What airplane did you see flying today?(airplane spotting)

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:07 pm

Airlift48 wrote:

EAA's B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" was spotted by me and other members of my Military Vehicle Club while we were trail riding around Lambertville-Ringoes-Sergeantsville area of NJ. Apparently they were at Trenton-Mercer Airport today.

We had 3 WWII Jeeps, 2 M-151's, a 1956 CJ-5, A 1979 CUCV, and a 5 ton, barreling through trails and gravel roads. We stopped for a break and I heard it, then we all saw AO go right over us. After that we had a few sightings as she conducted her flights.

What were you in??????? I was in my M151 today and I did not see crap!!

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 738

My 43 MB

ZRX61 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:16 am **Posts:** 2304

bdk wrote:

ZRX61 wrote:

2x P38's, F7F, F8F, F6F, Faux Spitfire, Zero, DC3, Porter, a metric butlload of SNJ/T6/T28's, a few of those chinese CJ6 things, B25, Corsair, P51, Staggerwing, NA50..

I was at Camarillo

Just curious why you noted the Spitfire as faux but not the Zero? They each probably have an equivalent amount of original parts and both have the wrong engine! :wink:

I think you'l find the Zero started out as a Zero....whereas the Spit didn't start out as a Spit.

& I thought I was going to witness a crash there today when the missing man Navion formation came VERY close to living up to it's name. There were a couple of seconds when i thought the missing man one was going to stall & spin in..

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11319

ZRX61 wrote:

bdk wrote:

ZRX61 wrote:

2x P38's, F7F, F8F, F6F, Faux Spitfire, Zero, DC3, Porter, a metric butlload of SNJ/T6/T28's, a few of those chinese CJ6 things, B25, Corsair, P51, Staggerwing, NA50..

I was at Camarillo

Just curious why you noted the Spitfire as faux but not the Zero? They each probably have an equivalent amount of original parts and both have the wrong engine! :wink:

I think you'l find the Zero started out as a Zero....whereas the Spit didn't start out as a Spit.

It is a matter of semantics and was intended primarily in jest. You can build a replica Spitfire using 100 pounds of original parts or reconstruct a Zero out of 100 pounds of original parts. I'm not denigrating the owners or the artisans that constructed these things. One is built to a different specification using wood instead of metal in many areas, where the other is mostly built to original specifications. Either way they are only 100 pounds authentic, or are they? Makes for an interesting question, no? I would love to fly either of them!

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:17 am

We ran up to our hometown yesterday and when we pulled up this was getting ready to leave. I didn't get the N-number, but it is based in the general vicinity of northeast Nebraska.

Go here to see the rest of the day's activities (no warbirds, though).
http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... hp?t=31672
Scott

Holedigger · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:06 pm

Well, not quite today, buzzed out to San Antonio over the last 6 days. saw several flights of T-6's doing maneuvers (Texan IIs out of Randolph), and a couple T-38s, the sadly neglected F101 in Beaumont at the Babe Didrikson Zaharias museum (sad even from Interstate 10, did not stop), and a dead Panther on a stick up in Pensacola rest stop......it was Blue.

gale_dono · **Joined:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:32 pm **Posts:** 328

Two at KLUK today:

Navion N1947U

Aerostars Yak-52TW N718PH.

67N20 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:44 pm

2 A10s landing @ Ellington at 5:30 this evening.

skymstr02 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:03 pm

Two CV-22's over down town Pensacola, then turned east over Gulf Breeze. They were at about 1,000 ft. I was on the twelth floor of my hotel and couldn't see the belly's of the aircraft.

peter · **Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:05 pm

VWOC Golden Hawks Sabre jet did about 8 passes at our local airport!

Nathan · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:01 am

Just by freak accidant I saw the Vice Presidant take off in an Air Force One 757 from Williamsport PA regional airport yesterday. I didn't know anything about it. Also saw the support C-17 aircraft. But we opted to spend some time getting something to eat first then coming back to see if it was going to take off. Yep we got almost back to the airport and I saw her already up. :cry:

Yep I had no camera either! :roll:

First time for me seeing a C-17 too.

RickH · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:58 pm

Nathan, the Vice President's callsign is AF 2, but only when he's on board. Otherwise the call sign is SAM ( Special Air Mission ) and whatever the last three of the serial # is.

Ztex · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:48 pm

The SECDEF was in town today to see the Lightning II

AA-1 overhead!

SPANNERmkV · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:25 pm

Saw the CAF SB2C fly--- from the back-seat!

And you know... I didn't mind the tramp stamp AT ALL!

:rofl:

What a BEAST... It lands faster than my Aeronca is supposed to fly in straight and level flight (95 mph.)

The PIC was saving the brakes and using the airframes' drag and tire friction to slow the roll out.
One can only imagine what it was like to stop in whatever the cable stretch was... six feet? ooooof

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:33 pm

SPANNERmkV wrote:

Saw the CAF SB2C fly--- from the back-seat!

And you know... I didn't mind the tramp stamp AT ALL!

:rofl:

What a BEAST... It lands faster than my Aeronca is supposed to fly in straight and level flight (95 mph.)

The PIC was saving the brakes and using the airframes' drag and tire friction to slow the roll out.
One can only imagine what it was like to stop in whatever the cable stretch was... six feet? ooooof

Yeah, didn't seem to mind the stamps on the Helldiver and Hellcat either when I was wingtip to wingtip with em!

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