quasi Report This Comment Date: March 24, 2012 03:12PM
Part of an aerobatic team at the airshow flying over the house.
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fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: March 24, 2012 03:22PM
they have one of these at the Cavanaugh flight museum near my house that you
can climb in and sit in the cockpit...pretty cool.
Miig
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BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: March 24, 2012 09:26PM
That would be pretty cool. Were all the labels in Russian? I've been to a few
aviation and space museums and got to sit some different cockpits. They are
always so much fun. They are all pretty amazing even just to look at.
In the Navy I sat in a whole lot of A7 Corsair II cockpits. Not as a pilot but
as a tech. I even got to sit in one in full tie-downs and crank the the throttle
up to full military (110%) power during some engine/wiring/avionics
vibration/stress testing. Fucking scarey power! It was nothing compared to a lot
of other jets at the time, much less today.
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fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: March 24, 2012 10:48PM
Cavanaugh has 2 of the 6 (i think) fully operational Corsairs in the country,
and they are absolutely beautiful.
the Mig is pretty trashed out, but still cool to sit in.
quasi Report This Comment Date: March 25, 2012 12:14AM
There's a B-29 on static display at the show. I'd love to get in that. Missed
getting a photo of it in flight the other day, hoping I can get one when it
leaves.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: March 25, 2012 03:38AM
memorial day they always have a Zero being chased by 2 P-40's and a tiger, then
the zero blows out a plume of smoke and dives.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: March 25, 2012 11:35AM
Not long after I moved here I was outside and heard a plane comin over and knew
it waddn the usual Piper or Cessna from just the sound 'cause it was waay
louder. I looked up to see what it was and lo and behold it was a friggin P-51
Mustang! I stood there and watched him till he flew outta sight since I've
always really appreciated those awesome planes.
My B-in-law says there's a local contingent of the Confederate Air Force here
locally and that this cat was one of 'em. The other day I saw another one of
their guys flyin around in some type of WWII era cargo plane but I dunno what it
was. It's awesome to see vintage birds like that boppin around in the local sky
