As Silva and I got out of my little a-coupe, we were greeted by a P-51 Mustang roaring through the sky at less than 400 feet. Once passed, the fighter put its nose up and banked hard away from ... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
That's a great shot. Someone told me about a place in Florida that restores WWII fighter planes. Not sure if anyone is familiar with it. Just thought I'd bring it up. Maybe too many beers. Maybe not. Maybe I'll go back out and get another.
Ryan, those pics are fantastic. Not wanting to use an old cliche but "i'd happily have any of those parked in my garage..............." I'll keep dreaming
Those are some neat photos,good to see Ryans car in colour(color)at last.Now all we need is a UP Big Boy and we could have trains,planes and automobiles.This Easter just gone was a big airshow at Temora,NSW. Lots of WW2 aircraft but no hot rods. If Flatattack looks to the skies above North Sydney tomorrow he will see a Spitfire doing a flypast in memory of a WW2 squadron leader who past away last week. It is good to see the rods in a variety of surroundings,shows what some of the other HAMBER'S are in interested in.Anything with cubic inches and horsepower. Keep on roddin'
Ryan here is a picture I took on our lake in 2005 of a P-51 doing a low pass. Note the 2 model T's in the back ground.
What's the story with the roadster? Any more pix of that car? I think that is one of the coolest cars I have ever seen, it looks just like someone opened up the door to the shed, cleaned up a little and got it fired up after a 50 year slumber. Both of them are awesome and the photos look like they could have been taken years ago.
That's cool. They are going to have the gathering of Mitchell's at the Willow Run Air Show this July in Detroit. Supposed to be the biggest one of it's kind. After we get the cars and trucks on the road, the next goal is to join the Yankee Air Museum. We went last month for a wonderful tour and afternoon. The power and grace of those planes is amazing. The owner of the company I work for owns another company in England that restores WWII aircraft. He collects Spitfires and has quite a few planes. Here is one of his planes. Amazing stuff!
Any P-47 Thunderbolts? Those look like a B-29 engine & cowl with a pursuit plane attached. Bearcats was the last new pursuit plane to fly during the war years I believe, and the Skyraider the last propeller fighter in the US inventory. Are there any comparisons between the P-47 and P-51?
the P-47 "Jug" was an evolved design going back to the P-36. BIG air cooled radial in front. the P-51 and P-47 represent the "streamlined but more vulnerable liquid cooled" vs "less vulnerable but bigger frontal area radial" debate that designers in the 30's and 40's fought. I will attempt to parapharase a P-47/ P-51 story from memory from the book by Francis Gabrowski (sp) a P-47 ace. We had our ships retrofitted with the new 4-blade propeller. I took my ship up on a check ride. I happened to run into a P-51 doing th same and we flew together. Now normally if a P-51 wanted to break away from an engagement with a P-47, he would dive then zoom into a climb and pull away. this fellow tried to, but that new prop with the 4 fat blades just kept pulling me. I just kept pouring on the and his face showed amazement as I pulled up to him. coupla P-47's here http://www.lsfm.org/index.php?pgid=1
That is very, very cool. Last fall these planes were up in Beverly Mass. As I was walking around the tail of that B-17 and looking up at the overcast, I tried to imagine what it must have been like for the young kids who served in them . Especially in the early (pre long range fighter support) years of the war.
Exactly what happened. You can view his 13 states in 13 days thread here. El Jefe brought it to the HAMB Drags last year as well. And Ryan, awesome shots.... thanks.
Awesome. I love the sight, sound, & smell of those old airplanes. If you ever get to the UK, you HAVE to go to Duxford (maybe hour-hour-&-half north of London). Working museum & they fly most of what they restore. Amazing airshows. I was there for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - they had a formation of 24 Spitfires & Hurricanes doing scramble takeoffs & rejoins, B-17 flying escorted by P-51 on one wing & a P-47 on the other, Messerschmitt, Corsair, you name it - if it flew during WWII, they've got one...and it flies! I'm jealous of your day out, Ryan - looks like a blast!
NOTHING in the world sounds as sweet as a Merlin going by. To help put the differences if the Jug and the Mustang in a different light - I remeber an old Jug pilot talking on T.V. He said "if you wanted to impress your girl back home, you sent a picture of youself next to a Mustang. If you wanted to live long enough to go back home and marry that girl, you flew a Thunderbolt."
A club member of ours and a member here "guyontheHAMB" works for Odegaard Wings. they rebuild wings for early war planes and specialize in p51 mustang stuff. The owner has a Super Corsair. We keep bugging him to get us a tour. ive got some pics of my T with a p51 too...
Man, I wish I could've gone yesterday. Oh well, I'm sure I had just as much fun putting together IKEA furniture all day!
Check out the Rodders Journal #27 for a full story on the Tom Orren roadster - El Jefe's "Waco Kid" is an unbelievable piece of Texas hod rodding history, and as barn fresh as they come. It was a great day out there - and this is what it looked like bombing down the country blacktop in the jump-seat of that car - it doesn't get any better than this...
I've heard the same from other fellows that flew them. The P-47 with the larger 4 blade prop was as fast in a climb as a P-51. Nothing could catch a P-47 in a dive. I love the P-47's. Absolute brutes. They were very rugged and could often limp back to base with several cylinders shot out. During the later part of the European campaign, the P-47 was given the task of ground strafing runs and as local air support for infantry. The standing order was given targets of opportunity, take them. If it moves, kill it. Trains, trucks, horse carts, factories, bridges, roads, etc. were all open game for a P-47 on the prowl.
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