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So last Friday I was skiing up at Mt. Baldy (big snowy thing overlooking downtown L.A.).

Last run, I was down at the lodge level, dropping into the run down to the parking lot when I hear this loud <span style="font-weight: bold">RRRRAWWWWWRRR</span> overhead.

Look up and there's a P-51 with D-Day stripes barreling through the notch, over the lodge and down the valley hugging the west wall. Way awesome.

If he had come by five minutes earlier I would have been looking <span style="font-style: italic">down </span>at him form the run.

He blasted down the valley and disappeared. A great sight to cap off a fun day.



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PC. aint that a great sounding motor, had the same thing happen to me a couple of years ago in west palm beach while sitting lake side at a friends place, the guy was so low we could see his face. :thumbsup:
 
Had two of them in formation buzz the house about 10 days ago. Heard them coming so I got a good look :smile:
 
One of those things hit that very mountain in the clouds once. Pieces of it are still on the west face. One of many aircraft to run face first into that lump.
 
A few years ago, we had an air show. Lots of fantastic aircraft, but the highlight to me was two B-17's, a B-24, and a B-25 all flying together with a P-51, P-40 escort.
 
Very neat! I'm envious.
 
One of the local NASCAR gang here, Jack Rousch, has 2 P-51's, or so I've heard. Never seen them and don't know where he keeps them.
 
Have any of you ever seen the Canadian Warplane Heritage museum Avro Lancaster fly? 4 Merlins in very close formation... I used to go to the airshow in Geneseo NY. Formation flights like 21 T6s together, MATS Constellation landing on the grass field.Many P51s ... Man, that was a sterling airshow. Too bad infighting at the museum brought it to an end. The sights and sounds are never to be forgotten. I was standing next to a SB2C Helldiver as it started up, and taxied out to the runway. You could feel the ground shake. It is OK to see aircraft like that as static displays in museums, but nothing beats seeing them alive, in their elements. (Kinda like LBCs No?)
 
jessebogan said:
Have any of you ever seen the Canadian Warplane Heritage museum Avro Lancaster fly?
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we used to live just a few miles away and regularly (almost daily some weeks) would have it fly over. When they had the airshow (Father's Day) we would sit on the roof and watch. The week before and after as the planes arrived and left was always cool. I remember mowing the lawn one year and having a Russian Bomber fly overhead - I thought it was going to land on my street!
 
jessebogan said:
The sights and sounds are never to be forgotten. I was standing next to a SB2C Helldiver as it started up, and taxied out to the runway. You could feel the ground shake. It is OK to see aircraft like that as static displays in museums, but nothing beats seeing them alive, in their elements. (Kinda like LBCs No?)
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Jesse, I used to work at a drop zone near Hagerstown. One day, I heard loud engine sounds in the parking lot. The Pagans (local motorcycle ga... uh, <span style="font-style: italic">club</span>) showed up to learn how to skydive.

We let an aerial applicator keep an Ag Stearman tied down on the strip. He came by that same day to do some spraying and started up the R-985. Then I noticed that all the students were missing!

I looked outside the hangar and the Pagans were gathered around the Stearman with mouths agape as it sat ticking over, "Ka-bloop, ka-bloop, ka-bloop".

"That's louder than my Harley!", one huge guy yelled.

By the way, he tore his jeans when he landed in corn stubble that afternoon and his girlfriend had a mild malfunction, called a Mae West, that caused her to land far away.

But they still had fun.
 
A few years back I was helping at an air show I was standing next to the rear stab hold traffic when he spun it over. That was music so cool. There was also a Saber jet and a Mig there, they performed a dogfight "N Korea style" that was so neat just a whisper in the air not like today’s roaring jets. My dad flew the B59 Hustler just before it went out of service “Maint. Pig” now that was LOUD in afterburner doing a zero zero. The meanest looking fastest bomber of its time.
 
We were racing at the Thunderbolt Historics at NJMP in '08 and they ran a concurrent airshow at Millville Airport.

It was difficult to focus on racing while looking up in the air at the same time! :laugh: Amazing fun!

We are hoping to have the same deal in '10.

The event was -HERE-.

Some pics from it below:

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Spitfire (below).
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Dakota (below)
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PBY (below)
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When I was a kid the dealership's body shop foreman converted Mustangs for civilian use as a "hobby". Times were very different then and WW2 was a recent memory. He removed radios (or something) from behind the pilot's seat and fitted a jump seat so a passenger could ride along. I got to see them occasionally but never got a ride. His last plane was a late Spitfire that he donated to the Bradley Air Museum in Windsor Locks CT. It was later restored and I presume it's still there.
 
bgbassplyr said:
One of the local NASCAR gang here, Jack Rousch, has 2 P-51's, or so I've heard. Never seen them and don't know where he keeps them.
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I remember reading an article in Autoweek about when
Roush crash-landed into a lake.A bystander pulled him out-
saving his life.I would assume that they rebuilt the plane
after that.

- Doug
 
One of my proffesors from college was a gunner in a B-25 and he said that at the end of the war they told all the guys, "if you can fly it out of here, it's yours." he said of course, most things were pretty well shot up.

Man, the just don't make wars tlike they used to. In WWII they used ~REAL~ planes. I've always wanted to fly one, but don't have the stomach for it. I'v ~REALLY~ always wanted to shoot one down from the ground....none of ours mind you....
 
AngliaGT said:
bgbassplyr said:
One of the local NASCAR gang here, Jack Rousch, has 2 P-51's, or so I've heard. Never seen them and don't know where he keeps them.
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I remember reading an article in Autoweek about when
Roush crash-landed into a lake.A bystander pulled him out-
saving his life.I would assume that they rebuilt the plane
after that.

- Doug
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Jack crashed an ultra lite. I don't think it was his, but no sure of that. He was very lucky to have survived that one.
 
Nothing like the sound of a radial engine. The smell of av-gas and oil cooking, kinda gets into your blood. This Stearman was mine, photo taken the day I bought it. Needless to say, it was more than a couple years ago. :jester: Man I loved that aircraft!
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One of my early aeroplane rides was in a Steerman. Aerobatics, owner was a commercial pilot, I was a 16 year old "apron lizard"...

Ruined me for life. :jester:
 
For some reason those old Stearmans never go out of style, just up in price. I paid $6500.00 for it back then, it's still around and was sold recently for $89,000.00! It was the Navy version with a 225 Lycoming on it. The Army air corps version had a 200 Continental for power.
 
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