Here are four albums with photos of four different vehicles photographed at Hayward airport open houses 2012 and 2013 – AM General M925A1 Truck, 1962 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Iusso, Oshkosh T-1500 Aircraft Rescue Firefighting Vehicle and Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A Blimp “The Spirit of America”.
Hayward Airport Open House 2013
Posted three albums from last year’s Hayward Airport Open House. Added the photos of Yakovlev Yak-50, Bell 260L-4 Long Ranger VI and Lockheed JetStar 731.
San Francisco Fleet Week 2012
Posted three new albums of ships from San Francisco Fleet Week 2012 – coast guard cutter USCGC Sherman WHEC-720, destroyer USS Spruance DDG-111 and excursion ship Harbor Queen.
Last of the Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2012
Finally got around to publishing the last of the photos from Pacific Coast Dream Machines from two years ago. Added the albums for Beech C23 Sundowner, Let C-11 Blyak Racer, Robinson R44 Raven II and Dodge WC56 Command Car.
Cars
It’s been a very long time since we updated the automotive category, so today here are four different classic cars from Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2012 – 1968 Plymouth GTX, 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, Messerschmitt KR200 and 1971 Dodge Polara.
Aircraft photos from random events in California
Four different albums of individual walkarounds made in different locations in CA where only single aircraft were present. The albums are North American B-25J Mitchell from Collins Foundation visit to Moffett Field in 2014, Grumman S2F-1 Tracker from Mojave Airport in 2013, Bell UH-1H Huey from USS Iowa open house in 2013 and Gulfstream G550 photografied at Moffett Air Field in 2013.
Armor and softskins from Connecticut
Added four new albums from Military Museum of Southern New England located in Danbury, CT. They are Fiat 500 Topolino, M656, MBT-70 prototype and Beobachtungspanzer 22-2.
Aircraft from Hayward Airport
For the last several years Hayward Executive Airport has been hosting it’s open house with a mini-airshow, and even through I missed it this year, I did go there for the last two years, so here are photos from the Hayward Airport Open House 2012. We’ve posted the photos of General Motors FM-2 Wildcat, Aero Vodochody L-39C Albatros and Gates Learjet 55.
Space related update
During the Nationals two years ago visited Cape Canaveral, so here are three albums from there. We’ve added the photos of Saturn V Rocket, Apollo Capsule and the Moon Buggy.
More aircraft from Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2012
Just before this year’s PCDM show added four more albums of the aircraft from two years ago. They are North American P-51D-25-NA Mustang, Vultee SNV-1 Valiant, Sikorsky S-64E Skycrane and Pitts Model 12.
New naval update
Posted four new naval themed albums. We’ve added USS Constitution from Boston, MA, 2-Ton Crane from Havenmuseum in Rotterdam, Netherlands and two guns from The National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, DC – a US 3pdr Mark 15 Naval Gun and a US 12pdr Dahlgren Boat Howitzer.
Photos from yesterday’s Silicon Valley 2014 Classic
Yesterday’s contest was a great success, thanks to everyone who came and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Here are the photos from the contest.
Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2012
Running just two years behind on content here are new albums from Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2012 – North American T-28B Trojan, Beechcraft A36 Bonanza and Bleriot XI replica.
A little bit of everything
Posted four new albums from Israeli museums to the four different sections – AMX-13, PR-14 Transporter for the SA-3 missiles, Mercedes Unimog with ZPU-4 and Soviet 130mm M46 Field Gun.
Last of the aircraft from Minsk
Posting the last three photographs from Minsk-Borovaya Air Museum – Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-25PU, Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-29 (9-13) and Kamov Ka-26. And just to bring up the post to the regular four walkarounds were is an Antonov-PZL Mielec An-2 Antek photographed in Mojave Airport.
Naval photos
Updated the ship section of the gallery with new albums for HMCS Ottawa FFH-341 from San Francisco Fleet Week 2011, Russian Tallship Pallada from it’s visit to San Francisco in 2011, 1921 vintage Tugboat Finland from Havenmuseum in Rotterdam, Netherlands and US 1.1mm/75 Mark 1 Quad Anti-Aircraft Mount from USS Yorktown CV-10 in Patriots Point, Charleston SC.
Aero-space photos
Posted two more albums from Minsk-Borovaya air museum – Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-27K and Ilyushin Il-18V, also added the last two albums from the LA Science Center – Lockheed F-104D Starfighter and Mercury-Redstone 2 Space Capsule.
Next meeting is our annual Gift Exchange party
Reminder that next meeting on Friday December 20th will be out annual holiday gift exchange, there will be no model talk during the meeting. If you want to participate in the gift exchange bring up to three gift wrapped models with you. Please read official gift exchange rules here before the meeting.
Softskin photos from MVCC
Added four new albums of the vehicles photographed at various MVCC conventions in the last couple of years – M38A1 with 106mm M40A2 Recoilless Rifle, Gama Goat Prototype, GMC CCKW-353, 2 1/2 ton, 6×6 truck with ST-6 Shop and .30 Caliber, M1917 Browning Machine Gun on a M1917A2 tripod.
More aerospace walkarounds from LA
Posted four more albums from LA’s California Science Center – Wright Glider, Northrop T-38A Talon, Douglas DC-8-52 and Gemini 11 Space Capsule.