We left Ontario (near Chino) on the Sunday to go to relations In Phoenix and stopped for a couple of hours at what i think was the best museum of the visit, Palm Springs and discovered G-FIRE
G-FIRE should be red!!!!
Friday practice for the airshow. Was told that there is usually more flying on the Friday than this year
Got to say the camera really struggled with the light and heat haze
Only the one tonight, the gate guard which looks to be in really nice condition, thats our taxi, on the clock waiting for me in the back ground!
These were on the USS Hornet at Alameda, the opposite side of the bay to San Fransico and a bit difficult to get to without a car and even if you did its hardly advertised or signed. We had to catch a ferry from Fisherman’s Wharf to Oakland, get off at the stop before, Alameda which is nothing more than a car park, call a taxi from a card posted on the back of the toilet block and hope he would turn up, which he did. The driver was from “Friendly Cabs” and fine with us but even he had trouble finding the carrier which is on the far side of the old Naval Air Station Oakland. From the time we caught the Ferry to arriving at the carrier took an hour and half but is well worth it, make sure you have a taxi number for when you leave!
USS Hornet
F-4 J Phantom II, think this was the last F4 to take off from a carrier
Lockheed S-3 B Viking
Lockheed S-3 B Viking
Lockheed S-3 B Viking
Grumman F-14A Tomcat
Grumman F-14A Tomcat
F-4 J Phantom II
T-28 B Trojan
Grumman F-14A Tomcat
Lockheed S-3 B Viking
and a few from below deck, not very good as i forget to change the settings to take into consideration the lights……
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