Not too far from my home is the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California. Based at this airport/museum are many vintage WWII planes including the actual Curtiss P-40 that was used in the Valkyrie movie for the Afrika scene where von Staufenberg is wounded.
Every month there is a special event held at the museum, today the subject was the battle in North Africa involving US pilots and the Curtiss P-40. The star of the show was the plane from the movie, plus a guest panel of US Army Air Corp veterans who flew these planes in Africa back in 1943.
Here is the plane on static display outside the hangar before the program began. Ya gotta love those sharkteeth!!!
Every month there is a special event held at the museum, today the subject was the battle in North Africa involving US pilots and the Curtiss P-40. The star of the show was the plane from the movie, plus a guest panel of US Army Air Corp veterans who flew these planes in Africa back in 1943.
Here is the plane on static display outside the hangar before the program began. Ya gotta love those sharkteeth!!!
I plan to be there again this May. My son might volunteer one day, so I might be there both days. It is a fantastic show. I think it was last year or the year before that they had something like 9 P-51d's flying and chasing a German plane or two (forget which German planes).
. I really like the paintjobs of wwII airplanes
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