Anyone here like Old War Birds

[rojawe]

cool and full of gooodies  and check out the video on the F4u Carrier Landing
http://www.americanaeroservices.com/videos.htm

[Pathfinder]

cool and full of gooodies  and check out the video on the F4u Carrier Landing
http://www.americanaeroservices.com/videos.htm

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.

[2HOW]

all I did when I was little was build model planes. loved the B-58 and the 29 along with the p38

[RTFM]

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.

[CurrieS103]

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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[tombogan03884]

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

[alfsauve]

"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

[dj454]

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.

[tombogan03884]

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

[twyacht]

The one, the only, P-51 Mustang!


http://youtube.com/watch?v=JRPYHn6hhVU

20 seconds,..... but that sound, gets me "fired" up!