I have always been very curious to know how the Spitfires and Hurricanes of the Far East AF did against Japanese aircraft….I have heard mixed results, that the Spittys and Hurris were no match for the Zero and such, and then I’ve heard the reverse….I’d love to know the truth….

I’d also pay good money to know more about Gen. George Kenney’s 5th air force and the B-25’s they modified with 75mm cannons, and tons of .50 cal machine guns, skip bombing tactics and techniques, parafrag attacks…some incredible stuff there, and only one or two books on it!

Let me think more about it…I might come up with something else…

Mark

Great photos, folks….that’s how the Concorde SHOULD have been sent out, WITH HONOR….

I read the other day where one of the nose cones has sold at auction for over $500,000!

Mark

Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer my Canon EOS Rebel II autofocus and some good 100 speed film, it’s what I’ve been using for years and it’s what I’ll continue using for the present….I maintain that all photos are digital once you use your scanner to put them on the computer….I have a 75 to 300 Tamron 4.5 lens and a 35-70 zoom Canon lens for air to air work and am considering an 18-35 lens for some special shots…I use the slower film for bigger enlargements (you should see my walls) of all the warbirds and shows I’ve shot….

As far as as your photographic capabilities, I think they’re wonderful, just a little more practice at centering the shot (the Corsair/Wilcat shot was just a hair out of center) but good stuff…loved the Wildcat shot on the ramp at Yeovilton, great detail and the Wildcat looks so GOOD in those colours! Keep it up, keep practicing…I started 15 years ago photographing warbirds with a manual Ricoh KR-30 and just progressed from there.

Mark

I was dissappointed…I thought it would end in a more spectaular fashion…good effects, though. Money better spent on ‘School of Rock’ with Jack Black, no one I know has NOT liked that movie…it is funny!

Looking forward immensely to Lord of the Rings 3, this is the trilogy to beat as far as I’m concerned.

Mark

I hear you….I had a fairly lame season, a show in Colorado Springs that was a bust, a fairly decent Longmont fly-in, then a trip to Oshkosh which was great…but that was it….a planned trip to Reno never materialized due to lack of funds, so the season just kind of ended with a whimper….looks like it’s more airshow videos and checking this site to see what the latest is from the warbird world…probably won’t have an event until the Snowbusters pancake fly-in here in Greeley in March, and that’s always iffy…hence the ‘snow’ part…

Y’all are all invited, you know….warbirds preferred….Bring your appetite, hot coffee included…

Mark

I was riding around in my truck at work yesterday morning when we passed a school, and all the kids were outside holding up their own hand drawn ‘Thank You’ signs for all the veterans, and towards the end of the block there was the school band playing patriotic songs while kids nearby waved flags….VERY cool, nothing I’d seen before matched it….the vets had to have loved it, I know I did (ex Coast Guard)….later in the day we got buzzed by two Colorado ANG F-16’s that flew right over the Memorial to the Wars here in Greeley….
Semper Paratus,

Mark

Rats…..I saw ‘Big Guns’, I thought they were re-commissioning the Iowa class Battleships again…..

Someone SHOULD approach Branson, I think that would be a great idea…he might even go for it. When do we hear the Lottery commission’s answer? I would love to be able to think I might actually get to England again some day and be able to see this baby fly….