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A restored Mikoyan Mig-17 Fresco flying during the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It was unique to see this Cold War era jet. Second time that I've ever seen one of these.
Wikipedia:
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. It is an advanced development of the similar looking MiG-15 of the Korean War. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.
MiG-17s first saw combat in 1958 in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and later proved to be an effective threat against more modern supersonic fighters of the United States in the Vietnam War.
A stirring sight at the Battle of Britain Air Show — the famous Big Wing recreated over Duxford. The original Big Wing was a controversial tactic during the Battle of Britain, massing multiple squadrons of Spitfires and Hurricanes into one large formation. Here, seeing these classic warbirds flying together in tribute brings the scale, sound and spirit of 1940 to life.
A46-139 “Phooey”, a flying replica of the Australian CA-13 Boomerang, recreated using original parts and a T-6 Texan airframe. First flown in 1991, Phooey honours the ingenuity and courage of WWII Australian pilots. A remarkable warbird in action!
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.
Another image from the 999 Rescue Day that was held on 10/07/10 not far from my home. This Spitfire from the BBMF flew over the crowd a couple of times. Still love to see and hear these planes flying.
This was about the only half decent image I got from the fly past. I took about 15 shots all told. It was a nice sunny afternoon, although the only cloud in the sky at the time seemed to be just behind the plane for this shot. To give the image a bit more 'oomph', I converted the one image to HDR/Tone Mapped. Then on that resulting image I used two layers on CS4. The top layer I added a sepia photo filter then used the eraser to rub out the sepia on the plane to let the underlying blue colour of the aircraft come through.
A restored Curtiss P-40N Kittyhawk (1943) at Vintage Wings of Canada in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
The Curtiss P-40N Kittyhawk was manufactured in 1943 by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. It bears the serial number 399 and is registered under the call sign C-FVWC. Close to 14,000 Kittyhawks and their variants were built during World War II.
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.
German-registered Corsair D-FCOR ('Devotion') displaying at the Shuttleworth Collection's 2025 Flying Festival airshow.
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II & 3 North American Aviation P-51 Mustang's @ 2019 Heritage Flight Training.
A Vought F4U Corsair flying in the 2026 Abbotsford Airshow. One of three Warbirds that flew in the flyover. This is one of my favorite planes from WWII and it's always a delight to see one fly.
This painting by Darryl Legg depicts 'PUDGY', a P-38H Lightning flown by Thomas McGuire on his 14th mission, escorting B-24s on 29 August, 1943. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x 12". In my personal collection
A Vought F4U Corsair flying in a demo the 2026 Abbotsford Airshow. One of three Warbirds that flew in the flyover. It flew a solo demo later on in the airshow and was fantastic, pilot handled the old warbird well. This is one of my favorite planes from WWII and it's always a delight to see one fly.
A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet on the static display at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow.
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.
An F-4 Phantom at the Air Zoo, a rival of the MIG-21. The F-4 was, by today's standards, not very manueverable, but it was fast! It's top speed was a shade over Mach 2.2, and it was a cool-looking jet.
The classic kit by Revell, originally released in 1957.
This model depicts Fokker Dreidecker 1 (Fokker Dr.1, 'Triplane 1' in English), serial number 425/17.
Serial number 425/17 was one of several Fokker Dr.1s flown by Baron Manfred von Richthofen, and was the one in which he was shot down and killed near Vaux-sur-Somme, France, by British ace Arthur Roy Brown on April 21, 1918.
There is apparently not enough photographic evidence of this aircraft to be able to accurately portray its paint scheme. Manfred von Richthofen described it as a 'rotes flugzeug [red aircraft],' but that doesn't automatically mean it was wholly red.
Because of this, I didn’t try to model it according to the best educated guesses, but instead modeled it the way it has classicly been depicted.
With the exception of the addition of some 10- and 20-lb test black fishing line for rigging and control cables, I built it pretty much straight out of the box.
For painting and finishing, I used:
Revell RVL-34136 Carmine Red
Revell 36188 Matt Ochre
Tamiya TS-68 Wooden Deck Tan
Tamiya TS-6 Matte Black
Tamiya TS-26 Pure White
Tamiya X-10 Gun Metal
Testors 1146 Metallic Silver
Testors 1260T Lacquer Dullcote
Testors 1261T Lacquer Glosscote
A USAF F-15 Eagle flying during the evening show of the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow. Thanks to it being an evening show, I got some good shots of the Eagle's afterburners.
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.
An F-35 flies overhead with the afterburner lit. As an engineer, I am in awe of this aircraft! It's like the F-117 and the F-16, or maybe the F-22, all rolled up into one incredible package. Then again, you pay for what you get.
The Blue Angels showing their support to the front line medical professionals in Pembroke Pines, Florida
So, we were at Andrews AFB this past Saturday and of course I took a ton of photos, but I really wanted to share this one with you guys. During the opening ceremonies Paul McCowan parachutes into the show with a massive 5,000 square foot American Flag during the National Anthem. Well I was taking photos and noticed he was headed towards the Blue Angels so I framed up the jet I hoped he was heading towards....but as parachuters come in for a landing they change directions according to the wind, etc.....so I tried to predict where he was heading and framed up the jet and stopped watching the guy coming down.....I kept hoping he was still headed for where I had predicted. Then all of a sudden the flag appeared in my viewfinder and I took the shot.............in the lower left you can see some soldiers running out to catch the flag as it approaches the ground.