Warbird Information Exchange

This past weekend the Flying W Airport in Lumberton, NJ hosted a small fly-in of Nanchang CJ-6 and Yakovlev Yak-50/-52/52TW aircraft for what Red Star Northeast Raiders pilot Carey O'Donnell called a "scrape off the rust fly-in." About a dozen aircraft flew in for the weekend full of formation sorties, with most of the CJ-6 and Yak-52s owners taking part in what I'd call a formation training fly-in.

Since I live about ten minutes away, I was able to go on Friday and Sunday and shoot some video of the aircraft, both on the ground and in the air. I would like to thank every one of the pilots, especially Reade and Bear for taking me up, for all of their help in making these videos possible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3YM4RCEnII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYbPPqf34M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZjaIduFRo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJPH5aAVYU

I still have to upload the Sunday flying video... but speaking of which, I had invited my friend Andrew to come on up and he also got to fly in the back seat of a CJ-6. However, Andrew and I went up in two different formation flights but at about the same time. His photos from that flight can be found at http://www.flyawayphotos.com/RedStar.htm . I hope he posts more pictures because he had a TON of great a2a shots!

A.) Wish I'd known, but B.) I was USAFR this weekend... I DID see some formation flying in the area of the pattern from the east- Pemberton-Vincentown Rd.- when I was en route home on Sunday, I think it was. (Weekend was a blur, as usual- go from night to early shift & back- things tend to jumble)

Anyway, I'm also aboput 15 mins. from the "W"- I live in Marlton... Didn't realize anyone was that close! Drop me a PM sometime-
Robbie

Here is video from the flight on Sunday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5381nMLOM

Here's some pictures I shot during the flights... took them at the same time I shot video! Sorry for the dirty canopy...