Once the airshow’s over things get back to normal. The airspace is released from its FAA waiver and regular flights resume. The warbirds are still lined up, but the crowds take off quickly to try to beat the traffic out. So it’s easy to get right up to the flight line and take a big, wide picture.
(Click on it, make it big, so you can see what I’m talking about.)
From left to right:
- the Beech Staggerwing I’ve been gushing about
- a tiny bit of the red nose of the CAF F-24
- a tiny bit of the blue and yellow nose of one of our PT-19s
- across the runway, our yellow SNJ
- our blue F6F Bearcat
- our blue F8F Hellcat
- a P-51, checkered nose, not ours, not sure which one
- a T-6, I believe it’s War Bird
- the oddity of it all, a Cessna 172 that was taxiing to the left while I was scanning to the right (!!)
- our P-51
- our blue PBJ bomber
- above, a helicopter giving rides now that the airspace is open
- a green & yellow B-25 owned by the AAF
- our Zero
- the MIG-17 owned by one of our pilots
- a lot of other warbirds off in the distance
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 