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Curtis P40 Warhawk makes a pass during a fly-in at the Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville, California. The Curtiss P-40 first flew in 1938 and was used by the air forces of 28 nations, including those of most Allied powers during World War II, and remained in front line service until the end of the war. When production ceased in November of 1944 13,738 had been built, all at Curtiss-Wright Corporation's main production facility at Buffalo, New York.

It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...