At the Southern California CAF today we had a memorial service for two of our long-time members. At the end of the service we had a couple of flybys, first by four SNJs (two of ours, two from the Condor Squadron out of Van Nuys), then by four of our fighters.
I was an idiot and didn’t bring any of my good cameras (um, yeah, maybe that is a sign…) but I did have my point & shoot camera and my iPhone. Maybe I’m not completely brain dead. Yet.
This 2:27 video clip follows the landing of the fighters as they’re taxiing back to our hanger. First is the P-51, next the F8F Bearcat, followed by the Spitfire, with the F6F Hellcat parking last. On the ramp in the background you can also see our C-46 “China Doll” parked alongside a Grumman HU-16 Albatross (which is not a CAF plane). Between “China Doll” and the hanger you can occasionally glimpse our PT-19.
Viewing suggestion — full screen, turned up LOUD. But maybe that’s just me.
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Nice job Paul, I follow your blog often. Isn’t the rest of the quote “to be afraid of the dark”? John
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Thanks, John. Yes, that’s the quote, from the Sarah Williams poem “The Old Astronomer (To his Pupil)”
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