Xray wrote:
True, didn't know about the construction, but the area is still "show center" I believe. Sunday will for sure be a guessing game for take offs.
Not much action today, F-100 went up early about 11:30 and flew most of his runs parallel to Ecorse and landed that way too, runway 30 something ?
Skyraiders were nice to see, they all did a couple passes before landing, as did the A4. They put up a half hearted heritage flight with a Mustang, Corsair and a Bonanza, apparently filling in for the 86, they took off and orbited out of sight and landed. Saw the 123 arrive a bit after 5, great looking bird ,,, Never did see the F-86 or Mig, I left about 5:30.
Looking forward to the next 2 days, weather looks stellar.
Wow 5pm arrival... They must have had a good headwind as I was predicting it to only be a hour and 15-30min flight.[/quote]
The C-123 landed on Runway 32 around 4:30pm. I was tracking it across Lake Erie on Flightaware on my phone. I wish I had stayed by the 32 approach but the 2 Skyraiders landed on 23R and I figure that was where everything was landing after that. I think every runway was used yesterday at one point or another, it got annoying. I was with a group of guys that sat in the field between the old Zantop hangar and Roush hangars getting Runway 5L arrivals. The F-100 shot down Runway 9L several times before landing on it. We heard on our radios that the A-4 was landing on Runway 32 so we quickly got over there and got it. There were people parking watching along the approach to 32, which was a great approach for lighting in the afternoon. When we saw the skyraiders land on 23R, we moved over there but unfortunately missed Thunderpig. Nothing much else landed on 23R except and N3N, T-6 and the AC-47 about an hour later.
The Bonanza going up with the Corsair and Mustang wasn't a heritage flight, it was a photo shoot. Whenever you see the bananza go up with a couple warbirds they are shooting for Warbird Digest, Warbird Magazine or something. Someone was asking about the F-86, it came in earlier during the week and was parked there. I was surprised there werent any practice heritage or legacy flights - the A-4 and the Skyraider that does Legacy flights came in around 4pm though.