WHO'S P-51'S AT INDY'S FLYOVER

seaknight15 · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 12:01 pm

Could not tell who;s 51's were at Indy.Any Ideas? Great shots.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 12:07 pm

Tom Friedkin and Jim Beasley. Jim was a show guest this week along with the A-10 and F-16 pilot.

http://www.warbirdradio.com/2012/05/all ... m-eastern/

eallen · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 12:26 pm

a bit of info from the heritage flight website...

http://www.airforceheritageflight.org/b ... age-flight

http://www.airforceheritageflight.org/b ... age-flight

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 4:36 pm

Jimmy, you & Tom looked great in your flyover today, as always when I see Mustangs on TV, I was jumping with joy, just too bad the "Talking Head" on TV called you guy's "Single Seat BOMBERS". My late father, a 111 combat mission P-51 pilot would have had a come apart, had he heard that. Good Job guys!!!! :drink3:

Robbie

51fixer · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 5:55 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

Tom Friedkin and Jim Beasley. Jim was a show guest this week along with the A-10 and F-16 pilot.

http://www.warbirdradio.com/2012/05/all ... m-eastern/

It was Tom's son, Dan Friedkin who flew Fragile but Agile.

Steve T · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 9:21 pm

Well, if that's an A-36A as it appears to be, actually at least that one sort of was a "single seat bomber"...though I've no doubt not one pilot on any A-36 unit viewed the aircraft thus!

S.

51fixer · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 9:44 pm

Steve T wrote:

Well, if that's an A-36A as it appears to be, actually at least that one sort of was a "single seat bomber"...though I've no doubt not one pilot on any A-36 unit viewed the aircraft thus!

S.

Todays flight was 2 P-51Ds with an A-10 and a F-16.
From The Heritage Flight Facebook page-

From what I understand the ground attack role the A-36 played was done with gusto. They trained for it and also had the ace in the hole of being able to dogfight as well.

Steve T · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 9:48 pm

Ah, OK, the shot I saw was of a different Heritage Flight involving an Allison Mustang...

S.

51fixer · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 7:24 am

Steve T wrote:

Ah, OK, the shot I saw was of a different Heritage Flight involving an Allison Mustang...

S.

I believe that photo was from the Heritage Flight Conference that was held at DMAFB in Tucson AZ a few months ago.
It was used as a publicity shot.

Ztex · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 4:29 pm

Yeah...one must always be careful with the tv folks...yesterday they showed a photo of a flyover at the end of the race involving four F-14's !!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

Wildchild · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 5:59 pm

Anyone have video of the fly-over?

kmiles · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 9:05 am

There are at least a half dozen different videos of it on youtube. Type 2012 Indy 500 flyover in the search and you will get more than one page of results.

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