Ontos's Photos

[ontos]

Thanks Vic and Eric, Vic from my understanding the paint is as it was when found in the lake, here is a good video of the aircraft after it arrived at Chino.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAgsZO8ifjU

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots Merv!

 

[Airframes]

Great stuff Merv, thanks for posting.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks to be in remarkably good nick.

 

[ontos]

Glad you all liked the pictures, here are some more taken the same day at "The Planes of Fame".

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Excellent photos Merv! I didn't that there was a He-162 there as well. And I love the Thunderbolt.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Great pics Merv.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots Merv!

 

[ontos]

Thanks for looking at the pictures I am now following the beginning of life of two baby hummingbirds who's mother made a nest in my Juniper bush. I will try and keep a photo update on their growth.

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

Cool shots at PoF Merv. From the size of the crowd in the pictures around the He-162 it looks like you stayed around for quite a while after the Fw-190 flight.

The P-59 is being restored in the hangar behind the He-162 and that is where you probably would have found me.


Wheels

 

[Shinpachi]

Your photos are so impressive I forget to comment soon.
Nice shots Merv!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I know it's California but a couple of baby chicks so early in the year. Is that usual?

 

[ontos]

Actually Vic, I seem to get these chicks year round, especially with this crazy weather we are having.

Hey Wheels, my daughter and I walked all through that hanger, we must have just missed each other.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots Merv! Looking forward to the process pics of the hummingbirds.

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

Glad you all liked the pictures, here are some more taken the same day at "The Planes of Fame".

I was just looking at the pictures again Ontos. Aren't the P-47 and the V-1 at Yanks ?


Wheels

 

[ontos]

Your right Wheels, those two were taken at the "Yanks" museum, I forgot to mention that My daughter and I took a wrong turn by signs that said "Special Event" leading to the Yanks Museum, they had three of the "Tuskegee Airmen" CPT. Claude Rowe, SSG. Buford Johnson and LTC. Bob Friend talk about the discrimination, patriotism and heart of the "Tuskegee Airmen" it was an inspiring lecture.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I bet that was very interesting and that's a good couple of shots of them to Merv. Thank you for sharing that.

 

[ontos]

It was very inspiring Aaron, one thing that was said I never heard before, the Tuskegee Airmen had won the first "Top Gun" competition ever held. In 1949 the winner of the competition was listed as unknown in the Air Force Almanac, the trophy somehow had disappeared before it could be given to the winner and as usual records lost. The trophy was finally found in a closet hidden away in 2004, then placed in the Air Force museum.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

It's ashame things were the way they were back then. Fortunately they are much, much better today.

 

[Gnomey]

Bet that was a good lecture to listen to Merv! Nice shots of them too.