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A light painting image of an A-4C Skyhawk, on display at the Fort Worth Aviation Museum. Comet NEOWISE makes a surprise appearance on the right of frame, beneath a cloud.
A second RCAF CF-18 Hornet performing the CF-18 Demo in the evening show of the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow. It cool seeing the demo at night, the Hornet's afterburners could be fully seen. It was a loud demo too, the pilot didn't hold back.
My thanks to Kid Deuce for both the airplane photo and the car photo. I thought they would work great together so I put them together with a new background.
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Captain Bertrand "Bubu" Butin the 2022 Rafale Solo Display pilot. Arriving at @Francazal Airport on Friday and doing his recon run ahead of the airshow this weekend. Pulling G's and generating some nice vapor!
Spitfire AR501 is a fully airworthy Mk Vc variant from 1942, now part of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden. It served with No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF during WWII, escorting USAAF bombers over Europe. After the war, it became a training aid before being restored to flying condition. With its classic elliptical wingtips and wartime paint scheme, AR501 remains one of the finest examples of a flying Spitfire and is a regular performer at Shuttleworth airshows.
Classical French fighterplane design, they loved their darts.
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The Hawker Hunter T7 is painted in the colours of XL571 to represent the leading aircraft of the Blue Diamonds display team.
The Blue Diamonds were the official display team of the Royal Air Force, RAF, between 1961 and 1964 and still holds the record for the largest number of aircraft looping together, 18!
Captured the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, Yorkshire, England, UK.
A US Navy E/A18G Growler flying during the Growler demo at the 2025 Abbotsford Airshow. It was loud and the pilots didn't hold back. I can still hear the afterburners when I look at these shots.
-- 1944 North American P-51D Mustang --
‧ Fixed wing single engine (1 seat / 1 engine)
‧ Manufacturer: North American Aviation
‧ Serial Number: 44-73990
‧ Engine: Packard-Rolls Royce V1650 SERIES Merlin 12-cylinder liquid cooled producing 1,490hp
‧ Length: 32 ft 3 in
‧ Wingspan: 37 ft
‧ Height: 13 ft 4.5 in w/tail wheel on ground, vertical propeller blade
‧ Max takeoff weight: 12,100 lbs
‧ Propellers: 4-bladed Hamilton Standard constant-speed, variable-pitch, 11 ft 2 in diameter
‧ Maximum speed: 440 mph
‧ Cruise speed: 362 mph
‧ Stall speed: 100 mph
‧ Range: 1,650 miles with external tanks
‧ Service ceiling: 41,900 ft
‧ Guns: 6 × .50 caliber AN/M2 Browning machine guns with 1,840 total rounds (380 rounds for each on the inboard pair and 270 rounds for each of the outer two pair)
‧ Rockets: 6 or 10 × 5.0 in T64 HVAR rockets
‧ Bombs: 1 × 100 lb or 250 lb bomb or 500 lb bomb on hardpoint under each wing
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a team headed by James H. Kindelberger of North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British Purchasing Commission. The Purchasing Commission approached North American Aviation to build Curtiss P-40 fighters under license for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Rather than build an old design from another company, North American Aviation proposed the design & production of a more modern fighter. The prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940, 102 days after the contract was signed, and first flew on 26 October. The Mustang was designed to use the Allison V-1710 engine, which had limited high-altitude performance in its earlier variants. The aircraft was first flown operationally by the RAF as a tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter-bomber (Mustang Mk I). Replacing the Allison with a Rolls-Royce Merlin resulted in the P-51B/C (Mustang Mk III) model, and transformed the aircraft's performance at altitudes above 15,000 ft without sacrificing range and allowing it to compete with the German Luftwaffe's fighters. The definitive version, the P-51D (as seen in the photograph above), was powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a license-built version of the two-speed, two-stage supercharged Merlin 66, and was armed with six .50 caliber AN/M2 Browning machine guns.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Val-Halla, a restored P51 Mustang, flying at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It was supposed to be taking part in the USAF Heritage Flyover alongside the F35 Lightning II but the F35 hand to land due to technical problems so Val-Halla flew on it's own while the RCAF Snowbirds prepared for their performance. Val-Halla was named for both it's pilots Bill Anders wife Valerie and for the Black Knights P51 squadron that was stationed at Keflavik, Iceland during the Cold War.
The old Airfix kit. Decals are a combination of the original kit decal and Techmod 72013 Hawker Hurricane Mk. I.
This model depicts airplane RF-E/P3700, flown during the Battle of Britain by Pilot Sgt. Kazimierz Wünsche of 303 Polish Squadron, Northolt. During an engagement on September 9, 1940, Pilot Sgt. Wünsche shot down two German planes: an Me109 and an He111. During the engagement, Pilot Sgt. Wünsche was himself shot down. He survived with injuries and burns, and returned to combat after hospitalization.