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copterdoctor
02-23-2015, 06:34 PM
https://vimeo.com/101647637
JTHunter
02-24-2015, 12:47 AM
Great old planes!
Good video.
Schuetzenman
02-24-2015, 06:29 AM
Pretty awesome.
Dan Morris
02-24-2015, 10:06 AM
Last time I saw any of this stuff was a air show in 1976 in Colorado Springs. Put on by then Confederate Air Force.
Dan
El Duce
02-24-2015, 01:30 PM
That is a great video. I am spoiled though as a P-51 flies pretty regularly over the house.
Tomac yokctep
02-24-2015, 02:59 PM
I was at Hagerstown,Md a couple of months ago at a place that fixes trucks and happened to look up and there was a Mustang flying over ,a few moments later a B17 flew over .
1 Patriot-of-many
02-24-2015, 06:48 PM
Awesome. Still pisses me off very few are left intact. Our gov't sells beauty and history for scrap.
Krupski
02-25-2015, 10:15 PM
https://vimeo.com/101647637

Thanks for the video. I absolutely love old WW-II warbirds (my favorite is the P-51D Mustang).

My dad was a nose gunner in a B24-J bomber:

http://www.gunsnet.net/photopost/data/500/dads_crew.jpg


and here's my dad in 1943... all of 18 years old:

http://www.gunsnet.net/photopost/data/500/medium/dad_1943.jpg


He was a Staff Sergeant when he got out... amazing when you figure that usually 2 out of 3 guys didn't make it home alive.

He got shot down 3 times and had to bail out (thankfully always over Allied territory) and got a head wound that earned him a Purple Heart (as well as quite a few other medals).
1 Patriot-of-many
02-26-2015, 05:55 PM
Thanks for the video. I absolutely love old WW-II warbirds (my favorite is the P-51D Mustang).

My dad was a nose gunner in a B24-J bomber:

http://www.gunsnet.net/photopost/data/500/dads_crew.jpg


and here's my dad in 1943... all of 18 years old:

http://www.gunsnet.net/photopost/data/500/medium/dad_1943.jpg


He was a Staff Sergeant when he got out... amazing when you figure that usually 2 out of 3 guys didn't make it home alive.

He got shot down 3 times and had to bail out (thankfully always over Allied territory) and got a head wound that earned him a Purple Heart (as well as quite a few other medals). Awesome Roger. If he's still alive thank him for me. I hope he told you all the good stories so you can tell them to your kids.
Krupski
02-27-2015, 10:37 PM
Awesome Roger. If he's still alive thank him for me. I hope he told you all the good stories so you can tell them to your kids.

Sadly, he's no longer with us. He was a great man. He was always honest with everyone, completely faithful to my mother and a tough but just father.

I would be lucky if I could be half the man he was. I miss him dearly.