I received an e-mail from a dear friend yesterday.  He told me that his Father (75) had sky dived on Sunday 09/11 thus checking off another to-do on his bucket list.  I thought, wow that’s really cool, too bad we weren’t there at the same time and I’m sorry I missed that.

As the above image shows, it turns out that I didn’t miss it.  While I never saw my friend the entire time we were out there, I did capture some images of his Father on his great adventure.  Pretty cool.

I love these types of events.  Especially the vintage planes and specifically the WWII era planes.  There were three versions of the T-28 trainer on display and we had the opportunity to watch two of them start-up and take off (what a wonderful sound those big radial engines make.) This plane was the Navy version of the T-28 and it had the big arrest-er hook on the rear of the plane.

This T-28 is the Marine version.  I’ve seen this plane several times so it must belong to a local aviator.  When this plane taxied off I was standing about 8 feet away and prop wash from that big engine was strong enough to push me back a few steps.

I shot over 255 images.  Not all were keepers but there are some more images I want to post in the next couple of days.  This image is of a beautiful red and gold trimmed biplane.  When he parked the plane I was shooting directly into the sun so the colors and the image are a little washed out  I have some better images of it for tomorrow.

Thank you, as always, for stopping by.  Enjoy your day and be careful.