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WWII Airplane nuts!!

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Cadillacin Marcus, Jul 4, 2004.

  1. OH MY GOD!!! TWO P-51 Mutsangs keep flying over my house in fomation..they just buzzed over at about 200 ft off the deck!! HOLY Christ was that awesome!!I have major woodage right now..They must be flying over for the Parade in town..They are painted in D Day stripes!! FUCK!! Thats the most amazing sound ever!!!My digi camera is in Mexico with my parents! UGGH!!! otherise I would be filming this shit!!!! WAY FUCKIN COOL!!!
     
  2. oldchevyseller
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  3. kentucky
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    That rocks! The Mustang is one of the ultimate hot rods! An old biplane painted like a warbird flew over my house a few weeks ago(coulda been real, I don't know) and it was cool and all but didn't exactly raise the heart rate. A Mustang, we're talking cardiac arrest now!
     
  4. I know a guy who used to fly those things back in the 40s. He has about 50 hours flying right seat in the DeHavalind Beaver Float Planes I fly here in Alaska. You may have heard of him, he used to hang out at Edwards a lot. He goes by the name of "Chuck" Yeager. Davey [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] <font color="red"> </font>
     
  5. crewcutkid
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    Sounds cool, my grandpappy was a waist gunner on a b-17, couple of kriegies under his belt...
    -Crew
     
  6. The37Kid
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    What unit was he in, do you know the name of the plane? My Dad was an armorer with the 385th out of Great Ashfield, might have rebuilt the .50 Cals that took out those fighters.
     
  7. FRITZ
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    geez I'll post this fer grins.
    my uncle wolfgang Von Schenck flew in the luftwaffa
    FW-190's and later on ME-262's (first fighter jet)
    his group was KG-52
    FRITZ
     
  8. unpunk01
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    My grandfathers AA unit was the unit credited for taking down the first German jet! He told the story that they were to guard a bridge that the Germans wanted knocked out. They had intel that they (the Germans) were going to try an air raid on the bridge so my grandfather's unit set up two AA guns on each of the four corners and waited...sure enough about 11 pm they heard a buzzing sound coming down the valley so they opened up in the direction of the buzzing and about 1/4 mile from the bridge the sky lit up with a big fireball...gottem. I'm not 100% sure what type of jet it was...but that was always a cool story to hear as a kid.
    Just realized that this is off topic but I just spent five minutes pecking this out and I don't feel like deleting it....the Mustangs rock too!
     
  9. Last week I'd swear the N9M Flying Wing flew over my house. Wayno
     
  10. oldchevyseller
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    hows this for the web???here is your uncle
     

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  11. Old Chevyseller thats how they were flying! except it sounded like they were diving right for my house..they came down really low to pass over the parade which is not too far...and then they shot straight up again..and then circled around and did it again!! The sound of those two fighters is Awesome My house shook.. This was a treat!! Made my whole year seeing that!!I was speechless.
     
  12. oldchevyseller
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    [​IMG]yep as long as they are not strafing you it is the best!!!
     
  13. Skate Fink
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    .........biplane???
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  14. That would have been even more bitcing to hear there 50's blazing are you kidding me!!hehehehe
     
  15. av8
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    As young as I was at the time, I have some vivid recollections of WWII aircraft. Here's a bit from an editorial I wrote for American Rodder, following the first annual Muroc renunion.

    "On September 28, 1941, the last time the Southern California Timing Association ran at Muroc, I was most likely visiting my maternal grandparents in Pasadena. My father, a fabricator at Vega Aircraft in Burbank, worked long overtime-laden weeks making detail pieces for the Lockheed P-38 fighter plane--the Lightning. On Saturdays, a work day for my father, my parents and I would hike west from our house on Flower street in Burbank to Western Avenue after dinner and then head north to San Fernando Road and finally backtrack to the large, open-front Grand Central Market at the corner of San Fernando and Sonora Avenue. Here, my folks would buy the early edition of the Sunday paper and a treat for each of us. We lived only a few doors from Sonora Avenue, where the Irving Airchute factory--now Deist Safety Equipment--stood, but Sonora had already been blocked off so the runways at Grand Central Air Terminal could be extended to accommodate the Pacific Air Defense squadrons that were stationed there. America knew we were in for a fight long before December 7 and Pearl Harbor.

    I was still about a year away from the beginning of my love affair with cars, although even then I was aware of several loud, fenderless roadsters in the neighborhood that were so different from the vehicles my family drove. Airplanes were my focus for the moment, partly because of my father's work and that of a favorite uncle who was an A&amp;E mechanic on the P-38 flight-test line at Lockheed. Best of all were those wonderful P-38s themselves, just a block away at Grand Central. From our front yard I could look straight down Ruberta Street which ended at the runway and watch those aggressive twin-boom monsters taxi back and forth, tall as a house, their tails bobbing up and down as they rode along on their leggy tricycle landing gear, enormous propellers spinning as transparent, shimmering discs. Takeoffs were always exciting, often with a half-dozen Lightnings scrambled at once, roaring down the runway and vaulting into the air with only fractions of seconds of separation between them. But nothing could match those times when, upon returning, they would tuck in low, next to the hills that rimmed the Los Angeles River to the south of us, howling along in a tight formation along the backside of Griffith Park. Suddenly, they would be upon us, in the neighborhood before we realized it, at what seemed like tree-top level and sounded like a million miles an hour, the harmonic moan of their twin 12-cylinder Allisons split right down the middle by the whistling whine of the superchargers. Lord! What a sound!"
     
  16. When I was down in Auburn Indiana last weekend we attended a dinner Friday night held in the lobby of the A-C-D Museum.Displayed in the lobby were a Duesenberg roadster,an L-29 Cord phaeton, and(on loan from some air museum)a 7/10ths scale P-51 Mustang powered by a 350 Chevrolet V-8!It was all in natural polished aluminum finish and was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
     
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  18. Awesome stories guys!! Yeah I have been following the resto that P-38 .....amazing!!!
     
  19. FRITZ
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    oldchevyseller,
    yup thats him, i only have a few photos of him, he survived the war, I dont know to much about him, 'cause duh the half of the family that lived in the USA didnt talk much bout him.
    where did you dig up that pic on him?
    FRITZ <<<doesnt sound to German now does it, LOL
     
  20. Hollywood
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    Well on the subject of 51's truly one of the badest. I had a 4 th grade teacher that flew them. He used to tell some of us stories of it. The most memorable was the fighter support with the Enola Gay.
     
  21. kustombuilder
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    AMAZING story Av8, i felt as if i was there, great writing..
     
  22. Flat Ernie
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    That would have been even more bitcing to hear there 50's blazing are you kidding me!!

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    Lemme hear yer guns, son! C'mon, lemme hear 'em! yang-yang-yang-yang!
    -1941


    Went down the road to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford on Memorial day weekend. They brought out their B-17 escorted by 2 Spitfires - the sounds they made on takeoff &amp; their low passes over the field were incredible. Later, a P-47 did a mock airfield attack strafing runs - the wheel in the sky pre-cursor the the A-10 "Hog Wheel" type attack. Very awesome.

    If you ever get to the UK, make a point to go to Duxford. I believe it is the largest flying air museum outside of the US. It is a working restoration set-up. Every aircraft is restored to flying order and most are flown! They've got virtually every major WWII aircraft and a whole section dedicated to the US. They have a glass wall that is etched with the fighters &amp; bombers lost organized by unit &amp; date - it's awesome to look at, kinda like the Vietnam Wall. It's not quite on that level, but it's close.

    It's about an hour drive north of London, so if you're over here, it's well worth a day out. I went for the 60th Battle of Britain airshow a few years back - unbelieveable! They had a formation of 24 Spitfires &amp; Hurricanes doing flypasts of the field there, Mustangs, Jugs, B-17, ME-109, you name it.

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  23. oldchevyseller
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    i sent you a pm fritz,i am a huge ww2 guy and have tons of stuff from my dad and uncles ,they were at the philipines when all hell broke loose the first time and got out in my ucles plane he flew pby's ,the yalmost took mc carther out but he didnt like to fly, so he went out in a PT boat huge trip in that 80 foot boat i heard he was big time sea sick from that, WHERE ELSE CAN YOU GET P38'S HOTROD'S AND A LUFTWAFFE ACE ALL IN THE SAME FORUM?ONLY IN AMERICA,!!!!WOOOHOOO,BUY THE WAY I HAVE A 1937 LUGER FROM THE WAFFEN SS , SCARY SHIT THE LITTLE EAGLE AND SS MARKS,AND WHEN I BRING IT AROUND TO GUYS AT THE GUN SHOWS THEY GET ALL MISTY EYED,THEY WERE THE MEANEST GERMANS,AND IT SORT OF WASN'T NEEDED BY THE GUY ANYMORE ACCORDING TO MY UNCLE WHEN HE GAVE IT TO ME
     
  24. fab32
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    I spent my 'GROWING UP YEARS" getting transfered around the country as My dad was an Air Force bomber pilot. I spent much of my time at the base around the planes and dreaming about flying. av8, you've captured the essence of that invironment with your post. I remember going to the end of the runway and watching my dad take off and when I knew his arrival time would pedal my bike out to watch him land. There is nothing quite like the feeling of power when they open the throttles and head down the runway. Watching fuel dragsters run is the only thing that comes close in my opinion.

    Frank
     
  25. disastron13
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    Fritz, my great uncle Fritz was a welder in the Luftwaffe, spent the war in Afrika and was later a POW in Texas. Captured when the DAK surrendered.
     
  26. FRITZ
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    YAh Disastron, that must have been rough, LOL. Us Alpine people dont tan to well HAHA......
    well LOng Island has 2 really cool air &amp; space museaums.
    one at the old Mitchell field air port (if you watched the movie "pearl Harbor" you've seen it) and one called the American air power museaum. and a neat place called the 56th fighter group resturaunt (zemeks wolfpack) and a friend and pinstriper have aircraft junk all over his yard, Including a real life sized F-86 falling star fighter. anyone wanna go sight seeing just let me know.
    FRITZ
     
  27. crewcutkid
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    dunno what unit my g'pa was with, poor guy is deceased, so I have to go through what is left of his wwII experience. I have a pocket watch he recieved as a gift during/before WWII that went on his 25 missions. I'll let y'all know what I find that may be of interest.
    -Crew
     
  28. Smokin Joe
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    Getting back to P-51's. I bought my motorcycle from Ed Browning. He used to have the "Red Baron" Air Racer. The old "Red Baron" building is just down the street from where I work at the Idaho Falls airport. Neat log building. Went by there after work today and there's a WWII navy trainer parked out front. Pacific Fighters is here also. They restore WWII fighters. Pretty common to see an F4-U, P-51 or other WWII fighter low over my building when I get outside for a smoke break.
     
  29. burndup
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    Damn, AV8, thats like one neighborhood over from mine... DISNEY owns most all the old airport, tilt-up concrete office buildings. The grand central terminal is just sitting, semi-neglected. Really cool old deco building.

    little Deist building is still there, just doesnt appear very busy.

    Ironically, part of the old runway exists as the back area of a disney warehouse-- a converted cold war building that used to manufacture nuclear bomb triggers...

    Any way, they kept the prop plane-bits from the "Pearl Harbor" movie there on the old runway, I got to climb around them one day... they used a lot of original canopies and instrument clusters in them...

    A lot of aviation pioneers are planted in the ground here, like the guy who built the Wright Bro's engine, and the guy who sold Amelia Earhart her plane... others...
     
  30. Buick59
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    Some pictures I took at the Chino Air Show last May.
     

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