Stevens Point Air Show

sunday June 1 2008, Stevens Point, Wis
It's been 4 years since we've had a 'real' air show.

My little camera isn't very good for telephoto, so I stuck with a lot of ground shots, using the pole camera to get just above the crowd.
There were many planes there, but I concentrated on the B-25, first time I've seen it up close.

cars, too

WW 2 vehicles

Fire trucks on display

fire department raised a 40-foot flag during the opening ceremony,

by the time I realized it, I was in the wrong place for a picture.

Did see the rolling up process.

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. . . . . . . B-25 . . . . Miss Mitchell

and Airport terminal is in picture, too.

Never know what the camera on the pole sees until reeling it back in.

cockpit

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. . . . . . instrument panel. Viewed from pole camera peeking through window,
. . . . . . . . . .with permission of ground crew
I guess the only modern equipment is radio and electronic map display in center.

Looking forward / left at
waist gunner position

Only a small crawlspace over bomb bay.

Looking rearward to tail. Pole camera picture. My feet are on the ground, camera raised through hatch.

bomb bay

.. . . . . . . . . Tommy T. asked the pilot of the Mustang for pictures.
. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . So he took tommy's camera and snapped the cockpit and panel

Link to Commemorative Air Force ,
home of the B-25 in Minnesota, USA

also buy raffle tickets from Commerative Air Force Wisconsin Wing
'Keep the WW II Warbirds Flying'

Aviation gas is $5 a gallon, the B-25 uses 120 gal per hour. .

My pole camera,
telescope pole can go up 30 feet.
Pull Fishing line to trip shutter.
Good guess at aim.

Close pictures taken with permission of the crew.

I've read several stories about these planes.

It's really great to see and hear the real thing.

Link to my original site, with no advertising, and a complete chronological list of my pages of ALL sites,
Bruce's RailRoad Pictures index page

wrote June 7, 2008