Chino AIrport Practice Day - Airshow May 5th and 6th

fholbert

fholbert

Mod's - Please don't edit my posts!
I've tried to shoot airshow video before but airplane noise is drowned out by the PA system playing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company C at full volume. This year I figured if I went on practice day maybe the PA system wouldn't be working yet... I was right.

Where does one find a privately owned F-4 Phantom anyway?

 
TowJoe said:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/tx_f-4dphantom_training.htm
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Good call but that's not the one. This is an old Navy F4.

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I was under the impression that the Collings was the only one flying civilian...so I don't know which one this is!
 
Friday weather was much better than today's. Today remained hazy all day. Plus Friday had that wonderful high ceiling.

For those who want to know, that's Clay Lacy in his Lear. Leave it to him to install smoke on a Lear. The Horsemen are super tight in their form flying. Steve Sr in the P-38. I think Sean's performance was better on Saturday. I'll be there tomorrow too.

Frank, great footage as per your usual.

Oh yeah, today the F-4 caught almost everyone unaware. Late in the day, after the practice Heritage Flight (P-51D in lead, two P-38s and F-4 in the slot) the Phantom departed the area to the north as solo. He came screaming in over RWY 21 at way less altitude than on Friday. Complete sneak like the Blue's solo...shook up a lot of people. Lots of hoots and hollers.
 
Today is a wrap. Great weather and a large well behaved crowd.

Check out Scott Plummer's work. http://airshowvid.com/latest-airshow-coverage More vids to be added soon. fholbert, you might want to contact Scott regarding a directional microphone he uses for video audio. He was amongst the crowd yet he could control the audio without software editing. It's all about the mic.

FYI: the Phantom is still active mil and based at March AFB. It is a QF-4 designation, it can be operated remotely...a hint of it's final demise over the NV desert.
 
RICHARD5 said:
fholbert, you might want to contact Scott regarding a directional microphone he uses for video audio. He was amongst the crowd yet he could control the audio without software editing. It's all about the mic.
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I think he's got a lot more money invested than I.

RICHARD5 said:
FYI: the Phantom is still active mil and based at March AFB. It is a QF-4 designation, it can be operated remotely...a hint of it's final demise over the NV desert.
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Do you know that for sure? I've heard 4 different story's about where it came from. BAE makes F4 drones in Mojave so to me that seems like the natural choice.
 
RICHARD5 said:
Today is a wrap. Great weather and a large well behaved crowd.
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Sunday I rented tables and chairs for my hangar and had a guy making tacos to order for 50 people. 35 of them had never been to an airshow before. As a tenet of Chino I was able to provide 1/2 price tickets for all of them. Most of them stayed for the F4 sneak and really enjoyed the day.
 
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