Warbird Information Exchange

Once again, I'd like to request that photographers and Warbird fans share your photos of TOM 2012 here. The Oshkosh 2012 thread was in my view fantastic for bringing back Airshow photos to WIX. I thank all of you ahead of time and if I get to go for a day, I'll share my photos here.
David Staffeldt
WHF Maint

Got here a little after 4 this afternoon and got to Ecorse just in time for Fifi!
















Yankee Warrior has been very active, when I left to come back to the hotel there were four Mustangs up, two Stearmans, and it looked like two T-6's and a BT-13/15 were taking off as I was pulling out.

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It will be a while before I can get mine up, I would like to edit them before I upload them anywhere because of their raw image size. I was out there from 10:30am until around 8pm.

I went ahead and resized a few copies, but still are not edited/centered/sharpened, otherwise are raw but resized images

Just got back from T.O.M. it was very enjoyable, especially to see and hear FiFi doing fly-bys. I'll try to get my pictures posted sometime this evening(hopefully)!

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A&P/I.A., A.A.S./Aviation Maintenance technology
Warbird salvage/recovery
One day I'll get that P-40!

Just one before we head out for dinner.

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

Just a couple from today...

FIFI



One of my "lay on the ground and take a picture of a taxiing aircraft" shots.


PETIE 2nd


-Nathan

My stuff doesnt even compare to you guys!







Can someone confirm these show up? Only have a few shots on facebook at the moment, not sure if they show up for all, if at all

I see three showing up.

My main camera died halfway during the Mustang fly bys, had to go to my back up camera.

A few more from Saturday

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

Nice to see Art getting his Harrier a bit further from home. Now if only we could see him doing a "dueling Harrier" routine with one of the USMC AV-8B's.

Just talked to my Dad, he went both days. Said if he would've only gone today he would've been "pissed." Lots of down time between acts, poor timing of launching the Mustangs for the battle and too many aircraft didn't fly. Yesterday there was a warbird flight with the P-38, P-47s, Corsair, B-17 and B-25s. Apparently only the P-38 flew today, and the Thunderbolts only flew during the battle. He left before the Harrier flew, and with the down time between the Mustangs and Harrier he said a LOT of people left because they thought the show was over. Doesn't sound good. Wonder what happened?

That said, he really enjoyed the show Saturday. Loved the P-47s, sounded like the Mustang flight was very good, and Vlado was exceptionally good as always. He really enjoyed seeing the B-29 and the B-25s being involved. Also said the F-86 demo was as good as he's ever seen. He was pretty psyched about how good the show was yesterday.

I didn't get to go this year, so I'm just basing this off what my Dad said. Not trying to stir the pot or anything, just basing this off what he told. He said Saturday was very good, and Sunday was a "comedy of errors" and just not a very good show.

Again, just relaying what I was told so don't shoot the messenger. He's hoping someone from Thunder will be able to explain what happened with all the down time and why so few of the aircraft flew today as compared to yesterday.

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Matt

Thanks everyone for posting pictures for those of us that couldn't attend. Eric, is the BT-13 doing rolls?

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Roger Cain
www.sfahistory.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stearman/


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