Longing to Fly Again... by velocicrapper

Photography • Military • posted on Jul 10, 2003

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::: Part 38 of a series of Warbird Panorama Photos ::: Taken at the Planes of Fame Museum at the Chino Airport, California. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- For more warbird images, please visit http://www.warbirds.n3.net --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aircraft are (Left to Right): Lockheed P-38L Lightning (Flyable, but the owner isn't rated to fly it. World Famous pilot Steve Hinton flew it to the museum), rare bird J2F-6 Duck (flies often, just restored recently!), behind it is the tail of a RAF P-51A Mustang (trivia - Did you know the famous P-51 Mustang was originally for the British? It was the RAF that put the first order in to North American to design a new fighter!), the P-51A is flyable, but currently undergoing an complete overhaul. Waaaaay in back, you can't really see it except for one part of the stripe, is an A-36 Mustang, the very FIRST design for the P-51 Mustang. And behind that you can just see the tip of a silver wing sticking up, which is a F8F Bearcat under restoration. Two bigger aircraft in the middle as well as the smaller blue racer I'm actually not familiar with! But the big silver medium bomber is a B-25J Mitchell, who I've posted here many times. She's called 'Photo Fanny' and was one of the B-25s in the Disney Pearl Harbor movie that went on the Doolittle Raid. She was also in Forever Young as the main star near the end of the movie (that's Steve Hinton flying her onto a real California coastal cliff!). She flies what seems almost weekley! Finally, we have a Laird Turner Meteor racer with a Wasp engine, she is flyable, but the runway is not long enough for her to take off. I hear she needs a pretty long runway, more so than the Chino Airport has. This panorama was taken with a Minolta Dimage 7hi (5 Megapixel SLR) and is made up of 5 shots.