Xray wrote:
Was a weak flyin - Looks like the F-5's got scratched from the list and A-10's added [didn't even see them, likely flying in in the morning].
This is what I saw arriving:
Canadian C-130
German A-400M
A couple mustangs and B-25's
A-26
F-86
P-3
C-47's
A-1 Skyraider
Was wondering why the P-3 up and left.
Probably no choice on the date, shows go by which dates they can book premium jet acts. Conflicting with Cleveland doesn't help either show I'm sure.
2018 already set for August 25 - 26.
We heard on the scanner yesterday "red tip propellers" for the P-3 while he was on final. Pilot said he has to return to NAS Jax, but doesn't have enough fuel and would fuel up at YIP. Got some info from one of my Florida buddies and it turns out that some of the P-3s with certain serial # propellers are under recall and those P-3s are about to be grounded and have the props sent back. They wanted to get the plane back to JAX so it wouldn't be stuck at YIP when it was grounded and have to send mx up there to fix it.
As for the Friday fly in stuff, basically you could have stayed home all day and showed up between 4:30-6:30pm, which is pretty much when 85% of the stuff arrived. I went in today, the C-46 did show up before the show and was hoping it would fly with the C-47s as I have not seen the C-46 fly in a long time. Wasn't much in the way of acts.
the stuff I did enjoy - the C-47 parachute drop and ground battle, the P-40 passes and the P-51C/Skyraider/F-86 Heritage flight. Ramp was pretty empty of aircraft though. Wish they would go back to early August, when stuff that went to Oshkosh would come to Thunder.