WHO'S P-51'S AT INDY'S FLYOVER

[seaknight15]

Could not tell who;s 51's were at Indy.Any Ideas? Great shots.

[mustangdriver]

Tom Friedkin and Jim Beasley. Jim was a show guest this week along with the A-10 and F-16 pilot.


http://www.warbirdradio.com/2012/05/all ... m-eastern/

[eallen]

a bit of info from the heritage flight website...

http://www.airforceheritageflight.org/b ... age-flight

http://www.airforceheritageflight.org/b ... age-flight

[Robbie Stuart]

Jimmy, you & Tom looked great in your flyover today, as always when I see Mustangs on TV, I was jumping with joy, just too bad the "Talking Head" on TV called you guy's "Single Seat BOMBERS". My late father, a 111 combat mission P-51 pilot would have had a come apart, had he heard that. Good Job guys!!!!
Robbie

[51fixer]

Tom Friedkin and Jim Beasley. Jim was a show guest this week along with the A-10 and F-16 pilot.


http://www.warbirdradio.com/2012/05/all ... m-eastern/

It was Tom's son, Dan Friedkin who flew Fragile but Agile.

[Steve T]

Well, if that's an A-36A as it appears to be, actually at least that one sort of was a "single seat bomber"...though I've no doubt not one pilot on any A-36 unit viewed the aircraft thus!

S.

[51fixer]

Well, if that's an A-36A as it appears to be, actually at least that one sort of was a "single seat bomber"...though I've no doubt not one pilot on any A-36 unit viewed the aircraft thus!

S.

Todays flight was 2 P-51Ds with an A-10 and a F-16.
From The Heritage Flight Facebook page-

From what I understand the ground attack role the A-36 played was done with gusto. They trained for it and also had the ace in the hole of being able to dogfight as well.

[Steve T]

Ah, OK, the shot I saw was of a different Heritage Flight involving an Allison Mustang...

S.

[51fixer]

Ah, OK, the shot I saw was of a different Heritage Flight involving an Allison Mustang...

S.

I believe that photo was from the Heritage Flight Conference that was held at DMAFB in Tucson AZ a few months ago.
It was used as a publicity shot.

[Ztex]

Yeah...one must always be careful with the tv folks...yesterday they showed a photo of a flyover at the end of the race involving four F-14's !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wildchild]

Anyone have video of the fly-over?

[kmiles]

There are at least a half dozen different videos of it on youtube. Type 2012 Indy 500 flyover in the search and you will get more than one page of results.