Warbird Information Exchange

Fighters tonight, starting with the Seafire - too bad she didn't fly all week















And the bunch that keeps them safely apart:






















Here's some general airshow stuff:

















This looked serious until they just got out, lifted the wing, pulled the gear back down, and taxied back in;



Didn't even see a scratch on the hull





That's probably about all for this year - got the bombers and lots of DC-3/C-47's if anyone's interested. Otherwise just waiting for Reno! Cheers everyone.

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Chris

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Thanks for those . I would like to see more

I'm gonna make sure my Mama sees this picture. She'll be proud her little boy got to fly in the Oshkosh airshow!

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Brad

I went to "Sloshkosh" early but my ride wanted to come home three days early so I missed most everything. It was a realy great year for fans of the T-33. I think there were 5 flyers and they were flying everyday. Two ship formations, and they looked really great. Thank you T-bird pilots!
Also great to see two A-4's in the air at the same time.

All those great planes at Oshkosh, Marine 1 and you could only see diesels?
And that from a Stearman pilot?

Seriously, I have always like the looks of T-33s, it's proportions have the classic shape of a real airplane. And the A4 has it's appeal also.
Paul Teppler was flying a friend at Fon du Lac and hard as I tried I could not discourage the friend out of his seat, even though I offered him my snappy new rent a car. Paul was nice enough to offer me a ride at Osh , but I never made the connection. I was trying to save some money and knew it would be quite a bit for the fuel cost.

Wonder how a T-33 would look with a Merlin up front?

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

That C-47 would have been the "Jungle Skippers"

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Best Regards;
Chuck Giese --- Volunteer helping to restore B-17G 44-85734 "Liberty Belle".

Dan K wrote

As much as it may LOOK like Rhonda was ripping Bob a new one, there were a number of Merlins and R-2800's running just 100 yards in either direction when I took the photo. One needs to make oneself heard in conditions like that

Also, Brad wrote

And an excellent job of flying it was! Thanks for your service. Thanks also for the response - it's feedback like that that keeps us part timers snapping and posting. Here's a few more for Mom:







Some more general airshow stuff:





The "Cat in the Hat" before his incident, introducing Jim Hagedorn and Bud Anderson:



And some from the L&O flights:













Ruff Stuff was unable to shoot down Warren Pietsch's Zero one day because of an uncooperative right main:





Fortunately the other two came down and locked OK. One of Ron Fagen's other rides (P-40)got him the day before:



BTW, John Mohr got 'shot down' by the Zero in his Stearman each day and did a pretty incredible 3-turn spin from very low altitude



Sorry if I have already posted any of these (connection at home is too slow to go back and check):





























Some bombers:











Aluminum really reflects the "Red Dot" on the runway!





This one with the "Little Friends" above might have turned out OK with a clearer sky



This B-25 is the centerfold in the latest Warbirds International:



That really is it this time - everything else is even more fuzzy and/or boring.

Take care, y'all

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Chris

Okay, I guess better late than never. Here are some of my AirVenture pics.

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-Al Sauer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythecat

HEY! Who's driving this thing???

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-Al Sauer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythecat

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-Al Sauer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythecat

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-Al Sauer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythecat

What the...?

okay, so my work computer is being weird and not letting me copy/paste info so this is where these will be left for now.

Enjoy!

You can also see all of them by going here---> http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythec ... 914853751/

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-Al Sauer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythecat

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-Al Sauer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythecat

THanks for posting Al, i look forward to seeing your pics every summer, you have a good eye.