On a recent trip to southern California, a friend and I took biplane rides from a company called Barnstorming Adventures (see link to their website below). They fly out of Montgomery Field, which is in the northern suburbs of San Diego. The flights were in vintage biplanes that dated to the 1920's. They began life as Travel Air 2000's, fitted with inline engines. They have since been fitted with more reliable radial engines, and as such would be considered to be Travel Air 4000's. They are painted in the original factory color scheme of navy blue and orange.

I have tried to map the course of my own flight with the "map this" feature. The two planes flew close together part of the time, and separately part of the time. It was great fun, and I highly recommend this to any of you planning a visit to the area. Check the company out at:

http://www.barnstorming.com/index.html

The company offers a wide range of flights, not just in biplanes, but also in an SNJ-4 'Texan' (a WWII advanced trainer) and in Varga VG-21s (for simulated aerial combat).
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arctangent > La Jolla, with La Jolla Cove at the far right center. I've map tagged La Jolla Cove in this picture.
arctangent > Kayakers off La Jolla's cliffs.
arctangent > La Jolla coastline, just south of La Jolla Cove.
arctangent > Looking back northeastward at La Jolla. The green of Ellen Browning Scripps Park is visible just beyond the tall white building in the left center of the picture. La Jolla Cove lies hidden immediately beyond the park.
arctangent > Looking southward from La Jolla toward Mission Beach and Mission Bay.
arctangent > Pacific Beach in the foreground, La Jolla near the center (with the tall white building silhouetted against the ocean), and the Torrey Pines coastline stretching into the distance. The projections into the ocean are Lower Hermosa (upper) and Bird Rock. La Jolla Mesa is discernible along the right, with additional highland areas spreading off toward the upper left (northward). The roundabout just to the left of the lower wing tip marks the intersection of Midway (running east-west) and La Jolla Boulevard (running north-south). Midway ends at the ocean, just after crossing Sea Rose Place.
arctangent > Zoomed in on Lower Hermosa and Bird Rock, just south of La Jolla, which lies along the stretch of coastline that is silhouetted against the more distant ocean (where the tall white building is). The map tag marks the upper projection, Lower Hermosa. The road that parallels the coastline, starting from a T-intersection at the lower center of the frame is the northern end of Calumet, I think. (FYI, this picture shows more roundabouts along La Jolla Blvd than appear in the Google maps satellite images of this part of southern California. I conclude that the satellite images are several years old.) The horizon is lost in the haze, but I made my best guess where it was when levelling the image. I believe the mesa at the right center is La Jolla Mesa.
arctangent > Heading inland. The red tile roofs near the center mark the enclave of La Jolla Alta, atop one of the many mesas in the area. To the left of La Jolla Alta, and separated from it by a ravine (in green) is La Jolla Mesa. I've map tagged La Jolla Alta for this picture. The intersection of Turquoise and Mission Blvd (where it turns into La Jolla Mesa Drive north of Turquoise) is just out of the picture along the left edge, where there is a square tan building with a flat roof (red arount the edges and grey in the center). Turquoise runs left-right in the picture (west-east).
arctangent > Looking southward past Sail Bay (just west of Mission Bay). San Diego Sea World is visible in the picture, just to the right of the left dark strut, and to the left of the second bridge in the road that roughly parallels the two metal braces for the wing. The center of Sail Bay (open water) is map tagged.
Looking southward from La Jolla toward Mission Beach and Mission Bay.
> Looking southward from La Jolla toward Mission Beach and Mission Bay.
Looking southward from La Jolla toward Mission Beach and Mission Bay.
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