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February 28, 2014
Supernova
Ever seen a supernova?
Sure, everyone's seen a Super Nova -- jacked up with mag wheels and a tall whip antenna, but this supernova is quite different.
I was on board NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, on the night of Feb. 20/21, for a 10-hour science mission to study Supernova 2014J -- a star about the size of our sun that exploded. From Earth's vantage point, the explosion occurred on Jan. 21.
Some of the top supernova experts were on the flight and they were quite excite with what they saw. They took some photos for those of us in the general public to oooh and ahhh over, but the science staff was most interested in the spectra obtained during the flight. The majority of the observations were made at 39,000 and 41,000 feet out over the Pacific Ocean.
My story about the flight is here:
http://www.sofia.usra.edu/News/news_2...
Sure, everyone's seen a Super Nova -- jacked up with mag wheels and a tall whip antenna, but this supernova is quite different.
I was on board NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, on the night of Feb. 20/21, for a 10-hour science mission to study Supernova 2014J -- a star about the size of our sun that exploded. From Earth's vantage point, the explosion occurred on Jan. 21.
Some of the top supernova experts were on the flight and they were quite excite with what they saw. They took some photos for those of us in the general public to oooh and ahhh over, but the science staff was most interested in the spectra obtained during the flight. The majority of the observations were made at 39,000 and 41,000 feet out over the Pacific Ocean.
My story about the flight is here:
http://www.sofia.usra.edu/News/news_2...
February 12, 2014
Smithsonian Channel Documentary
On Jan. 25, the crew from Company X Studios was at the Moffett Field Museum in Mountain View, California, where I participated in the filming of a documentary for the Smithsonian Channel. The show will be about the "Battle of Los Angeles" -- the true-life events that inspired the movie 1941.
The Japanese shelled the Ellwood oil refineries near Santa Barbara and were torpedoing ships off the coast. Then, on Feb. 25, 1942, a case of war nerves struck the anti-aircraft gunners in the Los Angeles area. There were reports that planes were seen flying over at 18,000 feet and all H-E-double L broke loose. The gunners started firing, at what no one knows. The problem occurs when the anti-aircraft shells go up, they then come back down. Dozens were injured and three people were killed as a result.
I profiled this event in my 2001 book Battlestations: American Warships of WWII that was published by Motorbooks International. Keep in mind that the Battle of Los Angeles was less than 10 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, so you can't blame folks for being on edge.
Even if I end up on the cutting room floor, it was a great afternoon. I learned a lot, and look forward to participating in future productions.
As they say, good gig if you can get it!
The Japanese shelled the Ellwood oil refineries near Santa Barbara and were torpedoing ships off the coast. Then, on Feb. 25, 1942, a case of war nerves struck the anti-aircraft gunners in the Los Angeles area. There were reports that planes were seen flying over at 18,000 feet and all H-E-double L broke loose. The gunners started firing, at what no one knows. The problem occurs when the anti-aircraft shells go up, they then come back down. Dozens were injured and three people were killed as a result.
I profiled this event in my 2001 book Battlestations: American Warships of WWII that was published by Motorbooks International. Keep in mind that the Battle of Los Angeles was less than 10 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, so you can't blame folks for being on edge.
Even if I end up on the cutting room floor, it was a great afternoon. I learned a lot, and look forward to participating in future productions.
As they say, good gig if you can get it!
Hidden Warbirds 2!
Yes, the is a follow-up in the works and it will be out in time for Father's Day (June 2014). The good folks at Zenith Press worked their magic making the book look its best.
This volume covers some really interesting recoveries and restorations including:
• The Battle of Britain veteran Do-17 "Flying Pencil" recovery.
• The B-17 recovered from Dyke Lake, Labrador, Canada.
• The sole-surviving Brewster-built Corsair.
• The recovery of the Sandbar Mitchell.
• A P-40 found in Australia now flying in Northern California.
• A Hawker Tempest II restoration.
• The return of a Uruguayan Air Force P-51
and nearly a dozen more great adventures.
As many photos as possible are in color and there's a great two-page spread of a Corsair being recovered from Lake Michigan.
As with the first volume, this book was a blast to write and a lot of people were very generous with their time and photos to make it a success. Thank you!
There's discounted pre-order pricing out there on the web, so do some searching and save a few bucks!
This volume covers some really interesting recoveries and restorations including:
• The Battle of Britain veteran Do-17 "Flying Pencil" recovery.
• The B-17 recovered from Dyke Lake, Labrador, Canada.
• The sole-surviving Brewster-built Corsair.
• The recovery of the Sandbar Mitchell.
• A P-40 found in Australia now flying in Northern California.
• A Hawker Tempest II restoration.
• The return of a Uruguayan Air Force P-51
and nearly a dozen more great adventures.
As many photos as possible are in color and there's a great two-page spread of a Corsair being recovered from Lake Michigan.
As with the first volume, this book was a blast to write and a lot of people were very generous with their time and photos to make it a success. Thank you!
There's discounted pre-order pricing out there on the web, so do some searching and save a few bucks!
Lots goin' on...
Yes, I've been lagging on keeping up my blog posts. Apologies.
That said, there's been a lot going on.
In November, "Boneyard Nose Art" was released by Stackpole Books. I collaborated on this book with my friends Jim Dunn and Ron Strong. The photos reproduced very well and the book is a snap-shot in time of the aircraft stored at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside Tucson, Arizona.
Lots of cool shots and there's a section on the nose artists as well.
That said, there's been a lot going on.
In November, "Boneyard Nose Art" was released by Stackpole Books. I collaborated on this book with my friends Jim Dunn and Ron Strong. The photos reproduced very well and the book is a snap-shot in time of the aircraft stored at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside Tucson, Arizona.
Lots of cool shots and there's a section on the nose artists as well.
August 26, 2013
Five -109s Review!!!!
The good folks at the Warbird Information Exchange (or WIX) have given "Hidden Warbirds" their first-ever five -109s rating. Equivalent to a five star rating, these five -109s make this book an "ace"!
That's very cool and I'm honored to have such a review.
Check out the goings on at:
www.http://warbirdinformationexchange...
and the review can be read at:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/...
Thanks to WIX and all the WIXers for your support.
Nick
That's very cool and I'm honored to have such a review.
Check out the goings on at:
www.http://warbirdinformationexchange...
and the review can be read at:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/...
Thanks to WIX and all the WIXers for your support.
Nick
August 8, 2013
EAA Award Winners - Congrats!
The Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture 2013 has come to a close, and with that I wanted to extend congratulations to a pair of restorers that were featured in the pages of "Hidden Warbirds."
Taigh Ramey and the crew at Vintage Aircraft and the Stockton Field Aviation Museum (California) took home the "Judges' Choice: Bomber" award for their restoration/preservation of the rare Lockheed PV-2D Harpoon. The interior has been put back to stock, and the plane was armed with rockets, a functional top turret, and somewhere they found a set of drop tanks and pylons. It sure looked great!
Mike VadeBonCoeur's Midwest Aero Restorations was honored with the "Gold Wrench" award for their work bringing P-51D N151JT back to life. Owner Jon Vesely was presented with the "Grand Champion: Post World War II" award as N151JT (44-63577) was painted in the Korean War-era colors of "Was That Too Fast" from the 12th Fighter Bomber Squadron. This aircraft was ex-Uruguayan Air Force, and Midwest Aero Restorations was responsible for restoring "Lil Margaret" -- the Mustang found in a garage.
Congratulations to all of the winners!
Taigh Ramey and the crew at Vintage Aircraft and the Stockton Field Aviation Museum (California) took home the "Judges' Choice: Bomber" award for their restoration/preservation of the rare Lockheed PV-2D Harpoon. The interior has been put back to stock, and the plane was armed with rockets, a functional top turret, and somewhere they found a set of drop tanks and pylons. It sure looked great!
Mike VadeBonCoeur's Midwest Aero Restorations was honored with the "Gold Wrench" award for their work bringing P-51D N151JT back to life. Owner Jon Vesely was presented with the "Grand Champion: Post World War II" award as N151JT (44-63577) was painted in the Korean War-era colors of "Was That Too Fast" from the 12th Fighter Bomber Squadron. This aircraft was ex-Uruguayan Air Force, and Midwest Aero Restorations was responsible for restoring "Lil Margaret" -- the Mustang found in a garage.
Congratulations to all of the winners!
July 11, 2013
Seattle PI Review of Hidden Warbirds
The Travel For Aircraft blog on the Seattle Post Intelligencer website had a great review of Hidden Warbirds. Thanks guys! Check it out here (and pasted below):
http://blog.seattlepi.com/travelforai...
Hidden Warbirds: the epic stories of finding, recovering & rebuilding WWII’s lost aircraft, Nicholas A. Veronico, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7603-4409-5, 256 pp.
Hidden Warbirds: the epic stories of finding, recovering & rebuilding WWII’s lost aircraft by Nicholas A. Veronico, cover design by Chris Fayers with cover photo by Charles Darby
Read this book if you are interested in learning about the culture of people and organizations which search and find historic aircraft wrecks of the Second World War. Better, read this book if you want to learn the back stories of the recovery of many of these warbird wrecks from WW II to flying status as well as becoming exhibits in museums. Best, read this book for the stories of the service personnel who died within or survived the crashes that wrecked these aircraft — often, incredible stories of survival after becoming stranded in the remotest of territories are part of each war wreck’s tale.
Nicholas Veronico is an accomplished writer and photographer. He has an easy and flowing writing style that is informative, as well as deeply knowledgeable, not only giving readers the facts but relating the history leading to the crashes and the people involved — as well as each aftermath. The cover photo on Hidden Warbirds is of the famous B-17E known as “Swamp Ghost” since it lay forgotten in a New Guinea swamp until rediscovered three decades later. The survival story of the crew is remarkable as is the tale, taking several years, of Swamp Ghost’s recovery. This recovery was no easy task since the aircraft was neither in water nor on dry land and miles from firm ground. Politics and a little bit of greed are also part of the saga of getting Swamp Ghost to the Pacific Aviation Museum.
The chapter on Swamp Ghost, about 15 pages, is worthy of a separate review due to Veronico’s writing and image quality (National Geographic in caliber).
The other chapters in this book are equal in those qualities, as well. Aircraft recovery and restoration are not only covered in detail but the community of finders (wreck chasers) and restorers are each specifically discussed — who they are and the specialties they possess. Aside from the well done index and bibliography there is an extensive listing of museums and restoration outfits — more than enough to inspire as well as amaze readers with respect to the world of finding lost warbirds, recovering them, restoring them and even re-restoring them. We learn, too, that recovering and restoring a warbird is not a money making enterprise and not by a long shot.
Throughout the book Veronico tells readers amazing stories. Some of the stories told in Hidden Warbirds are (though there are many more):
• A Douglas B-18 Bolo which unintentionally crash landed in Hawaii — and so remote it is only accessable by helicopter, even today
• A North American F-6D Mustang (a photo reconnaissance aircraft based on the P-51D) and the surprisingly numerous differences between the F-6 and the P-51 though they are outwardly nearly identical. This aircraft is now the famous “Lil Margaret” which has flying status.
• The challenges when recovering U.S. Air Force as opposed to U.S. Navy aircraft
• Japanese aircraft recovery from jungles, Luftwaffe aircraft from lakes, USN aircraft from underwater and U.S. Army Air Force aircraft from within a glacier
Veronico also does what the best non-fiction authors do — he provides context as well as perspective. He tells us how warbird restoration began and evolved with the times including the influence of internet resources. He also describes how restoration, at first basic, became a craft of the highest order with incredible attention to detail and authenticity. This story is told by a person who has been there and can relate his knowledge in a gifted way. Nicholas Veronico finishes with an epilogue that will make most of this book’s readers jump up and look for the many more remaining Hidden Warbirds.
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As is the publishing business custom, Zenith Press has provided a copy of this book to read and provide an objective review — no compensation has been offered, expected or requested.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/travelforai...
Hidden Warbirds: the epic stories of finding, recovering & rebuilding WWII’s lost aircraft, Nicholas A. Veronico, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7603-4409-5, 256 pp.
Hidden Warbirds: the epic stories of finding, recovering & rebuilding WWII’s lost aircraft by Nicholas A. Veronico, cover design by Chris Fayers with cover photo by Charles Darby
Read this book if you are interested in learning about the culture of people and organizations which search and find historic aircraft wrecks of the Second World War. Better, read this book if you want to learn the back stories of the recovery of many of these warbird wrecks from WW II to flying status as well as becoming exhibits in museums. Best, read this book for the stories of the service personnel who died within or survived the crashes that wrecked these aircraft — often, incredible stories of survival after becoming stranded in the remotest of territories are part of each war wreck’s tale.
Nicholas Veronico is an accomplished writer and photographer. He has an easy and flowing writing style that is informative, as well as deeply knowledgeable, not only giving readers the facts but relating the history leading to the crashes and the people involved — as well as each aftermath. The cover photo on Hidden Warbirds is of the famous B-17E known as “Swamp Ghost” since it lay forgotten in a New Guinea swamp until rediscovered three decades later. The survival story of the crew is remarkable as is the tale, taking several years, of Swamp Ghost’s recovery. This recovery was no easy task since the aircraft was neither in water nor on dry land and miles from firm ground. Politics and a little bit of greed are also part of the saga of getting Swamp Ghost to the Pacific Aviation Museum.
The chapter on Swamp Ghost, about 15 pages, is worthy of a separate review due to Veronico’s writing and image quality (National Geographic in caliber).
The other chapters in this book are equal in those qualities, as well. Aircraft recovery and restoration are not only covered in detail but the community of finders (wreck chasers) and restorers are each specifically discussed — who they are and the specialties they possess. Aside from the well done index and bibliography there is an extensive listing of museums and restoration outfits — more than enough to inspire as well as amaze readers with respect to the world of finding lost warbirds, recovering them, restoring them and even re-restoring them. We learn, too, that recovering and restoring a warbird is not a money making enterprise and not by a long shot.
Throughout the book Veronico tells readers amazing stories. Some of the stories told in Hidden Warbirds are (though there are many more):
• A Douglas B-18 Bolo which unintentionally crash landed in Hawaii — and so remote it is only accessable by helicopter, even today
• A North American F-6D Mustang (a photo reconnaissance aircraft based on the P-51D) and the surprisingly numerous differences between the F-6 and the P-51 though they are outwardly nearly identical. This aircraft is now the famous “Lil Margaret” which has flying status.
• The challenges when recovering U.S. Air Force as opposed to U.S. Navy aircraft
• Japanese aircraft recovery from jungles, Luftwaffe aircraft from lakes, USN aircraft from underwater and U.S. Army Air Force aircraft from within a glacier
Veronico also does what the best non-fiction authors do — he provides context as well as perspective. He tells us how warbird restoration began and evolved with the times including the influence of internet resources. He also describes how restoration, at first basic, became a craft of the highest order with incredible attention to detail and authenticity. This story is told by a person who has been there and can relate his knowledge in a gifted way. Nicholas Veronico finishes with an epilogue that will make most of this book’s readers jump up and look for the many more remaining Hidden Warbirds.
<><><><><>
As is the publishing business custom, Zenith Press has provided a copy of this book to read and provide an objective review — no compensation has been offered, expected or requested.
July 9, 2013
Read a chapter or two, free!
The folks over at Command Posts.com have excerpted two chapters from Hidden Warbirds. Got a few minutes? Preview the book and read the chapters on-line at:
http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/h...
Enjoy!
http://www.commandposts.com/2013/07/h...
Enjoy!
July 7, 2013
Baltimore Sun Review of Hidden Warbirds
Frederick Rasmussen of the Baltimore Sun gave a story of his fascination with aircraft wrecks as well as a great review of Hidden Warbirds. Thank you, Mr. Rasmussen!
Check it out here:
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013...
I've pasted it below:
Book fuels fascination with airplane wrecks
June 06, 2013|By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun
I have always been fascinated with shipwrecks, the granddaddy being the Titanic, followed by the Andrea Doria, and the nether world where they dwell, tragic relics frozen in time. Wrecked airplanes also do it for me.
I remember looking at an issue of Life magazine around 1960 and being transfixed by the haunting color images of the Lady Be Good, a B-24 Liberator bomber that had overflown its base in Italy while returning from a 1943 mission and then crash-landed in the Libyan desert.
Its crew members, who had bailed out, attempted to cross the desert and perished in the process, leaving behind a diary that chronicled their attempt to reach safety.
No one had seen the nearly intact bomber since the crash until a British oil exploration crew chanced upon it in 1958.
I still recall the eerie photos of the flag-covered remains of its crew lying in the brown desert sand where they had died, and the discovery by the explorers that a thermos of drinkable coffee and water was found in the plane, along with a working radio and loaded functioning machine guns.
I once went hunting some years back for a downed Piper Cub aircraft on Mount Greylock in northwest Massachusetts with an old newspaper colleague, Ernest F. Imhoff, a fellow disasterholic and a veteran hiker and climber, who had grown up in nearby Williamstown, Mass., and recalled news stories of the crash during the 1940s.
A few years later, we trudged unsuccessfully through the dense forests of New Hampshire near Mount Moosilauke on a brilliant sun-splashed fall afternoon in a vain attempt to find another missing airplane, a Learjet.
The plane had simply vanished, almost "Twilight Zone"-like, during a 1996 Christmas Eve snowstorm, at what should have been the conclusion of a routine flight from Bridgeport, Conn., to West Lebanon, N.H.
The plane was eventually found in 1999, deep in the woods of Dorchester, N.H., with the bodies of its two pilots still strapped in their seats, 20 miles from its intended landing.
On another occasion, Imhoff took me and my son on a hike to Elephant Mountain near Moosehead Lake in Maine on a dark and humid summer day to visit the wreckage of a B-52 Stratofortress whose tail fell off during a January 1963 flight. The crash killed seven of its nine crewmen.
It was a profoundly creepy place. The debris field was startling, with pieces everywhere, even after the passage of nearly 40 years. It was covered with leaves, and trees have grown up replacing those that were sheared as the giant plane plowed to its final resting place.
Part of the intact cockpit can be entered. One can only speculate what transpired there in the final moments as its desperate pilot tried to save his plane and crew. The retractable landing gear has an enormous, still-inflated tire attached.
For those who are interested in such explorations, armchair or otherwise, check the recently published "Hidden Warbirds" by Nicholas A. Veronico, a California aviation historian and writer, about locating, recovering and restoring World War II's missing airplanes.
"They're out there … you just need to know where to look," advises Veronico in the book's introduction. "Missing fighters with names like Lightning and Warhawk; bombers large and small — Havoc, Marauder, Flying Fortress, and Liberator; and Navy carrier planes — Hellcats, Wildcats, and Dauntless; all are scattered across the former battlegrounds of World War II."
He writes, "Friends and foes alike, the hands of fate have also hidden Hurricanes and Spitfires, Stukas and Zeros, and dozens of other types. They sit in humid swamps and jungles, on sweltering desert hardscapes, submerged under water, or buried under tons of ice."
Veronico also points out that there are obstacles to such recovery efforts, which include exposure to insects, snakes, "hostile natives, and poor and primitive living conditions," he writes.
The wrecks can be found not only in exotic climes but also nearby. They are in "lakes, hidden in trees, in hangars, garages, and sitting on abandoned airfields. They are out there," he writes.
Recovery is just the beginning, which can be staggeringly difficult, he writes, and then comes restoration, which requires plenty of financial resources. Enthusiasm alone won't carry the day.
"Warbirds" is lavishly illustrated with color photos — many before and after — which I found hypnotic.
That some of these hulks and wrecks could be reassembled and brought back to life and flown again even after the passage of more than 60 years is simply incredible.
Check it out here:
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013...
I've pasted it below:
Book fuels fascination with airplane wrecks
June 06, 2013|By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun
I have always been fascinated with shipwrecks, the granddaddy being the Titanic, followed by the Andrea Doria, and the nether world where they dwell, tragic relics frozen in time. Wrecked airplanes also do it for me.
I remember looking at an issue of Life magazine around 1960 and being transfixed by the haunting color images of the Lady Be Good, a B-24 Liberator bomber that had overflown its base in Italy while returning from a 1943 mission and then crash-landed in the Libyan desert.
Its crew members, who had bailed out, attempted to cross the desert and perished in the process, leaving behind a diary that chronicled their attempt to reach safety.
No one had seen the nearly intact bomber since the crash until a British oil exploration crew chanced upon it in 1958.
I still recall the eerie photos of the flag-covered remains of its crew lying in the brown desert sand where they had died, and the discovery by the explorers that a thermos of drinkable coffee and water was found in the plane, along with a working radio and loaded functioning machine guns.
I once went hunting some years back for a downed Piper Cub aircraft on Mount Greylock in northwest Massachusetts with an old newspaper colleague, Ernest F. Imhoff, a fellow disasterholic and a veteran hiker and climber, who had grown up in nearby Williamstown, Mass., and recalled news stories of the crash during the 1940s.
A few years later, we trudged unsuccessfully through the dense forests of New Hampshire near Mount Moosilauke on a brilliant sun-splashed fall afternoon in a vain attempt to find another missing airplane, a Learjet.
The plane had simply vanished, almost "Twilight Zone"-like, during a 1996 Christmas Eve snowstorm, at what should have been the conclusion of a routine flight from Bridgeport, Conn., to West Lebanon, N.H.
The plane was eventually found in 1999, deep in the woods of Dorchester, N.H., with the bodies of its two pilots still strapped in their seats, 20 miles from its intended landing.
On another occasion, Imhoff took me and my son on a hike to Elephant Mountain near Moosehead Lake in Maine on a dark and humid summer day to visit the wreckage of a B-52 Stratofortress whose tail fell off during a January 1963 flight. The crash killed seven of its nine crewmen.
It was a profoundly creepy place. The debris field was startling, with pieces everywhere, even after the passage of nearly 40 years. It was covered with leaves, and trees have grown up replacing those that were sheared as the giant plane plowed to its final resting place.
Part of the intact cockpit can be entered. One can only speculate what transpired there in the final moments as its desperate pilot tried to save his plane and crew. The retractable landing gear has an enormous, still-inflated tire attached.
For those who are interested in such explorations, armchair or otherwise, check the recently published "Hidden Warbirds" by Nicholas A. Veronico, a California aviation historian and writer, about locating, recovering and restoring World War II's missing airplanes.
"They're out there … you just need to know where to look," advises Veronico in the book's introduction. "Missing fighters with names like Lightning and Warhawk; bombers large and small — Havoc, Marauder, Flying Fortress, and Liberator; and Navy carrier planes — Hellcats, Wildcats, and Dauntless; all are scattered across the former battlegrounds of World War II."
He writes, "Friends and foes alike, the hands of fate have also hidden Hurricanes and Spitfires, Stukas and Zeros, and dozens of other types. They sit in humid swamps and jungles, on sweltering desert hardscapes, submerged under water, or buried under tons of ice."
Veronico also points out that there are obstacles to such recovery efforts, which include exposure to insects, snakes, "hostile natives, and poor and primitive living conditions," he writes.
The wrecks can be found not only in exotic climes but also nearby. They are in "lakes, hidden in trees, in hangars, garages, and sitting on abandoned airfields. They are out there," he writes.
Recovery is just the beginning, which can be staggeringly difficult, he writes, and then comes restoration, which requires plenty of financial resources. Enthusiasm alone won't carry the day.
"Warbirds" is lavishly illustrated with color photos — many before and after — which I found hypnotic.
That some of these hulks and wrecks could be reassembled and brought back to life and flown again even after the passage of more than 60 years is simply incredible.
June 23, 2013
Meet and Greet
Wanted to thank everyone who stopped by my two recent book signings. Had a great time at Costco in Novato, Calif., on June 15, and enjoyed the sun and airplanes yesterday at the San Carlos Airport Open House. Hans Plesman from San Carlos Aviation and Supply (www.sqlaviation.com) was a great host! Weather could not have been better.
Signed copies of "Hidden Warbirds," "Images of America: Redwood City," and "Images of America: San Carlos." The San Carlos Airport is on the San Francisco Bay touching both Redwood City and San Carlos and lots of people were interested in the histories of both cities. Lots of interest in "Hidden Warbirds" and the aircraft wrecks in the coastal foothills west of town.
Sounds like they're going to have a big aviation authors' event at the Hiller Aviation Museum in November. I'll post details here asap.
Signed copies of "Hidden Warbirds," "Images of America: Redwood City," and "Images of America: San Carlos." The San Carlos Airport is on the San Francisco Bay touching both Redwood City and San Carlos and lots of people were interested in the histories of both cities. Lots of interest in "Hidden Warbirds" and the aircraft wrecks in the coastal foothills west of town.
Sounds like they're going to have a big aviation authors' event at the Hiller Aviation Museum in November. I'll post details here asap.
