The Chino Air Show

  A couple of weekends ago, we went to the Chino Air Show. And it was cool! Pati and I have two friends, from the Marina, Frank and Mike, that work for an air charter service called Threshold Aviation Group. Frank is a jet pilot and flies for this company that provides executive air travel to, well....the people who can afford 'executive air travel'. For me, not being in the category of even thinking about chartering a private jet, it was pretty impressive. Mike is the all around  master of the plane hanger and takes care of just about everything that needs to done. He loves to fly every chance he gets and is working toward his pilot's license.

 The owner of the company they work for puts on a little get together every year for the air show. There was good BBQ, drinks, schmoozing and to say the least, a nice afternoon for all. We didn't go in at the general admission area so we weren't up close and personal to all the exhibits and planes on display.  But we had an up front view of some really cool planes and a great vantage of the runway. In the hanger that we were at, was the owners personal collection of 5 fighter jets, that he flies, as well as the charter jets. Like I said, pretty impressive. The best part about it was that we were really close to the  air strip where the planes take off from and got some great views of classic airplanes and old WWII fighters taxiing down the runway and taking off into the 'wild blue yonder'...Cool! The planes were flying overhead and I got to see plenty of passes and at the end of the day, a stiff neck from looking into the skies for so long. It was  my first air show and a great experience that I hope we get to do again next year. Hope you like the photos I took, and don't forget to check out the short video of some old planes taking off and flying through the clouds. Click on any of the photos to enlarge them and, you can read all my blogs at:  lefthandblogger.blogspot.com