Tulsa Warbird Fly-In
Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:21 pm
Just a shameless plug-
For those in/around the Tulsa area, the Tulsa Air and Space Museum will have several local warbirds flying to the museum Saturday morning (tomorrow). They are scheduled to fly in around 10:30, when they will do some high-speed passes before landing. They will be on display all day, and will do some more display flying around 3 or so. They will also be on display and flying a bit on Sunday afternoon. Aircraft scheduled to attend include a P-51, B-25, three T-6s, a Stearman and an N3N. Might be a couple more, but no definites other than those listed. Come on out, take some photos, support the museum and have a good morning with us! I'll be there in the middle of it all. Come and find me if you're there.
kevin
For those in/around the Tulsa area, the Tulsa Air and Space Museum will have several local warbirds flying to the museum Saturday morning (tomorrow). They are scheduled to fly in around 10:30, when they will do some high-speed passes before landing. They will be on display all day, and will do some more display flying around 3 or so. They will also be on display and flying a bit on Sunday afternoon. Aircraft scheduled to attend include a P-51, B-25, three T-6s, a Stearman and an N3N. Might be a couple more, but no definites other than those listed. Come on out, take some photos, support the museum and have a good morning with us! I'll be there in the middle of it all. Come and find me if you're there.
kevin
Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:49 am
Should have given a bit more warning.
I love Tulsa and have lots of friends in the area.
always looking for a good reason to run Route 66 up there.
Just ran Hallett in my Miata, a couple weeks ago. :fun:
I love Tulsa and have lots of friends in the area.
always looking for a good reason to run Route 66 up there.
Just ran Hallett in my Miata, a couple weeks ago. :fun:
Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:50 am
Should have given a bit more warning.
I love Tulsa and have lots of friends in the area.
always looking for a good reason to run Route 66 up there.
Just ran Hallett in my Miata, a couple weeks ago. :fun:
I love Tulsa and have lots of friends in the area.
always looking for a good reason to run Route 66 up there.
Just ran Hallett in my Miata, a couple weeks ago. :fun:
Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:03 pm
Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:48 pm
looks like good weather up ther, i understand the folks down at midland are overcast.
Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:13 pm
Very nice. People wearing jackets, I'm jealous!!! High speed passes, um, can N3N's do that? 
Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:27 pm
Holedigger-
As a personal witness to the high speed passes made by the N3N, let me say that the 90+ mph speeds were utterly terrifying. Put the P-51's passes to shame.
And Hemiman- in your photo of the BT-13, if you look on the left of the photo, way, way in the background, I'm the guy in the jeans and navy blue coat talking to the photographer. I was one of the guys trying to nicely suggest that folks stay off of the taxiway. I hope that we were all nice and helpful and not jerks. The crowd seemed to have lots of fun and was well behaved. It was a beautiful day for flying. I even snuck a ride in the BT-13 at the end of the day! Thanks to some of the CAF Spirit of Tulsa squadron folks for marshalling aircraft for us!
kevin
As a personal witness to the high speed passes made by the N3N, let me say that the 90+ mph speeds were utterly terrifying. Put the P-51's passes to shame.
And Hemiman- in your photo of the BT-13, if you look on the left of the photo, way, way in the background, I'm the guy in the jeans and navy blue coat talking to the photographer. I was one of the guys trying to nicely suggest that folks stay off of the taxiway. I hope that we were all nice and helpful and not jerks. The crowd seemed to have lots of fun and was well behaved. It was a beautiful day for flying. I even snuck a ride in the BT-13 at the end of the day! Thanks to some of the CAF Spirit of Tulsa squadron folks for marshalling aircraft for us!
kevin
Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:34 pm
Is that terrifying from the ground or from the cockpit? 
Not called the Yellow Peril for Nuttin!!! Guess being on the ground would be like that scene from North by North-West! Hit the DECK!!!!!!
Not called the Yellow Peril for Nuttin!!! Guess being on the ground would be like that scene from North by North-West! Hit the DECK!!!!!!
Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:07 am
Kevin..
Remember seeing you. Beautiful day for sure, and the crowd did seem to be enjoying themselves. I talked to the father of the BT-13 owner briefly, about a wooden prop I have that supposedly came of a -13.
I'm going to try and get back out there tomorrow to watch the a/c depart.
Bill
Remember seeing you. Beautiful day for sure, and the crowd did seem to be enjoying themselves. I talked to the father of the BT-13 owner briefly, about a wooden prop I have that supposedly came of a -13.
I'm going to try and get back out there tomorrow to watch the a/c depart.
Bill
Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:32 pm
Saw a short piece about this on Fox News earlier this evening. We would have been there if Tulsa was about 400 miles closer to Bloomington, IL.
Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:59 pm
Holedigger wrote:Is that terrifying from the ground or from the cockpit?
NOW YOUR LEARNIN!!!! Ask a drooling stearman pilot as he marvals from our speed
Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:19 am
Excellent. I wish I would have known about this. It looks like Ike is back down from Canada. Too bad Brent wasn't there also.
Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:43 pm
Yeah, all it takes is over double the HP and a constant speed prop!N3Njeff wrote:NOW YOUR LEARNIN!!!! Ask a drooling stearman pilot as he marvals from our speed
Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:55 pm
Well,
I do have this prop......
I do have this prop......