A gross of dozens. Guys are practicing for EAA this week. Oshkosh is about a 50 mile flight, and Rawley Point Lighthouse is the turnaround point just north of town. It mustve really been a sight during honest to gosh dogfights during WWII. Sorry about the shaky camera; as I was slathering SPF 1000 oil on the hatch, I heard the planes coming and thought of John Codman. Hmmm I had to run for the camera. ws
Very cool! I still remember a B24 going over my house in the early 80's in Upstate NY. It was an awesome sight.
I'm sure theres gonna be a bunch of multi-engine units flying over. Theres the 75th anniversary Doolittle raid with B25's and one of the last flying B29 Superfortress's. Ill have the camera at the ready... This was just a few minutes ago! ws
If you get to see the B-29 named "Doc", there's one helluva story behind it - one of the people who first assembled it helped restore it.
Saw it on the local news last night. Eaa is usually an overcrowded hot A$$ venue with a $30-40 admission fee. I get to see almost everything fly right over the house at 1000 feet in formation. I'll be keeping an eye out for "DOC" tomorrow and the Doolittle B25s as well... ws https://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/e...kosh/03-23-2017-b-29-doc-to-attend-airventure http://inspire.eaa.org/2017/03/18/aircraft-highlights-at-airventure-oshkosh-2017/ http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/us/75th-anniversary-doolittle-raid/
They definitely catch your attention when they fly over. Hard to ignore!! Every time I see and hear the WW2 planes flying I think about the original guys that flew them and fought and died in them for our freedom. The greatest Generation!!
I couldn't get bill's video to play, but in silhouette, the planes in the first formation could be Navions. I have flown into the EAA convention at Oshkosh three times. It was fun, but always involved getting wet at some point. Also, it involved "camping". My idea of camping is a hotel with poor room service. I'm too old for tents and sleeping bags on an air mattress. No Mas!
Pretty cool Bill! They said there are going to be two B-29's flying in formation together and that hasn't happened in a very long time. Think they had said something like 60 years? We may go Friday.
Very cool when you can look up from your work and see living history still thundering through the air with zero apologies. Loud and proud baby,loud and proud! After watching this video I feel much better about my clapped out rust bucket of a car too..........hell it is pert near MINT after seeing some of these lost planes! That must have been a thrill to find those and more importantly solve the mystery of the missing pilots for any surviving relatives .
The TV news is on in the other room and I'm in here watching youtube vids... always something interesting when YOU are in command! That flic was pretty good Fritz; THANKS! If you look at exactly the 10 minute mark, theres a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber trainer that was retrieved from lake Michigan after an aborted landing on one of the two converted lake built aircraft carriers. The power plant in the background was where I cut my teeth for 30 years at Fisk Generating Station 1111 w. 22nd st Chicago. Fisk (ca 1903) was the first purpose built plant that utilized VERTICAL steam turbines when everything else was still reciprocating. Search USS SABLE and WOLVERINE for a lotta history on Lake Training not being near "Live Action" training in hot zones. Theres probably 150 still on the lake bottom. Probably 20 have been recovered/restored, and one hangs inside the terminal at Midway Airport. Oddly enough, being at the shallow end of the lake, they have become quite a local diving attraction and mysteriously, the fully operational planes are missing one item; the first aid kits that were packed with morphine ampules. Hmmm, par for the course, eh? ws Good link to read; http://www.chicagomarineheritage.org/midway.html
Great stuff! As an aircraft buff ( and who lives on a built over WW 2 airfield) I really enjoyed it. I've been lucky enough to fly in "FIFI" back in 2011. Short, very noisy, very expensive and worth every cent! Thanks!
Interesting stuff.....I was lost in YOUTUBE land watching WW II Metal Detecting.....Now its way past my bedtime. God rest the souls.
Awesome! We had the 75th anniversary here not to long ago and they set up a static display, a flyover, then a B-1 flyover at Mach .9. Was a great day. Can't get my videos to load but a few pictures for fellow enthusiast.
I was lost in YOUTUBE land... What an understatement ! After a few hours yer a hundred pages away looking at bikini chicks in Rat Rods! I love it! ws In case ya'll missed Bowling Green...
Well.....you got me back Bill! Lol After your cool stories about the Dauntless planes & then the history on the vertical steam turbines,I started researching their history (Curtis Verticals) which lead me to the reciprocating steam turbine,then I of course wanted to look for boats for you which lead me to the fastest ship at the time the Turbinia and then landed on this very interesting black & white history on George Westinghouse. ***WARNING*** Only start watching this one when you need a lonnnnng break because it will suck you in. I am halfway through and only paused to share it with you. We need more inventors like this today! Or maybe we DO have them but the news outlet are to damn busy playing smash mouth with one another to encourage another generation? Not sure,but I do love history & the people who helped make it : ) Anyhow here ya go,should be good for a nice evening relaxing after working on that soon to be beautiful again 63 Chris Craft.
" bikini chicks in Rat Rods! " !!!!!?????!!!!! Looks like George Westinghouse is gonna need to wait awhile!!! Be back later.......maybe lol
Okay is that tractor pull about who can break their tinker toy front wheels off first or about pulling something? Before some even started I was thinking "this ain't gonna go well,4 engines on top of lawn mower wheels?"
Pardon the length - I loved the video of the recovery of WW2 aircraft. Early in the video there were a few shots of a B-25 being pulled from a lake. A few years back I remember watching a full-length TV documentary on it's recovery. My favorite airplane shown was the Bell Airacobra at about seven minutes. Take a look at the location of the exhaust stacks. V8 Buick has decided not to allow me to log on from my own computer (?), so I'm using my bride's laptop. Her computer is hooked to Bose speakers, so the sound during the 11-minute video was awesome! The most impressive flyover that I have seen was a few years back in Medway, MA. The New England Patriots were (as usual) in a playoff game and they had a NASCAR style flyover planned. The aircraft was the B-2 flying wing. It passed over my house at about 1,000 feet. It was the most sinister-looking aircraft that I have ever seen. I too love mechanical history - antique cars, trucks, railroad equipment, airplanes, boats, old power plants, "make and break" single-cylinder gas engines, etc... I'm really hoping that the USS UNITED STATES is saved.
Odd you should mention the SS UNITED STATES,,, a founding father from my boat forum (lives in Amityville L.I.) was instrumental forming The "Save the SS UNITED STATES" coalition. Unfortunately, the ship is in such bad repair from neglect, vandalism, and theft that its' future seems bleak, at best. It was figured to cost $15-20 Million per year to berth (NOT including a tourist friendly venue), maintain, repair and insure the lady, and entrance proceeds wouldnt come close to meeting those demands. The navy was instrumental in developing the hull design and full speed is still considered "confidential". It still holds the Blue Riband for fastest crossing in BOTH directions. ws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_United_States
I didn't check the link Bill, but I heard an estimate of $330 million to restore it - including swapping out the inefficient (but powerful) steam turbines for Diesels. That is less then a Buck per American citizen to save a made-in-USA icon. I'll pledge $1,000 if other Americans will contribute enough to save her. It would be a tragedy if perhaps the greatest passenger liner ever built (apologies to the Queens), is not saved. There is precedent for Americans to donate to save a ship; in `1930 the USS CONSTITUTION ( world's oldest commissioned warship) was saved by donations from Americans - mostly schoolchildren - in 1930. I hope we can do it again.
