Warbird Information Exchange

The car belongs to America's Car Museum (LeMay's).
Myself and a bunch of local StudeGuys are restoring it for them.
We've hit a few snags, and the progress of late is slow- but it's coming along.
They made it very clear from the start- they are handling the publicity.
Here's one way they are doing that~

http://www.lemaymuseum.org/page.php?id=419



Those guys do know how to put on a show- even if just in transist, eh.
Thanks for the reminder- I can't believe it's time for that already- where has the Summer gone?
I just might have to work that into my schedule somehow.

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On Monday I went out to see the locals depart for Blakesburg.
Pemberton's Boeing 40, Larry's laird, and a few transiting from the coast...including the beautiful Ryan SCW. Wow, what a plane!
Also a Stinson 10, Command-Aire, Waco biplane, Stearmans, Cubs, and a nice restored 50 Pacer with a correct 53 paint scheme.
I love the old GA 50s paint schemes. I'd like to see more planes restored with their original schemes..instead of trying to make them to look newer.


Tuesday: Beaver on Amphibs....heading away from the area lakes.
The pilot left the wheels down (probably not a bad idea if you're going from land to land...since you can't forget to lower them).
Ther used to be one based here, owned by a somewhat older guy with lots of neat GA toys. He suddenly passed away from cancer and everything was sold.

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.
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I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

Not to blow my own horn, but as a Avanti owner, I made a donation to the project.

Also, I saw it as the green paint was being stripped....yikes, what a color!

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.
Note political free signature.
I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

Hey I'll jump in here and start posting as well.I always look up when I hear the sound of a plane.

My daughter saw this guy come across heading north,I am in Brighton Michigan.

1500 9/13/12
PBY tanker 85 out of KAWI out doing steep turns and cruising along Northbound @ about 6000 AGL, wonder if it's getting checked to see if it's good to go to work some of the 90+ fires in Eastern Washington.

***This really needs to made a sticky, it was 5 pages deep when I went trying to find it and it is pretty popular-MODS??????********

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It's kinda odd to be sitting in the computer room and you hear 'something' way, way down low and soft and you think 'that sounds big and round and like more than one...'but you know from the tone it's not 2 R-2800's, so Bad Kitty is out, but it's not 2 R-2600's so BUSTER and GRUMPY are out, OK, grab the binocs, go out on the deck and start scanning the very smoke hazed up skies and catch it in a 30 degree bank doin' a 360 all very stately and slow. Then watch it steam away at a majestic rate.

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This C-130 flew over my back yard earlier this week. I live about 15 miles from Hurlburt Field, FL. But I know very little about USAF aircraft so I will not venture a guess on what it is or what it was doing.

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The Breaks of Naval Air-Skid Marks in the Sky

We have a new winner in the UGLY airplane contest. I thought Nimrods were bad. FUUUUGLY!!!

From the svelte beauty of the "Roman nose" YC-130 to Fugly...poor girl.

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Considering the finish, mods, markings and prominent nose...wherever she's going...who ever she looks at when she gets there, won't know they're being looked at and won't know she was there in the first place...and when she gets back to where she came from....you didn't see it!

Wasn't flying, but I swore I saw a Volga Antonov parked on the ramp at Detroit Metro this morning.

I saw an interesting two-ship formation pass by my house early this afternoon... a pair of classic Bellanca taildragger monoplanes! One was silver with red trim (it lives at our local airport, Lakeview 30F) and other was all bright yellow. Neato!

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

Mustang with invasion stripes heading westbound over Fullerton, Ca about 1:15 today. Must have been cooler up there, it was 102 on the ground (and 106 in Chino where it was likely coming from).