2005 Warbirds in Action Minter Field Air Show Review. By Victor Archer

Minter Field is always an interesting place to go to. You never know exactly who or what might show up.
Who:
This year was kind of a who's who of Reno with race pilots like Steve Hinton, Skip Holm, Tiger Bill Destefani, Dan Martin, Eddie Van Fossen, Al Goss, Bob Button and a few more. There was a couple crew members from the Bear team and even a race Merlin engine builder present as well.
What:
A few rare warbirds showed up. Mike Coutches flew in his very rare P-51H-5NA.
Skip Holm brought the Hispano ME109 and Steve Hinton came up from the Planes of Fame in the P-38. Ellsworth Getchell was also there with his Bristol Centaurus powered Hawker Sea Fury Mk II.

The best part of the day was going back to the Warlock hanger and getting buzzed by a bunch of Stearmans, a couple low passes by P-51's and some crazy guy in a yellow Grumman. I sat out on the runway marker for a bit and got buzzed by a few more interesting planes.

You might ask are you going back next year? Yes there's airplanes flying right?
See you there.