Pre-production photos, F4B-4 "9045 ANACOSTIA"

Hobby Master 1/48 Air Power Series, HA7905, Boeing F4B-4 "9045 ANACOSTIA" used by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Douglas Ingalls, Floyd Bennett Field Air Show 1935.

Pre-production photos, F-22A Raptor, Hawaii ANG/PACAF

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series, HA2806, F-22A Raptor, Hawaii ANG/PACAF 154th Wing, 199th TFS, "The Kuka'ililmoku' Hickam Air Force Base.

Pre-production photos, F-4C "64-0693" "First USAF MiG Killer".

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series, HA1930, F-4C "64-0693" FJ-693, 45th TFS, Ubon, Thailand, July 1965, "First USAF MiG Killer".

The Middleton Stirling, Corgi AA39502.

After the huge interest in the first Stirling release many looked to sit back and wait and see whether the interest would be maintained with the second release following short on its heels.

Well, it would seem that Corgi has listened to insights from buyers of the 1st release and addressed the biggest single shortcoming, its short legs!!! With the second release the issue has been addressed and the results are impressive.

RAF P-40 Kittyhawk found in the desert.

Pictures of a downed RAF Kittyhawk have emerged from the deserts of North Africa. The forums are alive with discussions and pictures so I've found a couple of good links to some commentary and pictures.

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/357/language/en-CA/Original-Kittyhawk-HS-B-Discovered.aspx

https://picasaweb.google.com/114682566226043469349/Zdj_samolot?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKjxkt6rkNTFKg&feat=directlink#

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142300/Crashed-plane-Second-World-War-pilot-Dennis-Copping-discovered-Sahara-desert.html

The Overberg Air Show: Civilian participants.

First off some graphic evidence of how the day started. There was a nice fire fighting display, T-28 Trojan flown by Dick Henry, the L-39 and Harvard.

The Overberg Air Show: Thunder City

Thunder City made a welcome return to the air show circuit with Ian Pringle flying his final displays before retiring from the circuit. He flew a great display with the Hunter's glorious blue note hitting the spot for die hard Hunter fans.

Photos from the Overberg Air Show.

As mentioned in a previous post, the weather was atrocious along with very poor lighting/backlight conditions. 

Having the event delayed from November to April also had the unintended consequence of having sun in wrong place for decent photographs to be had!!!

That said, we have been able to get some shots of the proceedings... note the bombs coming off the Hawk Mk.120 and Hawk gun run.

SAAF: