WWII Fighters In The Sky! (Off Topic)

Very off topic, very, very cool post!

I'm a Warbird & Nose art lover too! The pic of the SkyRaider and P-38 gave me a boner!

Thanks for posting these pix.

Joel

 

Looks like it was a weekend of airshows on both coast, took these pics last Saturday at Melville in NJ

Photos below are staged Japanese attacks from a group called Tora-Tora-Tora

 

More birds

 

Off Topic?...great pic's, nothin' better than the sound of a radial engine.

 

So I guess that's where the B-24 and B-17 were headed when they flew over the Fresno area heading south.

 

Good pics, thanks!

You can't beat hearing these things run: Cubic Horepower! Seeing them stuffed and stuck in a static museum just doesn't compare.

Our little museum here at BLI had their monthly open house Saturday. Not nearly as exciting as Chino, as we only had a Skyraider, Mustang, two T-6s and an L13 up. I did get to go putt around in the L-bird for awhile, slower than heck, but what a view.

 

What version??

I had a 44 L-4 and many times city street traffic was going faster than that bird...!

But you can't beat the view flying "Low and Slow" up the coast in the fall over the lighthouses and ships!!!

A couple of weeks ago I was photographing for some friends that were Practicing Formation flying.






I've got some great photo's from the cockpit of P-51's while flying over the Midwest as well!

Hey...., a buddy of mine (Capt Eddy) was at Chino with his plane..., "Did anybody get a picture of my friends "Fairey Firefly""????

It's the only flying model left in the world..!

 

Consolidated-Vultee L-13B, 1948. We had just finished the annual, so a couple of us mechanic types got to go along on one of the flights.

Good formation pictures, I always seem to forget my camera the day a ride comes up!

 

very cool pics.. i live right near a warplane heritage museum and a Lancaster bomber does some low fly overs in the summer.

 

Joe Riot.....those are some great pictures man!!! At the Chino Air Show they had a mock ground war between the Wermacht and US troops. They had a sherman tank firing away and a stuart tank. Of course the stuart got knocked out first. I think by a little 37 mm anti tank. Then the Sherman moved in and the Nazi's (actors) dropped like flies. It was cool to hear the weapons firing. I tell you, I would have shitted my pants to see a Tiger, Panther or King Tiger moving across the ground. I guess Im a sort of a history dork. I guess we all are.

I would loved to have seen an Fe 109 or a Messerschmitt flying around. But they did fly the only original Zero left in the world and they flew a real Korean War Mig and F-86. That kicked me in the ass to see and hear those early jets.


I envy you guy who have been able to go on fly alongs. Maybe when i save up enough loot, I fly in one too.

 

Hey Buick59 you NEED to get over to the UK and go to Duxford as they not only have the most amazing aircraft but the y have a big ol' armor museum too! The armor part has a big dirt area out back that they take tanks out and run em around. They have stuff from WW1 up. If I remember correctly they have a Panther and it is HUGE, I would have hated to be in a Tommy cooker (Sherman) and come up against one of those things...Oh yeah and they had the cooles tank motor ever, 5 Mopar flathead6 motors mounted to a semi radial gearbox system. Think big radila aircraft engine with 1 6cyl motor in place of each single cyl! Oh yeah go to RAF Hendon too, non flying displays but what a collection of planes, tons of German stuff too......

 

May have to go anyway, but here's the latest from the Duxford website......

Imperial War Museum Duxford has begun its ambitious new project to create Airspace, the centre for UK aviation heritage. One of the first stages of this redevelopment involved the decanting of exhibitions and some of the aircraft previously housed in the old Hangar One out to other locations on site. Consequently, aircraft housed in the other hangars were moved around to make room for some of the aircraft from Hangar One. As a result of the decanting process, visitors should be aware that there will be some changes to the layout of aircraft in various hangars on site.

Hangar One is now closed and all exhibits are located elsewhere on site. Concorde is once again open for visitors to view internally as are two other aircraft from the civil airliner collection.

As a temporary measure part of Hangar 2 will be used for exhibit storage and unfortunately is not be accessible to visitors. The aircraft and exhibits currently located in this area include the Short Sunderland V, Heinkel He111, BAC 164 Strikemaster, Panavia Tornado GR1, Junkers Ju52/3M, Gloster Javelin FAW9, De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW2, English Electric Canberra B2, Fairey Gannet AS6, De Havilland Leopard Moth, Mikoyan MIG21, Boeing B-17 'Sally B' (there is an example of the B-17 in the American Air Museum), Swedish Bofors AA gun, Yellow Fever radar unit and Avro Blue Steel missile.

Subject to operational requirements, it may be possible to view these aircraft under the supervision of a Museum Assistant. Please write to the Front of House Manager, Duxford Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airfield, Cambridge, CB2 4QR for further information.

 

I work with the guy that owns that Stuart tank. He was the one that "died" on it in battle.

I'll see if I have any of that "Fierry firefly"? What kind of plane is it?

 

It's been a while since I was there, but they were already beginning to move the planes out of Hangar 1 - the Concorde was outside already & there were definitely fewer planes in Hangar 1.

On a whim, the wife & I drove out there shortly after we got over here 5 years ago in Sep - first trip we took after we got a car - I wanted to show her the cool place I'd raved about before. We had no clue that it was the Battle of Britain's 60th Anniversary Airshow - talk about the right day to go to Duxford!!

They had everything flying that day & brought in dozens of Spitfires & Hurricanes - I believe they had a 24-ship formation of Spits & 'Canes that did a scramble takeoff in 3-ships & flew around the pattern to "pick up" the next 3-ship until they were all formed up - what a sound! Meanwhile their B-17 was being escorted by a P-51 on one wing & their P-47 on the other. Just a few of the planes that flew that day, but I'll never forget that 24-ship - and me without a camera!

 

I'd like to go to the WWII weekend someday. The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum is restoring a P-61 (only 4 left period) to flying condition. I want to see that thing fly in a bad way. I'm still saving for a P-51 ride.

I'll be at Thunder Over Michagan but I don't know if I'm driving the coupe or not. We'll have too much stuff with us I think! (uniforms and whatnot) I've never been but it will be HUGE! Seven B-17s, 2 B-24s, B-29, 4 B-25s, 4 P-47s and 4 P-51s (only 4... wtf?) No P-38 though.

 

The Fairey Firefly is a British Fighter with a RR Grif and articulating wings...!!!

It's a Very cool plane but a mechanical nightmare of convoluted systems...!!!

However when the systems work it's an awesome airplane...!!!


This is my friends plane!

 

I think I saw it there, I have no pics of it.

I remember seeing a plane with "royal navy" on the rear fusalage, maybe that was it. Cool looking plane, and defenatly differrent.