Warbird Information Exchange

If I were the schedule maker for a one day airshow with a reasonable list of performers, I would have the following:

10am Grumman Cat missing man formation, all Grumman A/C.
11am Battle of Britian flight, Spitfires, Hurricanes, 109's, at least two each.
12noon Doolitttle flyby, a least 8 B-25's all in formation.
1pm Heavy bombers with escorts, at least 4 B-17's, 2 B-24's, 8 P-51's, 4 P-47's, have them flyby at lower altitude then climb to a high atlitude to simulate what it looked like from the ground way back when.
2pm All PTO aircraft in a flyby, 4 Hellcats in formation, 4 Corsairs in formation, 4 Avengers in formation and the rest flying by.
3pm Dogfights with P-40's, 109's, Hellcats, zero's, P-51's, straffing by P-47's and P-39's
4pm saberjets, Mig's, F9F's
5pm pass out from exhaustion.

All warbird show, no aerobatics, some reason I'm bored with that now. Duxford always has been my favorite show as of late.

Nice list (I'd say much more than 'a reasonable list of performers'), but I'd be interested to know which 'F9Fs' you were thinking of booking.

And you forgot my own personal favourites, the massed B-36 and B-58 flypasts!

It's NOT that bad, is it? ... I've been to airshows that had quite a few of my list on their schedule. See the Grumman Cat flyby thread for the F9F. I also believe there is an F9F that has been to Oshkosh a few times.

And while you're rounding up all of the Grumman cats, please don't forget to include an F-11F Tiger!

Dean the wishful

How about doing a D-Day event with say over 100 C-47's dropping sticks of the 101st etc.etc.etc. of course with 20 or P-38's for top cover

The last flyable F9F was Cavanaugh's, which is now parked I believe. There's only 1 flyable P-39 in the North America (CAF's), and 2 109s (Ed Russell's in Canada plus Harold Kindsvater's Buchon).

And I'd LOVE to go to a show with the multiples (4 of this and that) that are on your list. Can we have it in California, please, so we'll get good weather?

4 Hellcats - now that would be a sight! At Chino last year, there were 3 (CAF's, Friedkin's and Ponds). Other than Lone Star's, are there any other flyers (apart from TFC's in the UK)? I can only think of Paul Allen's (? under rebuild)

Still, as I say, it's a great list! I just hope you've got a (very) generous fuel sponsor lined up!

And a word of warning, Mudge will be popping in soon. I hear he's SERIOUSLY p1ssed that you've left the P-38s out!

You think you could squeeze Tora Tora in there somewhere.

People are going to get bored and leave. There's too much dead time in there.

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Sounds similar to the Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino to me!

Well, Mudge might be pi$$ed about the lack of GabelSchwantz Teufel's...

but as for me I am quite devastated that you've flat IGNORED the Martin B-26, oh yea and the A-20 too.

Not that I'm biased or anything, nah.

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Jase
www.b26marauder.com
"I'm having a BLAST!!" 2007 CAF Wing Staff Conference

RIP Gary Austin..always in our hearts

This show is called Oshkosh.

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