MAGTF which stands for (Marine Air-Ground Task Force) demonstration or as the Marines like to say “an explosive display of Marine Corps power”. The MAGTF are self-sustaining combined arms forces [...]
“Click Photo to Play Video” The aircraft arrivals for the 2012 Great Park Air Show took place Friday afternoon and Saturday morning before the air show started. These arrivals were not open to the general public but AIRSHOWVID.COM was allowed to shoot video of these beautiful aircraft as they arrived before being placed on static display. Many beautiful general aviation aircraft flew in for static display as well as military aircraft from MCAS Miramar. World War II aircraft were represented [...]
“Click Photo to Play Video” Our 2012 Wings Over Gillespie air show coverage starts with a look at the F2G-1 Super Corsair Piloted by Larry Perkins. Larry was kind enough to let AIRSHOWVID.COM interview him and tell us about this very rare aircraft. This aircraft is owned by Ron Pratt and was recently restored to its 1949 air racing configuration. Only 10 of these aircraft were made and only two still fly. We here at AIRSHOWVID.COM would like to thank [...]
WINGS AND ROTORS AIR MUSEUM “Click Photo to Play Video” We start out our 2012 March Field AirFest video coverage with an interview with the Wings & Rotors Air Museum. Shayne Meder talks to our own Julie Sims about their Bell UH-1B Huey Gunship that was on display at this year’s March AirFest. This is one bad helo with some serious attitude on display. This is the only flying version of this model today. We would like to thank the [...]
DAY ONE HIGHLIGHTS “Click Photo to Play Video” Our video coverage of the 2012 Planes of Fame Air Show starts with highlights from day one. The weather Saturday morning was perfect, bright sun and cool temps made walking around the flight line and looking over these beautiful warbirds a joy. This year’s show was titled “1942-Turning The Tide” but the overall format of the airshow was very much the same as in years past. One of the big draws at [...]
“Click Picture to Play Video” We arrived early at the Riverside Municipal Airport in Riverside, CA only to be greeted by light rain and low overcast. This was the 20th year of this event and the organizer had hoped for a crowd pushing over 100,000 to attend. Due to the constant light rain fall we did not pull out our video equipment to shoot the aircraft on the flight line but instead staked out a position near the airport’s traffic [...]
“Play Video Click On Photo” The 2012 Cable Air Show kicks off the air show season here in the United States. This small privately owned airport located in Upland CA. offers up close viewing of all the aircraft being displayed and flown during the event. A far reaching choice of small general aviation aircraft and military aircraft can be seen landing just before the airspace around the airport is closed. One of the BIG hits at this years event was [...]
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