CAF Airsho Photos From The Past

[Steve Nelson]

About those P-47 pix...all had electric props WITH the blade chord extensions.

So was extra metal actually added to existing prop blades? One of those planes is now in the Kalamazoo Air Zoo..I noticed the blade surface looks a little..I guess you'd call it "lumpy" toward the trailing edge.

SN

[John Kerr]

Wrong photo posted as N47DB. Here is the correct one. P-47D, N47DB, 45-49167 (now at USAF Museum) Harlingen, TX, Oct 73 John Kerr

[John Kerr]

Casno 42 requested some CAF PBY shots. Here are a few.

1. PBY-6A N15KL 64000 San Marcos, TX Sep 73 John Kerr


2 thru 4 PBY-6A N16KL 63998 Harlingen TX Oct 82 John Kerr

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[Second Air Force]

Doug,

Sorry, I didn't take time to snap more photos of N16KL that morning in 1984--I planned on taking a few more when they got back.

Scott

[Robbie Stuart]

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Robbie

[Second Air Force]

Keep 'em coming, Robbie! (And everyone else, too.)

Here are the last three '84 pictures I have that are somewhat worth posting.

Saturday:



Sunday:


Scott

[Robbie Stuart]

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Carl Payne



Rick Sharpe getting Archie Donahue ready to fly the Corsair. I believe this was Archie's first flight in a Corsair in a long time.



Howard Pardue



My buddy Merle Gustafason after his first flight in the Buchon. Miss you Merle!



Some guy working on the Buchon. (Back when I had hair)



Taken from the back of our Cajun Wing SNJ-4, N224X, (Sorry I do not remember who was flying)
In Steve Gustafason's "German 6", Ben Cunningham flying with Julie ???? in back.

In the P-47, Merle Gustafason

In Merle's Corsair, Doug Hall

Those were the days!

Robbie

[Cripes A Mighty]

Another Luftwaffe bird we'll call it a FW-34


Some more bomber shots




Is this Aluminum Overcast?????


The Mossie

[Ztex]

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SJ Before






Now at Cavanaugh

[BCalmes]

What became of the remains of N16KL? The warbird registry website says it was destroyed.

I lived in Houston when it crashed, and friends had gone to that airshow. The Houston newspaper said it hit an oil pipe stand (whatever that is) in the gulf and flipped on its back.

[retroaviation]

Nope. Got too low to the water on a photo pass. Nosegear well filled with water (instantly) and flipped the airplane, at speed. Very bad.

Gary

[Jack Frost]

I was at HRL that year too and the word I got was that it hit a shallow, submerged sand bar that Laguna Madre is noted for.

[skymstr02]

Nope. Got too low to the water on a photo pass. Nosegear well filled with water (instantly) and flipped the airplane, at speed. Very bad.

Gary

I've seen a series of still photos when that happened from the camera ship. When the nose wheel well filled, the nose dug in, and the fuselage bent in the middle, just aft of the main gear wells. The wing lift struts buckled and then the airplane swapped ends.

[retroaviation]

I was at HRL that year too and the word I got was that it hit a shallow, submerged sand bar that Laguna Madre is noted for.

It very well could've hit a submerged sandbar, pipe, or whatever. The fact is that it had to be in the water in order to hit one of those things, and being in the water at or around cruise speed is not a good place to be.

Gary

[Jack Frost]

[fact is that it had to be in the water in order to hit one of those things, and being in the water at or around cruise speed is not a good place to be.

Gary

Agreed, Gary and it seems like I remember that the guys flying weren't qualified for water operations in the PBY either.