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Small Town Air Show
I thought I would share a few pictures from the local air show that was held in Willoughby, Ohio. It was held at the local municipal airport, I believe this is its sixteenth year.
http://i739.photobucket.com/albums/x...o/IMG_6760.jpg
I'm still having problems posting the pictures. Sorry...
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Ummmmmm????????? me no see no pics.
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I'm try to get them to load but having a problem. It all looks good but after I post it the Photobucket message comes up. I'll keep trying.
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For a long time our little airport was the staging area for the T-6 trainers, before heading to the EAA in Oshkosh, WI....many have been 60 or 70 war birds around practicing formations over the city for a few days.
Haven't been to a real show in a while.....my high lites at Oshkosh, involved sitting in the pilots seat in a B-29, seeing the SR-71 "Blackbird', and the Rutan Model 76 Voyager.
Hope you get the pic's up.
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During the intermission feel free to take a look at last year's participants.
http://www.photoblogs.com/topics/lost-nation-airport
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Thanks Rick, that may be the best it gets, I can't get the pictures to stick. Even the link to the album doesn't work. :angry:
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PM me a link and let me see what cookin' with it.
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OK Rick, give me a minute
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You can have two or three if you want.
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My pictures look just like those?
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I had some layin' around. You know how it is.
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My brother is a member of the EAA and loves to fly. He took us to a really small town airshow one year. It was out in the middle of farm fields with only a bunch of EAA planes the locals had. Although the show isn't as big and fancy as the one up at Hill AFB, it was free and we got to look at a lot of aircraft that someone could actually buy. Anyways, my brother tries to get to the Oshgosh show every year. I haven't been yet.
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The company I used to work for in one of my previous lives, we had a fab shop that made "flying wires" and struts for biplanes as an OEM product.
As we are located about 120 mile south of Oshkosh, we had many people go up there as" vendors"....Free passes....
That Corsair might not be the same one, but our company sponsored one like it.......
Joined the Confederate Air Force, (sponsoring war birds).......used to attend it with a VP that was a WWII bomber pilot that knew Chuck Yeager.......Always there selling his "Right Stuff" books.
I do miss those trips....so thanks for posting the pic's....I got a lot of them but would have to convert them to digital.
I did go flying with the pilot VP to get his hours......he flew with a few guys that were WWII fighter pilots.....and laughed at them when they flew across Lake Michigan for breakfast, but wouldn't go when the GPS wasn't working......refering to the times when they would get into a flying gas tank, with a couple of big guns on board, spotty radio, and a compass...launch off a carrier out over the middle of the Pacific....and think nothing of it.....Big balls when you are are 20 years old......
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Though there was no air show in our area yesterday, a P-51D Mustang made several high-speed passes over our little community. I knew what it was before I saw it -- there's no mistaking the sound of that Packard/Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. It was too far away and moving too fast to be sure, but I believe it had WWII markings.
Several years back I had the distinct (though odd) privilege of seeing a B-17 and a Heinkel-111 flying in formation over our house. This was on a Friday, and they were arriving for a 2-day air show at the nearby Point Mugu Naval Air Station.
I was born in Memphis TN and lived there until the age of 13. During that time the original Memphis Belle was on untended static display in front of the Army Reserve Center, literally "open to the public". I crawled all thru that plane. Due to vandalism, no one can get near it anymore.
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