Last Saturday one of my grandsons and I rolled out of bed at 4:00am and drove the two hours to historic Wendover, Utah. We left early in an effort to photograph the rising sun at the Salt Flats. After taking some shots, we packed up the gear and headed into town for some needed breakfast to fill our starving bodies. From there it was a short hop to the historic Wendover airfield. The airfield used to be a military base, used for the training of B-29 bomber crews during WWII. The bombers were used to fire-bomb Japanese cities in an effort to press the Japanese into surrender and end the destructive war in the Pacific. The hanger used to house the Enola Gay (And I'm guessing the Bockscar.) That dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is still on the field and was opened to the public. My grandson and I were there to watch airplanes fly. Well, my motivation was to photograph the planes and spend time with this youngster who likes planes, particularly military planes. It was a mostly sunny day with just enough clouds to add interest to my images. I was excited to start photographing the planes as they put on a show for the crowd. Among the highlights were two T-33's, one in the classic chrome finish and the other in the Blue Angles livery. Other flyers included the Yak-50 Demo Team, a TS-11 Polish jet trainer, the P-51 Ole Yeller, and an RV7 and RV8 aerobatic team, It was not a huge show, but there were some great things to see and we had so much fun we didn't leave until close to closing time. As for me - I filled a 128 gig memory card - some 2,800 images! Here are just a few.

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