Flying High

We headed to the Camarillo Air Show on Saturday, where we enjoyed flying displays of WWII-era planes, modern stunt planes, and the latest in tilt rotor technology.

It was warm, breezy and sunny, and one of the vendor booths offered inexpensive hats. The girls and I all bought a new hat, each with a handy chin strap. We're posing in front of a P-51 Mustang.

The V-22 Osprey was the tilt rotor craft, kind of a hybrid between an airplane and helicopter. Used by the U.S. Marine Corps, it's a vehicle I've heard about for years, and was fascinating to see overhead.

Stacey's company provides some of the hydraulics for it.






The stunt planes wowed the crowd with their aerobatics.

Nice photo, huh? Thanks to Aunt Patty for supplying nearly all of these photos. We me up with her and Uncle Bill, along with Grandma and Grandpa, at the show.






Violet especially loved this purple stunt plane - the color isn't quite visible here - which had a female pilot.

Uncle Bill and Aunt Patty's friend Lt. Hal Wilder was a special guest at the air show, where he had a table set up in the WWII hangar, with his memorabilia and self-published memoirs.

Hal, as he asks to be called, was a B-24 Liberator bombardier in Europe. Below are his cotter pins, from one of the bombs.

 The B-25 Mitchell Bomber, the  WWII plane that took part in the Doolittle Raid on Japan,  participated in a series of fly-bys at the air show.

Here is the B-25, flanked by various WWII-era fighter planes. They were beautiful to watch overhead.











This P-51 Mustang  has the red tail markings of the famous Tuskegee Fighter Squadron, made up of African-Americans during the segregated days of WWII.

We all enjoyed our afternoon at the air show, and afterwards went to Uncle Bill and Aunt Patty's for dinner, with Hal and his son. It was a special time together.