Fighter Factory to put on a show!

[Warbird Kid]

If it wasnt so far South i'd try and make it to one of the most dynamaic museums ive witnessed being built up!

http://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org/e ... rshow.html

[Mudge]

I'm not finding a line-up of what a/c will be flying? Am I looking in the wrong place? Has the line-up not been posted yet?

Mudge the confused

[Dan K]

I'm not finding a line-up of what a/c will be flying? Am I looking in the wrong place? Has the line-up not been posted yet?

Mudge the confused

Mudge, does your wife ever hint at how difficult you can be sometimes?

It's FIGHTER FACTORY! Clicking on the following should give you a little idea of what should be flying:

http://www.fighterfactory.com/airworthy ... ghters.php

http://www.fighterfactory.com/airworthy ... ombers.php

http://www.fighterfactory.com/airworthy ... ainers.php

http://www.fighterfactory.com/airworthy ... iaison.php

http://www.fighterfactory.com/airworthy ... -other.php

[AIRIC]

I would assume it’s all of Yagen’s aircraft. Has the Fighter Factory changed its name to the Military Aviation Museum?

Eric

[P51Mstg]

I'd love to see the V-1 Buzzbomb fly....... But I'm in Chino that weekend....

Anyone else bringing their airplanes?

Mark H

[Steve T]

Eric--

I think the original Yagen operation at Suffolk is still The Fighter Factory, while the new base at Virginia Beach is the Military Aviation Museum, but I could be wrong about that...Sounds like a cool event!

S.

[Mudge]

I'd love to see the V-1 Buzzbomb fly....... But I'm in Chino that weekend....

Anyone else bringing their airplanes?

Mark H

I KNEW that date sounded familiar. Chino for me, too.

Mudge the forgetful

I'm not being difficult. The website that the link directs me to says nothing about the Fighter Factory.

[Warbird Kid]

It seems that Jerry Yagen's involvment with multiple organizations that are somehow connected is extensive! Personally i love these updates on the WW I projects! http://www.aimschool.com/

Is anybody going to be in the area for the show?

[Robbie Roberts]

It seems that Jerry Yagen's involvment with multiple organizations that are somehow connected is extensive! Personally i love these updates on the WW I projects! http://www.aimschool.com/

Is anybody going to be in the area for the show?

The one my school is doing is pretty much a dry joke at this time- Only one person is really qualified to weld it, so we have a partially assembled bunch of longerons and stringers forming two unincorporated sies of the aircraft. Once the welding is done, it is planned for the students to do the rest. We are only a year or so behind, as the guy who can weld is now a department head and never has the time! With warmer weather coming, I am hoping to get the da*mn thing, "Off the ground" shall we say?

Robbie

[k5083]

Always good to have another show on the calendar.

I check in on the WWI projects frequently. When I first heard about it I thought, what a great way to combine getting some skills for the kids with building the museum collection. A lot of the projects seem to be kind of stalled though. If not enough progress is made during a given kid's school year, I can imagine interest starts to flag. It would seem to me that what each project would need would be one or two totally gung ho kids with no girlfriends or lives who would just spend every spare hour working on the plane, learning whatever skills were necessary (e.g. the welding Robbie mentioned). Then the bird would get done and those one or two kids would be wizards. But I'm sure it's not as easy as I think.

August

[Jens Erik]

Hmmm. They have a strange description under the Hawker Sea Fury.

They state that it "traces its design to a German Focke-Wulf FW that was captured when a German pilot mistook a British airfield for a Luftwaffe landing site. The naval variation included the hook for carrier landing and folded wings. Impressed with the Focke-Wulf, the British designed the Fury with a Centaurus radial engine."

As far as I remember the sea fury was the evolutionary successor to the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest.

[Liza]

I think the original Yagen operation at Suffolk is still The Fighter Factory, while the new base at Virginia Beach is the Military Aviation Museum, but I could be wrong about that...

That sounds correct.

[planenutti]

The weekend for the show at Virginia Beach is an air show heavy weekend on the east coast. Andrews and Cherry Point are also that weekend. It will be good for the reenactors as it will be just a few week until Reading. As I live in the area I will be there and get a report out soon after the event. Best guess is that the line-up will mainly be planes from the museum as this will be their first time into the fun filled world of putting on a show. I wish them all the luck in the world, a local warbird show on a grass strip in a country setting, will be sweet.

[Enemy Ace]

When the B-25 was at the AIM hangar in Atlanta the students were forbidden to touch the airplane. It even had police tape around it so the kids couldn't see what their tuition money had bought.
I have never heard of any students getting to work on a plane in the collection. I hope it happens but I never saw it. Just another hook used to lure in the potential student loan applicants.
I hope anyone who has ever put their money with that organization to try and get an education is allowed in free. That's the least they can do.
I personally will never go to a show there or support it because of what I have seen in that organization. That may be too strong for this forum but that's just my opinion.

[Mark V]

I personally will never go to a show there or support it because of what I have seen in that organization.

OK, in contrast, I do everything I can to support this wonderful organisation, it does amazing work in preserving, restoring and displaying these aircraft and associated hardware, artefacts and even buildings.