Warbird DisplaysDiscuss Wings Over Addison 6/30/07 in the World War II - Aviation forums; This was Cavanagh Flight Museum's cool little airshow flying all of their in-house planes. I got some really ...
This was Cavanagh Flight Museum's cool little airshow flying all of their in-house planes. I got some really cool shots of the airborne planes using a Canon point 'n shoot camera. I have another thread from a while ago with good shots of the static displays so I won't put them here. There was a special demonstration of an M-50 Super Sherman that was built by the U.S. in '42 and eventually found itself in Israel. They fitted a 500hp diesel to it and a 105mm gun. It saw service in the Six Day War. Another highlight was talking to a former SR-71 pilot who was promoting a book of his. There is a really cool painting I'm sure some of you have seen (but I can't it find to post here) of three Foxbats trying to catch a Blackbird. They didn't catch it. He was piloting that plane. What would they have done if they caught it, wave? Interestingly, he said that no Blackbird ever flew over mainland Russia or China. After that U-2 was shot down no U.S. president would authorize a flight over either country. We got border shots but nothing more. We did happen to get intelligence pics over just about every country on the planet just because we could. I asked what it sounded like up there. He said you could only hear your co-pilot, and if there was strict radio silence, you couldn't even hear yourself breathe. Fastest machine on the planet and it's dead quiet. Eerie, eh? Enjoy!
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group
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"A good fighter pilot, like a good boxer, should have a knockout punch..... You will find one attack you prefer to all others. Work on it till you can do it to perfection... then use it whenever possible." - Captain Reade Tilley, USAAF 7 Victories, WW-II -
Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda.
"Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts"
Sir Winston Churchill
"To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today"
Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London
Most of those planes are there all the time. The C-47 and the Skyraider are not. The Hellcat is new and was there about 3 months ago. I don't know if it's a full time resident now.
Glad you enjoyed them. I wish they'd get that he-111 up in the air but it's such a rare catch that they will never risk it I don't think.
Don't forget to take a look at the movies at the bottom of the first post, they sound pretty good.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group
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