Warbirds over the Beach - MAM airshow Virginia Beach, VA

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Last weekend, I had the opportunity to head down to the Military Aviation Museum, down in Virginia Beach. They hold an annual open house/airshow that I have really wanted to get down to for a couple years now, but timing never worked out. Well, this year it did, so I went down. The museum is basically the private collection of Jerry Yagan, and what a collection it is! Most everything flies, and it was really amazing to see some rare stuff take to the skies. I brought my camera along, and here's some pics. Enjoy!

 

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Highlight of the show....Me-262! It is hangered at another local airport (MAM has a grass runway), but it made several fly bys before RTB.

 

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P-40E Warhawk

 

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SBD Dauntless (This is from the Commemorative Air Force, which brought it and were selling rides in the back seat)

 

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C-46 (Another CAF airplane)

 

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Had an airborne demonstration group jump from the Commando! Pretty cool to watch

 

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F4F Wildcat

 

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SNJ/T-6 Texan

 

(Side note....I decided as a photographer for this event to get really 'gutsy' with my shutter speed and really try to capture motion and prop blurr). I use a 50-500 mm lens and it's big and heavy so trying to get sharp pictures while keeping the shutter speed down and moving the lens can be difficult. Overall, I was really happy with my progress and the results of these!)

 

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AD4 Skyraider

 

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Dive brake deployed

 

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British Mosquito

 

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Hawker Hurricane

 

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Battle of Britain memorial flight

 

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Mosquito

 

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German Ju-52

 

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Grumman TBM Avenger with some in camera effects :-)

 

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FG1-D Corsair

 

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