GregP
20th May 2007, 13:26
Just got home from day 1 of the 2-day airshow. We had a mass flyby including:
1) Three P-38's (an "F", a "J", and an "L"). This reperesents all the flyable P-38's in the world at this time as far as we know.
2) Six P-51D's (plus Tiger de Stefani's "Strega" air racer in static).
3) Grummans: One F3F, two Wildcats (an F4F and an FM-2), two F6F Hellcats, an F7F Tigercat, an F8F Bearcat, a TBM Avenger.
4) Two Curtiss P-40's (an "F" and an "N").
5) Douglas: An AD Skyraider and an SBD Dauntless.
6) North American: four B-25 Mitchells and one T-28B.
7) One Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX.
8) Hawker: One Hurricane and one Sea Fury (Unlimited Air Racer Argonaut).
9) One Boeing B-17.
10) One Bell P-63 Kingcobra.
11) One Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero and one A6M3 Zero.
12) One Converted Vultee BT-13 masquerading as aJapanese Val Dive bomber (a Tora, Tora, Tora aircraft).
13) Two Vought F4U-1 Corsairs.
The U.S. Military contributedan F-18 Hornet act and a nice demo by the F-15 E Strike Eagle team. AT the end, the F-15 E, a P-38, and a P-51D did a formation flyby. We also had a Korean War demo with our F-86F, MiG-15, and T-33, and a Vietnam act with two Cessna Bird Dogs, a Huhey, AD-1 Skyraider, and T-28B.
The Argonaut put on a dazzling disply of high-speed aerobatics at over 400 knots with smoke. We also had a Zlinn 50 act and a wingwalker in a Stearman.
All in all, a really nice day, but I got SUNBURNED. Since I am working the show, I really can't get pics very easily, but I will try to get a few tomorrow. :)
1) Three P-38's (an "F", a "J", and an "L"). This reperesents all the flyable P-38's in the world at this time as far as we know.
2) Six P-51D's (plus Tiger de Stefani's "Strega" air racer in static).
3) Grummans: One F3F, two Wildcats (an F4F and an FM-2), two F6F Hellcats, an F7F Tigercat, an F8F Bearcat, a TBM Avenger.
4) Two Curtiss P-40's (an "F" and an "N").
5) Douglas: An AD Skyraider and an SBD Dauntless.
6) North American: four B-25 Mitchells and one T-28B.
7) One Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX.
8) Hawker: One Hurricane and one Sea Fury (Unlimited Air Racer Argonaut).
9) One Boeing B-17.
10) One Bell P-63 Kingcobra.
11) One Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero and one A6M3 Zero.
12) One Converted Vultee BT-13 masquerading as aJapanese Val Dive bomber (a Tora, Tora, Tora aircraft).
13) Two Vought F4U-1 Corsairs.
The U.S. Military contributedan F-18 Hornet act and a nice demo by the F-15 E Strike Eagle team. AT the end, the F-15 E, a P-38, and a P-51D did a formation flyby. We also had a Korean War demo with our F-86F, MiG-15, and T-33, and a Vietnam act with two Cessna Bird Dogs, a Huhey, AD-1 Skyraider, and T-28B.
The Argonaut put on a dazzling disply of high-speed aerobatics at over 400 knots with smoke. We also had a Zlinn 50 act and a wingwalker in a Stearman.
All in all, a really nice day, but I got SUNBURNED. Since I am working the show, I really can't get pics very easily, but I will try to get a few tomorrow. :)