1990 Breckenridge video

Ztex · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 10:06 am

I started digitizing some of my old VHS stuff... this video is from the Saturday "fly-in" part of the 1990 Breckenridge, TX
airshow....I didn't make the Sunday show that year...so this is all I've got

Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/xqy5T6t6wYA

dors · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 10:37 am

Great stuff Zane :drink3:

MKD1966 · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 10:55 am

Excellent Zane !!! More - More - More !!!

k5dh · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 12:53 pm

Breckenridge... ah, yes, those were the days! We'll never see warbird gatherings like that again.

Mark Allen M · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 12:59 pm

C170BDan · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 6:59 pm

I agree... not sure if we will see that type of Warbird gathering again.... UNLESS they have another Breckenridge show. We were allowed to be right WITH the airplanes and be close to the action.

Great video, Zane. I think I saw my Dad in your video which means I was right near by!

Here is my small gallery of photos from 1990.

https://picasaweb.google.com/dtlinn/Bre ... directlink

slinky · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 8:19 pm

I loved loved Breckenridge airshows....We'd get there about Thursday so we could be there for the arrivals and just hang out. The trip to Connies place in his PBY, the evening dinners, the aerial antics....what a time. Forever cherished in my memory.

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 9:49 pm

Try to bring a potato gun to the POF show on a Saturday night or buzz the hangar. Sadly there are a few aircarft show longer with us....

slinky · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 10:11 pm

Lynn Allen wrote:

Try to bring a potato gun to the POF show on a Saturday night or buzz the hangar... :wink:

LOL!!!! Or try to fire off a .50 cal mounted on a half track into the night sky!!!!!

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 10:18 pm

slinky wrote:

Lynn Allen wrote:

Try to bring a potato gun to the POF show on a Saturday night or buzz the hangar... :wink:

LOL!!!! Or try to fire off a .50 cal mounted on a half track into the night sky!!!!!

Or the Bud Girls at the bar...

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 671

Great video. Like many of you my first thought was how close people were allowed to the runway. Them was the days before the ruled and regualted the fun out of airshows.

I saw Dave Forrest's former Skyraider in those shots, an aircraft now with MAM. The TBM looks to be another MAM warbird now, I believe it belonged to Gary Applebaum back then.

Cool, cool video.

Chappie

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 2:30 pm

Chappie wrote:

Great video. Like many of you my first thought was how close people were allowed to the runway. Them was the days before the ruled and regualted the fun out of airshows.

I saw Dave Forrest's former Skyraider in those shots, an aircraft now with MAM. The TBM looks to be another MAM warbird now, I believe it belonged to Gary Applebaum back then.

Cool, cool video.

Chappie

Snack Bar Snider was also flying one back then as well....

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 5:24 pm

Or drunk crawl begging thru The Ridge!

kingpin · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 5:54 pm

Wow what a trip down memory lane! At the 6:05 mark in the video is 2 of the 3 planes we flew down from Kenosha Wisconsin. Marion Gregory and his T-6, Faye Gregory and her T-34, and Terry Adams in his T-6. What a kick ass time.

Glen

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