Saw these come in for a landing at the Sheboygan airport. (Dialup alert)

[Archae]

Just got back from seeing and photographing them.
The sound, was pure music.

[cwydro]

1. How cool!

[arbusto_baboso]

2. Gorgeous. Flying history, they are.

I was lucky enough back in 2002 to be in the UK in September. I saw the Battle of Britain flight from Duxford fly over where we were staying in Hertfordshire. It was a Spitfire, a Hurrican and a Lancaster. Amazing.

Also went to the Duxford air museum a couple weeks after that and was lucky enough to see a P-47D Thunderbolt shotting touch-and-gos....

[Forkboy]

3. Awesome pics.

And I totally with you on the sound part. :)

[NoPasaran]

4. Very cool!

There's nothing like the sound those big engines make.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Magnificent!

Thanks for sharing your day :)

[Richardo]

6. Sweet!

Beauties. :patriot:

[SidneyCarton]

7. Cool!

I love old warbirds, I have a model of a P-38 and a P-51 in my cubicle at work, I build them to take off stress, but my apartment is small, and the cube is the best place to store them.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. was it a Warbirds convention? nt

[Archae]

9. No, just a stop on some sort of tour.

[Crabby Appleton]

10. Beautiful

My uncle was a B-17 pilot in WWII.

[trof]

11. I flew a P-51.

An acquaintance had one that he'd had converted to tandem two-seater.
He took me up and let me have the stick for a while.
I did a loop and a couple of aileron rolls.
Way cool.
I was born a generation too late.

[Schema Thing]

15. My uncle flew them over Germany

He published his diary on the experience.

My father was a Hump pilot.

[trof]

19. Where can I find the diary?

I had a good friend who flew P-47s and P-51s in WWII.

[Schema Thing]

21. good question

It's probably almost impossible to find. It's titled, if I remember correctly, Dairy of a Combat Pilot.


I'll see if my mom has the one copy I know of, and then see who published it and when.

[ashling]

20. My mother was in the Red Cross

My father was a Hump pilot.

she set up libraries, etc. at Red Cross camps along the Ledo Road. I have a silk two sided map of Burma & China that was carried by crews of those lanes that flew the Hump.

[Schema Thing]

22. very cool. those silk maps are amazing, aren't they?

[GCP]

12. Wonderful

I'm a visiting nurse and one of my patients was married to one of these pilots who fly these old warbirds around the country. I would love to see these flying.

[Brother Buzz]

13. Multi-engine wardbirds make pure music that.....

is as much a pleasure to feel as hear. The Nine-O-Nine looks fine!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Probably heading to Oshkosh for the big airshow.

I used to go to that every year. Really cool -- anybody who likes airplanes, especially old ones, should try to make it to that show.

[taterguy]

16. I thought I lived in a backwater town. Your airport's only served by prop planes?

Those don't look very comfortable for passengers.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I've been inside 'Witchcraft' and 'Nine 0 Nine'

In fact, I wasted a FW 190D from "Nine 0 Nine"'s port waist gun. :)





When the Collings Foundation flew into Hollister, though, they didn't bring the Mustang. That one's quite rare, btw — it's a trainer, the only one of its kind.

http://mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/survivors/pages/42-103293.shtml

[Archae]

18. I could have toured the inside of both also...

I didn't have $24 though.