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JimH
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We departed Ft Collins yesterday morning after spending the entire day Wednesday fixing the left mag on #1. After doing one last flight out of Ft. Collins we loaded the airplane and headed to Jefco to give her a well deserved bath. It was then off to Spirit of St Louis for our first fuel stop.

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jeremy and mark work thier magic on the mag

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ready to depart Ft Collins

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it really IS green and grey!!!

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somewhere over the midwest

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Spirit of St Louis...

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Man, the B-25 sure looks great. Sweet pics man, keep them coming.

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We started at 8am...departing Spirit at around 9am... a moment of panic ensued as I went to photograph our preflight when my Nikon took a dump...fortunately it was just a dead battery!!!

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Spirit departure...backup canon

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techically we were the 3rd Mitchell there...I can't begin to describe how cool it was to taxi in amongst all the other warbirds

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whole lot of tails

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whole lot of noses

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fighters too!!

this is going to be one cool weekend!!!!

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Some of those shots look like scenes from 30 seconds over Tokyo. Very cool.

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I'll have to double drool ya'..... just AWESOME! Alan

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You are making me cry! The pictures are wonderful but they could look even better with a splash of blue.

Luck dog!

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I believe it got booked to do a show at Scott AFB, IL this weekend. :(

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teaser....Mark Henley and I had the privilege of flying lead in the "V"...I gave my camera to Wayne P and told him not to be shy...awesome day!!!!

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Jim,

The head on mass pass was spectacular from the ground. I’m so glad I was ablw to witness it. Everyone did a great job.

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Nice photos Jim. I bet you guys are having a lot of fun. In the second photo it looks like you are cruising at almost 9400'. I bet that was nice and cool!
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Neon, I got a secret for ya, flying in front wasn't a priviledge, the guys behind you just wanted to be able to keep an eye on you guys ! :P
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