SMTCapeCod

There's clearly a race/charity event in there somewhere....but I guess the two continents thing would be tough to overcome absent some creative webcasting.

por917

Looked like a great time Greg! It makes me remember the time I got to go for a flight in a T6 Texan=Good Times

Dave928S

I'm very jealous Greg. Your description of a low pass brought memories flooding back of when I was 10 and went flying with my Dad, from a country airstrip. One of the planes he flew was a Tiger Moth, and we'd fence and tree hop, chase rabbits, and do low (about 6 - 10 foot up) long runs along the nearby beaches.

S4ordie

Hey Greg, Thought about you today. My eye doc is a member of the Red Star aerobatic team. His plane is a Chinese CJ-6A. He keeps it here in the Phoenix area with a few other CJ-6's. The 9 cylinder engine in his plane was found new in a crate in Finland a few years ago. It is a Russian M-14P, one of the better engineered radial engines that was put into numerous Soviet and other Communist era aircraft (Yak 18, Yak 52, Yak 55M, Sukoi 26).

The Russians have a saying about that engine, "Strong like donkey, smart like tractor". I'm sure some of the humor is lost in the translation to English.

These planes are like 928's, not so expensive to buy but can be crazy expensive to own and maintain properly. Many parts are NLA so require lots of fabrication and international barter.

blown 87

I think I would have to put my money on the entry from North American Aviation on the race.

All kidding aside, it really was a nice day, and his Fennec T-28 is one of the nicest old warbird restorations I have ever been around, and I have been around a few of them.

Cliff, the owner of the airplane says next month on one day when it is not really cold we will go play with another T-28, a C model and do some air to air stuff, so it should be a really good time to take pictures if we are not going to be chasing each others tails, which I bet we will end up doing.

blown 87

One other thing, we did a fly by at a friend of
Cliff's gas airstrip, dove in from about 2,000 AGL and pulled up at about ten feet, flew down the airstrip and did a pull up at the other end, I saw over 6,000 foot per minute climb on a rate of climb indicator, which is really impressive.

leonard928

For some great sounding aircraft you really can't go past the world war two era!

Aussies had their own little warbird, called the Boomerang. Here's a little video I shot that captures the sounds during a flying day at Temora Airfield in New South Wales, Australia. Listen for the 'blue' note!

Sorry for the video quality, shot with a little stills camera.

http://youtu.be/2Q0Q-DRJASc

blown 87

Those guys flew at the Great Georgia Airshow this year, pretty good routine they did.

blown 87

I have never seen a Tiger Moth in person, very rare over here.
I would love to fly one.

blown 87

It is way cool to be sitting in the cockpit, counting blades, waiting for the billowing of smoke and the noise and vibration that come with it, it really is wonderful to hear, feel and smell it on a clear, crisp day.

Sorry about no video, I was inside the airplane.

blown 87

I have read about the Boomerang, but have never seen one in person.
Thanks for the video BTW, pretty neat stuff.

MGW-Fla

Way cool, I'm jealous too! Had plans to ride in a T-6 a couple years ago, but it didn't happen. I got to sit in a P-51 that same year at an airshow here & thought I'd died & gone to heaven. My family didn't understand why that was such a big deal to me. But somehow that now sounds very weak to what you've described. One day I'd love to afford going to Stallion 51 here in Fla where they have 30 & 60 min. rides in two seat P-51s. Would say that is definitely a bucket list item.

Btw, the Collings Foundation is also flying a ME-262. Haven't seen it at any of their airshows here yet though. http://www.collingsfoundation.org/ma_me262.htm

MGW-Fla

Here's a pic I took of some Yaks at an airshow a few yrs ago.
Also have some shots of a T-28 decked out in Navy colors on the tarmac at a show.

blown 87

The guy that owns the T-28, Cliff, his son is one of the pilots for the Collins Foundation and fly's their P-51, which I though was really cool.

BTW, that ME-262 is not a restoration, it is a replica and a damn fine one.
here is a link to the long, and difficult build, if you go back on the build to where it starts, it will take a while to read it all and look at all the pics, but it is a great read if you like airplanes.

http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html

MGW-Fla

I've been to two shows where Collings participated. They have an awesome P-51; B-17; B-24; & B-25, among others. They also have an F-4 Phantom, hope one day to see & hear that one too.