@ Grass Valley, CA
July 2019
With the open bottom hatch as a speed brake, “Executive Sweet” races down the taxiway after touching down at Nevada County Airport. Actually this was a panning exercise shot at shutter speed of 1/15 sec. Delivered in 1945, this B-25 was assigned to Stateside training duties before retirement in 1959. Most notably, this aircraft flew in the 1969 movie “Catch 22” as Vestal Virgin. In 1982 the B-25 to the newly formed American Aeronautical Foundation Museum at Camarillo, CA. who has been operating it ever since. First flown in 1940, more than 9,800 were built. The B-25J was the last factory series production of the B-25. (Number made: 4,318.) There are more than one hundred surviving B-25s scattered over the world, mainly in the United States with about 45 still airworthy. Nikon D7100 w/18-200mm.
