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 [...]
We would like to thank Chuck Hall and Doug Matthews for allowing us to video their beautiful aircraft in flight. Special thanks to Mike Malak for making the connection for us, Mike’s photography is use as our thumbnails for the video. You can check out more of Mike’s amazing work at Malak Photography.com “Click picture above to play video” “Click picture above to play video” Still Photography by Lisa Plummer Doug taxing back to his hangar after [...]
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 [...]
“click picture above to play video” Media flight, 2012 Jacqueline Cochran Airshow. We would like to thank Sean D. Tucker and Team Oracle for their support in making this video possible. Enjoy! AIRSHOWVID.COM
Palm Springs Air Museum, CA One stop on FiFi’s West Coast tour was the Palm Springs Air Museum. The four day stop was a huge success with large crowds waiting in line to see FiFi and a sold out flight schedule for rides. The Commemorative Air Force who operates FiFi allowed us unrestricted access to FiFi and her flight crew for the purpose of making our video shown below. As an unexpected bonus, Murray Siegel, a former WWII B-29 navigator showed up [...]
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 [...]
Nellis Air Force Base, NV “click picture above to play video” A look from the runway as today’s most high tech military aircraft take part in a RED FLAG mission launch and retrieval from Nellis Air Force Base, NV. A wide selection of current US Air Force jets are shown including the F-22 Raptor, B1-B Lancer as well as aircraft from NATO countries like the Saab JAS-39 Gripen. See what only a few have seen before. A special thanks goes [...]
NAF El Centro, CA “click picture above to play video” Naval Air Facility El Centro holds a PhotoCall twice a year and AIRSHOWVID.COM was allowed to attend the first Photocall of 2013. El Centro is unique for its friendly outreach to the aviation photography community. Very few military bases allow civilians the level of access during flight operations as NAF El Centro. As a bonus, we were allowed access to watch the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels practice for their 2013 [...]
“Click Photo Above to Play Video” Daniel Wotring of Aviator Flight Training was flying his WWII AT-6 during Yanks Air Museum’s “Open Cockpit Day” event. Daniel’s partner in the AT-6 Gary Stark was kind enough to fly his other aircraft as camera ship to allow us to capture this beautiful air to air video. More of this air to air video will be seen in a mini-documentary about Daniel and this AT-6 which is currently in production. Enjoy! [...]
PLANES OF FAME AIR MUSEUM FEB 2, 2013 Each month the Planes of Fame Air Museum holds a Living History event highlighting the history on one of the museum’s aircraft. The February 2013 event focused on the North American F-86 Sabre and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. This video (below) shows the highlights from the event and includes flight footage of the F-86 Sabre and MiG-15. Special thanks to the Planes of Fame Air Museum for camera access to their aircraft during [...]
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. [...]
“Click Photo Above to Play Video” Video shot buy our sister website Photorecon.net during their stay at the 2012 Reno Air Races. Still photographer Dave Budd turned into at videographer for a day and shot some great action video clips from all over Reno’s Stead Field Airport where the races are held. If you are an aviation geek, see how many people you can name in this video, some in this video are giants in the aviation world. Enjoy! AIRSHOWVID.COM
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. [...]
“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” 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 [...]
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