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The Royal Canadian heritage flyover during the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow with a CF-18 Hornet flying alongside a restored RCAF P-40 Kitty Hawk.
The prototype fuselage of a McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II, nicknamed the Flying Dorito. It was a Navy stealth fighter bomber program that was cancelled in 1991. Only the non-flyable prototype was ever built, and it remains on the outer grounds of Meacham Airport awaiting restoration as a museum exhibit.
Spitfire stunt flying over East Preston
It arrived "out of the blue" and I thought it would only be over the village for a few seconds. How wrong I was. Anyway I grabbed the camera and poked it out the window to grab a couple of shots only to find he stayed around for several minutes. Time enough in fact to dash down the road to the beach and get some decent clear shots.
At the speed and altitude he was flying he only appeared in the gap between the roofs for a couple of seconds at the most on each pass.
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A sneak peek of this weekends air show at the Waterloo Regional International Airport. Despite my years in the air force, I still get thrill at the sight of military aircraft, no matter what the era.
Pictured: An RAF Top Gun pilot crash landing his Harrier Fighter Plane on the runway of Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan. The pilot ejected to safety via his rocket fired ejector seat, once he had steered his Harrier passed a civilian passenger aircraft also on the runway. May 2009.
Went to the Waddington Airshow this past weekend, came back with some okay shots, but I was having to shoot into the sun for most of the day.. Got some interesting shots though. Heres the first shot from the Waddington Air Show 2011
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Aircraftmen fit a 250lb bomb to a Hawker Hurricane ~ it had just been announced that the fighter was being used as a single seater bomber in certain circumstances.
A USAF F-35 Lightning II flying in the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow. This was the plane that I most excited to see. The pilot put on an incredible demo too, she didn't hold back, showed off all the F-35 can do, and came close to breaking the sound barrier.
VANDAL 21 in XI[F] SQN markings but a XII SQN callsign, taxiing for take off at RAF Conningsby. Aircraft departed with VANDAL 22 [ZK426] both on unrestricted climb-out's
This Blue 710 captured several records during 1975 and 1977.On 31 August 1977 the aircraft captured a new altitude record.
Martin Baker are best known for their ejector seats but late in 1944 the company produced this striking design for a twin engined, twin boom fighter. It is not known if the design was given a project number, or other identification and is known simply as the Twin Boom. The design was to use two Griffon power units housed one at each end of the cigar shaped fuselage, each Griffon powering a pair of 3-blade contra rotating props similar to those used in some late Mark Spitfires and the post war Shackleton. Construction methods and design would probably have followed that of the MB5 while the crew of two was curiously to be housed in slightly staggered twin side-by-side cockpits. There is no real information about potential armament, even what the expected role of the aircraft would have been, or which aircraft it was expected to replace in service. Though designated as a fighter its strange asymmetrical dual cockpit layout suggests something more than the early war concept of a fighter, as defined by the Spitfire or Bf109. Certainly dog fighting would not likely have been its prime function, while as a night fighter there is little indication of how or where the required radar would be housed. Whatever its role, had it been built it certainly would have made an impressive, if perhaps an extravagant sight. While this and other designs were exploring the extreme limits of piston engined aircraft where 600mph was considered feasible, in reality the jet and the war’s imminent end would never allow them to ever have a realistic chance of seeing the light of day, so their potential would never be proved.
McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle
Nellis Capabilities Demonstration
Nellis Air Force Base
Las Vegas Valley, NV
The RCAF CF-18 Hornet demo during the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow. The Cf-18s are now due to be replaced by the new CF-35 Lightnings by 2027 making this years airshow one of the last few times that they'll be at Abbotsford. It'll be sad to see them go when they're finally retired.
A USAF F35 Lightning II performing during the Lightning demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It was an awesome demo, it was cut short however due to technical problems. A warning light came on and the pilot had to land. That said she put on a good show, didn't hold back, and she nearly broke the sound barrier.
Vought F4U Corsair speards its iconis gull wing during the 2011 Chino/Planes of Fame Air Show. Copyright 2011 Gus McCrea, this and more atwww.gus-mccrea.artistwebsites.com
The Royal Canadian heritage flyover during the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow with a CF-18 Hornet flying alongside a restored RCAF P-40 Kitty Hawk.