 | Gathering of Mustangs and Legends, 2007| WWII Events Discuss Gathering of Mustangs and Legends, 2007 in the News & Announcements :: READ forums; Erich, I'll see what I can do. If nothing else I'll try to get some Pics of Lil ... |
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09-28-2007, 11:41 AM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Erich, I'll see what I can do. If nothing else I'll try to get some Pics of Lil Margaret. I am familiar with that plane. Somewhere in the pile of book I have one that covers the rebuiling of that plane to WWII Standards. Great little book, I think it was put out by Classic Motorbooks? Lots of great pictures of the plane and the rebuild. | 
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09-28-2007, 01:03 PM
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#32 | | the old Sage
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Country: | Buck I am only assuming that the 50-51 or so vet pilots will be in one area for a short time, if you find Clyde, and I can bet he would be proud, please ask him to pose if you would be the Stang, and maybe if you can find a small piece of white paper for him to sign for me with his name and 15th Recon TAc plus his # of kills. we can work this out via private maybe, can send you some funds for a photo copy for my files
hey any pics would be grand, this just might be the last we see of such a grand gathering of aces plus Mustang mounts
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09-28-2007, 01:10 PM
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Country: | OK, will see what happens. Wish I could spend more that one day at the show. Would be nice to spend an entire day wathcing the airshow and another day just talking to the Veterans.
I don't think I'll be sleeping too wel tonight in anticipation of the show tomorrow! | |
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09-28-2007, 01:17 PM
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#34 | | the old Sage
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Country: | regardless you will enjoy it beyond belief, just noted the vets are slowing coming in today. Lee Archer is there from the Tusks and Anderson/Yeager from the 357th fg having way too much fun
ooooooops I might just have taken info from back in 99's event. In any case the three aces will be present this year
have a blast man
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09-28-2007, 07:46 PM
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Country:  | I had chance to go but this overtaxed socialist couldn't afford it  , I hope the weather holds for them as it's certainly an expensive event to hold
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09-30-2007, 07:07 PM
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Country: | The show was absolutely awesome! The weather was perfect, the planes were spectacular, the flying was magical! What a wonderful, wonderful day! | |
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09-30-2007, 09:26 PM
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#37 | | the old Sage
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Country: | did you meet any of the pilot/vets first hand ?
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09-30-2007, 10:05 PM
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Country: | Spent the day at the Gathering on Saturday. Awesome is all I can say. P-51's as far as the eye could see. Not sure if they made 100 birds, but it had to be close. Patty Wagstaff put on an excellent show in a P-51C, I think it was Princess Elizabeth? F-16's, F-15 flybys in full afterburn mode, still can't hear correctly.
F-22 Raptor Demo, what an amazing aircraft that is!!! B2 Flyover, that bird just does not look real as it flys over your head.
It was fun to hear the differenced between the growl and power diving Merlin, the purr of the Allison powered P-38 and P-40, the sheer power or the P-47 Thunderbolt, and the roar of a B-25 was awesome.
Finale of Saturdays show was a flight of 20 P-51's in the formation that was in the form of a giant 51 in the air.
I was told today there would be 51 Mustangs in the air at one time, that would have been impressive to see.
Still in the process of looking over my pics, will post some when I get them figured out. | |
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09-30-2007, 10:22 PM
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#39 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | I heard that the official count for the event peaked at 83.
__________________  http://www.vg-photo.com 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. | |
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10-01-2007, 09:52 AM
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Country: | Not sure, but there were a whole bunch of them. More than will ever be gathered in one spot again I'm sure. I did make one drastic mistake and formatted one of my memory cards with aroung 50 pics on it, the best of which was three lovely young ladies dressed to the hilt in 40's style dress. Man, that was hard to deal with. Hoping to be able to recover that bunch or pics, mostly in flight stuff. | |
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10-01-2007, 11:37 AM
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10-01-2007, 11:54 AM
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Country: | OMG!!!! I have goosebumps. Those are great!!!!!!! | |
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10-01-2007, 12:13 PM
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Country: | AirshowBuzz.com
Go over to Air Show Buzz © - Get the latest news on Air Shows & Aviation, lots of pics and a few vids from the gathering over there. Hope to post some pics as soon as I can re-size them and hopefully recover some more from a Digital memory card I formatted by mistake. | |
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10-01-2007, 05:54 PM
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#44 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | Awesome clips, got goosebumps as well... Thanks for the clips Roman..
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10-01-2007, 11:12 PM
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#45 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Cool!  Nothing like plopping down at the computer desk with a bag 'o microwave popcorn to watch some P-51 clips.
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