THUNDER OVER MICHIGAN 2012

[TOM WALSH]

Friday Taxiway Photography - Sold Out!

Saturday Photo Tour/Photo Pit - Sold Out!

Some slots for Sunday's Photo Tour/Photo Pit are still available.

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

[michael luther]

We are very excited to have the following P-51's attending "Mustang Mania",

The Commemorative Air Force's P-51C Mustang "TUSKEGEE Airmen"
Vlado Lenoch's P-51D Mustang "Moonbeam McSwine"
The Tri-State Warbird Museum's P-51D Mustang "Cincinnati Miss"
Mike George's P-51D Mustang "Worry Bird"
Doug Matthews P-51D Mustang "The Rebel"
The Warbird Heritage Foundation's P-51D Mustang "Baby-Duck"
Tom Patten's P-51D Mustang "Sweetie Face"
Tony Buechler's P-51D Mustang "Petie 2nd"
Wes Stowers and Billy Strickland's P-51D Mustang "Ain't Misbehavin'"
The Commemorative Air Force's P-51D Mustang "Red Nose"
Tom Duffy's P-51D Mustang "KWITCHERBITCHIN"
The Cavanaugh Flight Museum's P-51D Mustang "The Brat III"
The Commemorative Air Force's P-51D Mustang "GUNFIGHTER"
Mike Henningsen's P-51D Mustang "Big Beautiful Doll"
Chuck Greenhill's P-51D Mustang "LOU IV"
Dan Fordice's P-51D Mustang "Charlotte's Chariot II"

More to be added soon!

(Just added)

[Boeing666]

Isn't Roush going to have his 2 from across the field? he has one of the few B models out there with Old Crow.

Anything else get added aircraft wise? the site hasn't been updated in ages in terms of aircraft list

[ktst97]

from this thread on April 30th:

All,
To clarify, Mr. Roush is planning on having his 2 Mustangs (P-51D 'Gentlemen Jim' and P-51B 'Old Crow')on static display for Mustang Mania.

[TOM WALSH]

Good. That makes 18 Mustangs. Hopefully, a couple more will join the cause and push the total to 20.

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

Good. That makes 18 Mustangs. Hopefully, a couple more will join the cause and push the total to 20.

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

Well, at least 16 Mustangs as flyers. Would be great to get 18 to 20 flyers in the air at the same time. It should be a very good show. Looking forward to a flying B-29, a P-38, a P-47, a LOT of P-51's AND a flying Sabre!

A couple more Mustangs and a couple more non-Mustang warbirds added to the performing aircraft list would be Great!

Just 6 1/2 weeks to the show!

[cooper9411]

How about a couple P-40's?

How about a couple P-40's?

I wouldn't complain.

[TOM WALSH]

All,

Aircraft list updated today!

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

All,

Aircraft list updated today!

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

Nice to see the two new B-25's added to the list.

[Boeing666]

What 2 new B-25s?

Georgie's Gal and Briefing Time have been on the list for a few months.

Briefing Time comes every year also, at least all of the years that I have gone - between 2005-2011 I only missed 2007.

What 2 new B-25s?

Georgie's Gal and Briefing Time have been on the list for a few months.

Briefing Time comes every year also, at least all of the years that I have gone - between 2005-2011 I only missed 2007.

Sorry if I missed that. Maybe I didn't look at the list (which didn't change for a long time each time anything was added) frequently enough. I was under the impression those two B-25's were added to the list pretty recently. Oh well, whatever.

The only year you missed was the year they had 15 B-25's. I have been there over the same period 2005-2011, but missed 2008 and 2009.

I am not a big B-25 fan, but I like to see as much variety as possible. It is looking like this year may not be one of the best ever for Thunder over Michigan, but we could still see some more additions over the next 6 weeks and I am still looking forward to a great warbird show.

[Boeing666]

Yeah I think the last update was in April or so, but I think that the B-25s were on there from even the original update. I love B-25s but I couldn't take off from vacation that year and fly up from Florida like I do every year - I didn't have enough vacation hours built up at my then new job.

2008 and 2009 were good years also. 2008 highlights from what I remember were 4 B-17s and 2 B-24s. I think that was the year with the T-2 that was supposed to do a Legacy flight with an F-18 but the F-18 kept breaking down. They had 4 P-47s also show up that year and there was a nice 4 ship P-47 formation (6 were supposed to show). A lot of planes cancelled though because a major storm front went through Detroit area on Thursday night and that prevented pretty much a lot of stuff coming from the east or south of flying in Friday.

2009: had the Lancaster a couple Spitfires, Hurricanes, RAF Mustang and Corsair from Hamilton come in and they did a Battle of Brittain show as well as a loose formation in the end. There was a pretty good Vietnam reenactment with 3 Skyraiders, AC-47, Huey and a few other Vietnam era planes. Blue Angels that year too. I split shows that year as I went to Dayton on Saturday and Thunder on Sunday.

[Mr. Scott]

JWC50 - William Ward's MiG-21 will be showing up at the Jackson County Airport in September from what has recently been said and will be based there. His MiG-17 is there now completing it's annual and will be based there as well.

JWC50 - William Ward's MiG-21 will be showing up at the Jackson County Airport in September from what has recently been said and will be based there. His MiG-17 is there now completing it's annual and will be based there as well.

Mr. Scott - And just where is "Jackson County Airport??"