P-38J Lightning at Apple Valley Airshow

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Planes of Fame P-38J on a flyby at the 2023 Apple Valley Airshow. Some details on the plane from the Planes of Fame website:

The Museum’s P-38J, built in Burbank, California and delivered into service in May 1944, has the distinction of being the 5,018th P-38 built – halfway to the total number of “Lightnings” produced.  It was assigned to the 483rd Air Base Squadron in Santa Maria, California – a Replacement Training Unit providing combat crew training for P-38s during WWII.  In September 1945, the aircraft transferred to the Hancock College of Aeronautics where it was used to instruct maintenance personnel.   The Museum acquired the aircraft in 1959.  In 1988, it was restored to flight thanks to a generous donation from Bob and Josie Pond. The museum’s P-38 was used in the filming of Iron Eagle III.

San Diego Airport Plane Spotting

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Lufthansa flight landing at the San Diego Airport. I was able to shoot this out of the back window of my hotel while in San Diego. We stayed a couple of nights at the Porto Vista hotel in Little Italy. I wouldn’t recommend the hotel as it had seen better days and needs a renovation. However it was nice that the fifth floor window on the corner the back window had no screen and allowed me to catch flights as they were landing at the aiport.

Plane Spotting at Cable Airport

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At the Cable Airport in Upland shooting the comings and going of planes. A couple of Cessna’s and an RV-8 kit plane above. Always love the background of the mountains on a clear day. Shot with the A7R5 with the 24-240 lens. At this airport you are able to get close enough that you don’t need to a super long lens to shoot here.

2024 Pacific Airshow

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Well the airshow was a bust, there was so much fog and the fog was so low that no one could really fly. I wasn’t there on Friday, but heard that the show wasn’t great, I was there all day on Saturday and didn’t see a single thing. I could hear the planes, just couldn’t see anything. I went again on Sunday and spent most of the day and then gave up and decided to go and catch planes coming and going from Los Alamitos Base. At least I got some shots for the weekend, but wasn’t at all anything like I was expecting. Or course managed to see a raptor, just not the metallic kind flying around.