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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: rojawe on July 26, 2008, 02:42:46 PM
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cool and full of gooodies and check out the video on the F4u Carrier Landing
http://www.americanaeroservices.com/videos.htm :o ::) ;D
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cool and full of gooodies and check out the video on the F4u Carrier Landing
http://www.americanaeroservices.com/videos.htm :o ::) ;D
Love the oldies. I grew up near an airport that had a P-51 Mustang some guy ran, great plane.
My Dad flew B-17s over Germany, 8th AF, 398th BG, 600 Sqn. He took us into Midway in Chicago to see the B-17 that was touring for the old Steve McQueen movie "The War Lover". Just last month, I took my older boy in to see a B-17 brought into Fargo for rides - $425 each, too steep for me. But, I did get to see and hear them crank those Pratt & Whitney supercharged radials up. Great show just watching it fire up and roll out.
P-38
F4u
P-40 (yeah, them too Warhawke)
OV-10
OV-1
OK, those last 2 are Nam era, but cool still.
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all I did when I was little was build model planes. loved the B-58 and the 29 along with the p38
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Count me in on loving the old war horses (to include WWI also). The only one I have not heard is a Zero for some reason.
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What Old Warbird is there that isn't loved? Always loved the ones of the bent-wing variety...F-4U Corsair and F-4 Phantom II
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Count me in on loving the old war horses (to include WWI also). The only one I have not heard is a Zero for some reason.
There is currently only one flyable Zero left in the world and it belongs to I think, the Smithsonian. Confederate Air Force in Texas has several Japanese planes from filming the movie Tora Tora Tora, But they were faked from T - 6's
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"Old" as in WWII or even WWI.....love'em. But even the birds I worked on are now in the 30-50 year old category. Planes introduced during 'nam are 35 years old. Love them too
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I love the old Warbirds. Jets are cool but nothing sounds better than those old piston driven powerplants.Check out Showdown:Air Combat on the military channel they recreate some great dogfights with old warbirds and you get to see actual surviving planes and they did have a Zero that they flew in the show.
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I love the old Warbirds. Jets are cool but nothing sounds better than those old piston driven powerplants.Check out Showdown:Air Combat on the military channel they recreate some great dogfights with old warbirds and you get to see actual surviving planes and they did have a Zero that they flew in the show.
My reference was what I remembered from a 1976 issue of "Air Classics" . I'm with 2How, when I was a kid I had 1/72nd scale models of darn near every warplane of WWII. In fact I have a couple of kits setting on the shelf now ;D
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The one, the only, P-51 Mustang!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JRPYHn6hhVU
20 seconds,..... but that sound, gets me "fired" up!
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The one, the only, P-51 Mustang!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JRPYHn6hhVU
20 seconds,..... but that sound, gets me "fired" up!
When I lived in Ca. I worked near Hayward airport for a while and often saw P-51's flying in the area. In 2000 ! ;D
There was also a guy who had a P 51 B in 1/2 scale that he had built himself, that crashed near Sacramento though.
In 1999 at Moffett Field (Wings over America Show) I saw the only flying Gee Bee racer versus a dragster, the 300 mph Gee Bee won easily ;D
Here in NH, at North Hampton Airport there is a guy who flies a replica Fokker Triplane, and every year a group of WWII bombers comes around, possibly the same that Rojowe mentioned, B 25, B17, and B24 AWESOME !
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If you like WWI planes, watch the movie "Flyboys". Also a really cool "gunfight" at the end.
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If you like WWI planes, watch the movie "Flyboys". Also a really cool "gunfight" at the end.
The Great Waldo Pepper with Robert Redford. Yes he's a liberal commie turd but he made some really good movies .
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If you're ever in Oregon, 35 miles southwest of the People's Republic of Portland is the Evergreen Aviation Air and Space Museums (McMinnville, Oregon).
http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/planes.html
Some of the items on display:
de Havilland D.H.-4M-1
Curtiss P-40N Warhawk
Goodyear FG-1D Corsair
Lockheed P-38L Lightning
North American P-51D Mustang
Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XVI
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-10 Gustav
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
General Motors (Eastern) TBM-3E Avenger
Douglas C-47/DC-3 "Dakota" "Gooney Bird" "Sky Train"
North American SNJ-4 Texan
Mikoyan I Guryevich MiG-15 UTI Midget (Shenyang SS-2)
Yakovlev YAK-50
Boeing Stearman Model 75 Kaydet
McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle
Convair F-102A Delta Dagger
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird
Grumman OV-1D "Mohawk"
Bell UH-1H Huey
TITAN II ICBM / SLV Missile
German V2 rocket
and of course,
the Spruce Goose