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They fly over my house here in Texas all the time. The Commemorative Air Force is all over Texas. My father-in-law flew the F-82, Twin Mustang, in Korea. This was his plane, Midnight Sinner.
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I paid for a ride in a B17 a few years ago, sat in the "radio room." That gear is something I know, as in the mid 60's in high school, I got my first amateur radio license. There was a lot of that WWII surplus radio gear around Very sad to hear of the crash of 909 I'll have to do some looking to find more photos. This is a photo of the stored gun above the radio room, the transmitter, and the transmitter tuning units. You pulled the one out of the transmitter and put whatever one back in which covered the frequency range on which you wanted to operate.

The transmitter is generally referred to as a "BC-375" and back when "hams" used them, they were known as a "real TVI generator" because they were pretty dirty and difficult to "clean up." In a fringe TV area they were not friends with the neighbor's TV!!!!

Low voltages for the system ran off the aircraft 24V, and high voltages were generated by "motor generators." This was a motor and a generator wound on the same armature, so you fed in 24V which motored the unit, and the generator "made" whatever whatever power for which it was designed. I don't remember what these were---something over 1000 VDC on the "final" output tubes



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You can't pick your shots!!! They come, you hear them coming, the low rumble, and they are over the house!!! And then they are gone!!

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My best photo ever Down at the Coeur d Alene beach eating lunch. had the camera set up with the 300mm f2.8. I had seconds I knew when I heard it coming "it was something." No idea what it was coming Click the link for the full size photo. You can count the rivets on the belly

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Crap I used to do. Too shakey to use these anymore These are all mirror lenses. From left, Sigma 600mm, modified to fit Canon EF mount, middle is Tamron 500mm "adaptall" and on right is Sigman 600mm modified to fit "m42" mount which is then adapted to Canon EF mount with a Chineseoationized adaptor ring

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I love old warbirds and I do a lot of digital art of them. Here are a few...

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Yesterday where I work, two P-51's flew over in formation.

NOT a regular occurrence.

A co-worker said "look there".

I asked if she knew what they were.

She said "fighter jets".

I told her they were prop, not jet and that they were 75 year old WW II era.
 
YY1 said:
Yesterday where I work, two P-51's flew over in formation..
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LOL on the other end, years ago I arrived at the Lennox HVAC joint where I worked at the time. Location is not too far from the local airport, "Boyington field" by the way. I heard a jet winding up, and looked at the manager, we were out in the parking lot. I started to say, "THAT doesn't sound like a passeng............." when the thing banged into 'burner!!!!

There was some cooked up story about an AF plane (FA18? don't recall) that had trouble and had to land there. I still think he just wanted to visit a buddy!!!

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At Pearson International waiting for a flight, I looked out the windows by the gate and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Avro Lancaster was making a full throttle low pass down a runway. So dam cool. It must have bee some kind of special occasion because Pearson is a hugely busy airport and nothing was moving while that happened.
The USAF did (does?) a heritage flight at the Canadian International airshow most years. A P-51 with an F15 on it's wing and an F22 on the F15's wing. So cool.
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We had a neat deal over here at the P&W plant in East Hartford during the summer. About 6 of the DC-3/C-47's that were flying over to Europe for the D-Day celebration flew over us at a very low altitude. They did this because they all use the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engines. P&W made about 174,000 of these 14-cylinder 1,200 HP engines during WWII. Pretty cool stuff.
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80 year-old design. Looks like a spaceship. P-38, the most beautiful aircraft design ever.
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I love 'em all...but do have a few favorites: the P-40 because of the sharkmouth nose art, the F4U Corsair because of the wing design and performance, the P-38 and P51 because of their beauty and performance. And the B-25 was my favorite bomber. I used to work with a former pilot who claimed it was really a big, twin-engined fighter.
The P-38 earned it's knickname, the "fork-tailed" devil in 1942 when it showed its versatility in North Africa. A lone hysterical German pilot surrendered to soldiers at an Allied camp near Tunisia, pointing up to the sky and repeating one phrase—“der Gableschwanz Teufl”—over and over.
 
Watching "a bridge to far" as we speak

I can't imagine the courage of the men who were in those towed gliders
 
These are some of the ones my father in law flew in WW2.
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Bob's squadron in front of P47 He's second from the right bottom row.

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This is Bob standing by his P47n. I super imposed a photo of him taken several year before he past away. It's my avatar picture.

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Bob's the 4th from the right he was co pilot of a B24

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These are some of the planes he flew in WW2
 
I still vividly remember my dad taking me to an airshow at the Sept Iles Quebec airport where the stars of the show were the RCAF Golden Hawks. I was around 6 at the time.
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The Golden Hawks were the precursors to the Snowbirds.
 
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