Pics and description fowarded to me by a friend...
Thought you might appreciate this....last Thursday we took 5 of the 7 flying
P-38s from Chino to the Sacramento Capital airshow at Mather for the weekend
show. John Maloney flew chase in our P-51... first we joined up over Lake
Mathews for a quick and dirty photo shoot, then climbed up and headed North.
Along the way Hinton decided we would buzz Shafter, where his son was
preparing "Stega" for Reno .. so we went whistling by their hangar line a
breast at about 300 and pulled up and came around single ship .... climbed
back up and joined up..
then on to Fresno. The Air Museum's P-38 " 23Skidoo" cracked a head, so we
followed her to descent at FAT and pressed on ..... then about 10 out of KMHR
Hinton again decided on some tom foolery and we did a super low echelon pass
at Sander's private strip before we headed to KMHR for a fan break with the
Mustang with 5 cameras rolling ... At one point in the flight Maloney came
from behind in the Mustang and dove down to our right and pulled up into a
giant exagerated barrel roll over the rather loose goose formation, so the
camera man could snap a photo thru the canopy of the mustang as he was
inverted over the P-38 flight ..... what a fun deal that was ...... here's a
few of the shots .. hope you're all well.
All the best.
