Name that airshow

[Warhawk]

I'm enjoying reading what you guy's have to say about "the good old days". I'll go back through the pack and see what else I can dig out. I went down that day with a part roll of film and enough money for gas and a hotdog at the show, that was it. I had just started my job with the state of Vermont and I wasn't getting paid a great deal what with student loan payoffs and such, but I just had to go.

Here's a couple nose art shots for you while I do some more digging:

[krlang]

Cool!

I'm glad to see that all you could say about what I wrote was that I called it a C-1A, Not An EC-1A or even the real designation as it was built as a TF1-Q then to be remarked as a EC-1A and later in life all of the 40 some odd antenna's and the ECM pods were removed making it a C-1A
Or something like that...
I love the pic of the airplane thats on the Quonset Air Museum brochure
It shows the airplane with all of its original equipment

All you could find was that?
No comment on the barrells/T-33/or even the fact that I wouldn't even enter the show , I would park on the backside of the runway for the best picture taking.

O.K. Back to reality
Great Pics Warhawk!

[krlang]

Hey!
I just noticed the T-28s in the background of the B-25 Pic
This was before he traded the T-28 for the "EZ-1A"

[Warhawk]

If you'll refer back to the very first pic I posted, two seconds after I snapped the photo that barrel was doing it's own fly by.

[Warhawk]

I was standing with the MVMVC vehicle display when I snapped that one. Half the pics I took that day were of their vehicles. I'm pretty sure I don't have the six of diamonds team taxiing out. I did try to take some of various planes in the air, but they look like fleas to that old Instamatic. Did find this though:



EDIT: By the way, while were on the subject of barrels, here are some that didn't fly away. (They were still loaded)

[Scott Rose]

I might just be delusional but are the wings excessively long on this tracker?

[Warhawk]

Just finished scanning the last of my airshow photos and I'll be uploading them over the next few days (don't want to give you too much of a good thing at one time, you'll make yourselves sick )

Heres one to look at till I get home from work tonight:

[TimAPNY]

The picture with the SNJ and the John Deer, The A-26 in the background is Rude Intruder Right? What happened to that one, I recall seeing a picture of in FL, I think, She wasn’t looking so good anymore. Also I’ve seen it listed as a ‘C’ model, didn’t they all have glass noses and the ‘B’ have the solid noses?

[James Church]

Rude Invader is indeed sitting at Reilly's place looking VERY bad. Hard to swallow seeing a warbird that had been so prominent on the airshow scene not that long ago take such a turn. As for Wolk's Panther, Lavine actually flew it quite a bit before he died in the P-51 crash in '84. It was heavily damaged in an accident at AZO a numberof years ago, and now belongs to the Air Zoo. It sits on a flatbed trailer in a t-hanger there awaiting static restoration..... sniff-sniff.... :0( Jim

[Warhawk]

Ok, Invader it is:

[krlang]

Another WOW!
There's three extremes of an airplane, Vern's Invader before polishing, I have a pic from back then after polishing, and I also have a very disappointing pic from about 8 years ago of it sitting at kissimmee with everything all opened up,
I guess if it was put aside to get the Connie up and running its OK,
but its a shame to see it go through that and not be used

now he is too busy building jets!!![/img]

[Warhawk]

The S-2 is really an Active Duty bird she came up from NAS Norfolk, belong to a Reserve Sq. and no Scott the wings are not distorted they are in the full upright swing position.

Yeah, I snapped that one as the were heading out for their turn. The wings were swinging down.

Here's one of my "flea" pictures (good thing it's aluminum and yellow):

[Ryan Keough]

Hey Warhawk,

You must have been close to the run-off taxi way to get those shots.

The big ahnger across the way is the old UPS hanger, during WWII it was a maintance hanger for 17 AND C-47.

Speaking of Manchaster my dad told me that the NH Aviation Historical Society has secured the old terminal and is going to turn it into their museum.

I'm waiting with baited breath for the next set of photos.

Cheers

Yep, it is correct about the NHAHS and the old terminal... they will be moving it (eventually) to the cul de sac over by Wiggins Airways (about where Fuddy Duddy is flying over on the side of Rwy 35) and will restore it and make it a museum. It is so surreal seeing MHT used as an airshow venue like this... it is so commercial now.

Anyone have any old pictures (pre 1990) of the Geneseo Airshow or Fuddy Duddy to share... that would really make me sentimental in a hurry.

Ryan Keough

[Warhawk]

I can't help with Geneseo Ryan as I have never been there, sorry.

As I stated earlier I was hanging out with the contingent from the Merrimack Valley Military Vehicle Collectors who had a display line right behind the Six of Diamonds team. When the general public were rounded up and hearded behind the crowd control fence, the MVMVC kept me with them and their vehicles since they new me as a member of the Green Mountain Military Vehicle Club (GMMVC). Therefore I had an unobstructed view of those going out and coming in. The only other airshow where I was so fortunate (or so I thought) was the Lebanon Lions club airshow in Lebanon N.H. I sorely wished later that I had missed that one.

This first pic shows the MVMVC lineup (partly) and it's location on the field. The second is for sentimental Ryan and hoping someone has some old Geneseo shots for him:

[RyanShort1]

other airshow where I was so fortunate (or so I thought) was the Lebanon Lions club airshow in Lebanon N.H. I sorely wished later that I had missed that one.

Now you've got me curious... enough I guess to betray my ignorance on the topic. Why did you wish you'd've missed that airshow?

Ryan Short