Airshow this weekend, Planes of Fame in Chino, Ca.

[wgrr]

I was a big airshow fan until my good friend Bobby Younkin was killed in a Canadian airshow crash when he and Jimmy Franklin collided performining their Masters of Disaster Show. We lost two of the finest stunt pilots in the world that day. Sadly Samson, the plane he is flying in this video, was also a casualty that day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUlA5CZneNM

If you go to airshows you have seen Bobby fly. He pioneered stunt flying the Beech 18 and the 2X series of Lear Jets. His son Matt has taken the reigns and is piloting the Beech in this video. His mom forbids him to do one stunt in the Beech show his dad did. Bobby would fly the Beech twin, upside down, 50 foot above the runway. I asked him one time when he knew to pull out. His reply was, "when the engines begin to sputter" the engines had gravity feed carburetors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mk3c6TLmE

Here is another video of Matt in the cockpit flying the Beech 18.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qSzCnzXvY

Bobby is gone but, never forgotten by thousands of airshow enthusiast. I am glad Matt has filled his fathers shoes. Younkin aviation is alive and well.

Bobby's father is famous for inventing a key radar component that was used by the British in WWII during the battle of Britain. Some Arkies have done some pretty amazing things. Jim, Bobby's father, is still alive today.