Warbirds at the California Capital Airshow 2011

[Jerry O'Neill]

Just a few photos of some of the warbirds that showed up at Mather Field near Sacramento last weekend.
Steve Hinton arrived in this P-40C...it's first airshow!












Allied Fighter's P-38 flown by Steve Hinton during the show.


Steve flew the Heritage Flight on Sunday in the P-38.


CAF Bearcat.


CAF Hellcat with Steve Barber at the helm.


B-25 Old Glory didn't fly but was static all weekend.




Tora arrives on cue!










Hellcat at Sunset.


U-2 Ready to depart on Monday Morning.


The mighty C-17 Globemaster III!


USCG C-130H performs 9/11 tribute flower petal drop. 12,000 flowers were dumped out of the back over the airport.


Great show and it was safe.
Blue skies,
Jerry

[Mike]

Rod Lewis' P-40C, not Friedkin's.

[JDK]

Nice pics, love the Hellcat at sunset one!

BTW, first N American show for the P-40C - for those of us that travelled to Omaka, NZ, at Easter, it's old news.

Thanks for sharing!

[Jerry O'Neill]

Correct James! First American show since arriving on our shores!
It's at Reno now and hoping for the Rolls Royce heritage Trophy!.
Jerry

[LadyO2Pilot]

Beautiful photos, Jerry !!!

[Warbird Kid]

As always great stuff Jerry. Im surprised you had a chance to take all those shots since you must have been as busy as heck! Wish I could have been there this year buddy.

[Jerry O'Neill]

Thanks for the comments.
If you notice, there's not a lot of people in the background or foreground. I only get time to take pics when they arrive or after hours. The Tora stuff was a fluke since Air Boss sent me out to the runway and I had my camera with me in the cart. I only had to pay attention to Boss on the radio.
Who knows, it could've been you Chris!
Jerry

[Warbird Kid]

They had that beautiful P-40 just sitting there, and they weren't comfortable with putting her in the Tora display?! She's made for it!!

[steve dickey]

Awesome Tora Zero close up!!

[Dwhart24]

I have to agree that on of my favorites is the Hellcat at sunset shot. The B-25 with the golden hour sunlight shots are nice too. Great pics!

[Jerry O'Neill]

Thanks for the comments. Here's a few more...

C-5 Maw!


Here's two more sunset's I took on Saturday night.

F6F at Rest.


F8F ready for bed.

[Ploesti]

Hope to see RL's P-40 with an AtoA w GG soon. Wow! would that be nice

[mustangdriver]

Thank you for posting! Those are beautiful. I love the Hellcat and Bearcat at sunset.

[Pat Carry]

VERY nice photos! The P-40 is looking too good.

[Chappie]

Fanatastic photos! The P-40 is goregeous!!!


Chappie