Well, the last image was an interesting experiment! It had more views than my aviations ones, yet it had only a fraction of the comments! Soooo, back to aviation! Taken at the Planes of Fame Museum (Chino Airport, California) December 3rd, 2005. For more, see http://www.warbird-photos.com Taken during the Air-to-Air session I had with the SBD Dauntless and P-40 Warhawk after the Planes of Fame Museum Monthly Event ('Days of Infamy'). This is a Mitsubishi A6M5 'Zeke' Zero. It's one of the most special aircraft in the Planes of Fame inventory as it is the only flyable authentic Axis aircraft from World War 2 in existance. All other Axis aircraft alive in the world, which I'm pretty sure still holds true today, are not totally authentic. Here's some more information on the Zero which I included in the 'Combat Veterans' photo I posted a few nights ago: Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero - probably the most famous in the Planes of Fame collection as it's the only ALL original Zero in the world that flies and is the only authentic flying axis aircraft left in the world. The A6M5 still carries the same Sakae 13 engine, and aside from the removal of weapons and some minor faa required equipment changes, it's all original Zero. The Zero was the 2,357th Zero to be produced by the Nakajima production line and was sent to serve with the 261st Japanese Naval Air Corps and was eventually stationed at Asilito Airfield on Saipan as air defense for many islands. After the US Marines overran Saipan on June 15, 1944, they captured the airfield and a dozen intact Zeros. They were sent to San Diego, CA and 4 of them, including ours, was rebuilt from the trip back to flying status and split between the Army Air Force and Navy. Our Zero was given to the Navy and the 190 hours it sent in US Navy hands it was flown by test pilots, fighter pilots, and civilian pilots including Charles A. Lindbergh. It was then set as surplus and originally going to be a gate guard at an air force museum, but was instead sold for scrap. The founder of the museum bought the Zero and stored it in his backyard, since at the time he had not started the museum! It was restored back to flying status 1978 and immediately did a 6 month tour in Japan. Camera is a Canon Rebel XT EOS 350D DSLR (8mp) with a Canon 28-105mm USM lens. Image was reduced in size.