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Pat McGarry with Will Whiteside in the back seat flying
Robert Russell’s Grumman TBM-3E Avenger with Steve Hinton flying “top
cover” in the Comanche Fighters Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat at the 2011 Planes
of Fame Airshow. This year’s show is on May 5 & 6, 2012. |
| 2. |
Built from some 250 other Mustangs’ parts, Scott
"Scooter" Yoak is seen flying North American P-51D Mustang “Quick
Silver”. Quick Silver is a lasting tribute to all veterans! Bill Yoak
built Quick Silver during a lengthy restoration, the Mustang made its
debut in 2007. The fact that Bill Yoak is a master metal craftsman
reflects, quite literally in each and every panel and rivet that make up
Quick Silver. It is a look, touch, smell kind of airplane and the Yoaks
encourage people to look, touch and climb onto the aircraft at airshows,
while they explain what each color, marking and paint layout represent.
It is a patriotic Mustang, built by a patriotic father, and flown by a
patriotic son thankful for every freedom they enjoy. |
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An accident with a P-47 Thunderbolt in 1942 at the Iron
Range Repair Depot in Queeensland, Australia, unknowingly saved this
Curtiss P-40N from going to the scrappers, and instead it was pushed
aside while parts were salvaged from it until being saved in the early
1970's. Restored by Chris Prevost, it is seen over Sonoma CA with Denis
Arbeau along for a ride in the Warhawk, which has been converted to dual
controls as a TP-40N. |
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Jim Harley is seen flying the Collings Foundation's B-24
Liberator near Stockton, California, during Bomber Fantasy Camp that is
hosted by Taigh Ramey. During this event, a number of re-enactors spend
a day going through gunnery school, followed the next day by going up in
the Liberator and dropping dummy bombs on ground targets, and firing
blanks through the .50 caliber machine guns. |
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New Zealand’s only flying North American T-28 Trojan,
flown by Rob Silich, is seen over the Hauraki Gulf area. In formation
with him is Andrew Hope flying a North American Harvard. The Trojan is
owned by a syndicate based in Ardmore near Auckland and appears at some
airshows throughout New Zealand where it is very popular. |
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Photographed in May 2010 during the Planes of Fame
airshow is there Yakovlev Yak-3 flown by Tom Camp who also restored the
Yak for the museum. |
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Seen over Galveston, TX is Keith Hibbett flying the Lone
Star Flight Museum’s Republic P-47D Thunderbolt “Tarheel Hal”, painted
in the markings of Lt. “Ike” Davis of the 358th Fighter Group. |
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A pair of the L159 ALCA (advanced light combat
aircraft). In the foreground is single seater L159A in formation with a
training L159T1. Both aircraft belong to 212 Squadron, Czech Air Force
from Caslav AFB. |
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Mike Henningsen gets airborne off of runway 18 at
Oshkosh, WI in his P-51D Mustang “Big Beautiful Doll” during the 2011
EAA Airventure airshow. |
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Eric Presten flies Jason Petroelje's 7/8 scale Macchi
M.5 over Grand Haven, Michigan. The Macchi M.5 was a flying-boat fighter
developed by the Nieuport Macchi company of Varese in early 1917, and
introduced in service in autumn 1917. |
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Taken from the balcony of the Miami Hilton on Nov 30,
2011 is a Boeing 727-233 operated by Amerijet International landing at
Miami International airport. |
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12. |
Walter Norris, from the Lindsay Kawartha Lakes Flying
Club, is seen flying his Zenair CH-250 over Southern Ontario.
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