check out these planes,pretty neat. Now my son wants to be a pilot,yeehaw

YouTube - Airventure 2009

 

Great find Hank!! Love to watch those planes. It's amazing what some of these pilots can do with them. Scott (horsepuller) needs to see this....he'll love it.

 

Awesome link Hank! Where would our fantastic nation be today without our insurmountable aviation community!?

Tim

 

Outstanding, thank you. Wonder where the guy got the Mig?

 

WOO HOO ... I like the A10 ... And the P38 ... The Ford trimotor is a classic ...

 

If you have enough $$$$, you can buy older MIG fighters surplussed from the Russian air force..........I am thinking a mid 80s, low hour, MIG-29 might be real fun to play around with..........just don't break any parts!

 

Wanna buy a Russian plane?
How about an SU-27
$5M Buys the Ride of Your Life | Autopia | Wired.com

 

I wish I had DSL again, maybe once I get a few more hassles sorted out I can spring loose the extra 30 bills a month for it.

On dial-up, I couldn't watch the whole video. It took about 15 minutes just to get to where they showed "DUGGY". The yellow airliner with square windows - and a tail dragger at that...

You just don't see airplanes like them anymore.

I could swear there was an old lockheed vega in an earlier shot too. Maybe the biggest gasoline engines ever made - three or four banks of radial cylinders, all as high performance at the time as could be built. It isn't only aviation buffs that fall in love with stuff like that, as mechanical legacies those airplanes were each of them masterpieces of their time!

My Poppa (who was an aircraft engineer) once told me if I wanted to ride a tiger - go fly an F4U Corsair. The damn thing was purposely designed to be unstable as all hell - so that it could jink all over the sky!!!

Later fighters were also built with that in mind - until the only way they could be flown safely was with "FLY BY WIRE" controls to compensate faster than the pilots own reflexes. ~Just may God help you if your batteries go dead...

My neighbor across the way is an old pilot. He tells me that the new airbusses and other planes all have "VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS" and he doesn't like it at all. He thinks (and I agree) that a good old fashioned magnetic compass had better be in there someplace for safety of flight, not to mention a barometric altimeter - because "If the computer ever goes down you'll be screwed..."

And then there was the GEE-BEE...
(You can actually buy one these days if you're crazy enough)

Built for the air races in the thirties, it was what you get if a big enough engine is given barely enough flight control surfaces to stay off the ground. Just about the whole thing was made out of beechwood or oak

But it was notorious on landing approaches, and dubbed a "Widow Maker"

Heck of an interesting write-up on them is at this link:
The Gee Bees: the Planes, Their Designers, and Their Pilots

(Exerpt from the above article)
Contemporaries easily recognized the short and chubby little planes because, as one observer noted, they resembled "a section of sewer pipe which had sprouted stubby wings."

 

I still dream of the day I will own a PBY Catalina.

 

Ahh...

Now there you have an airplane!

There used to be a pby at gillespie field in el cajon california - stone black, and unrestored. It was hit by lightning one year and ruined - right there on the damned parking apron. Such a waste....

Hugh Hefner (PLAYBOY MAGAZINE OWNER) owned a Catalina, and the bubble blisters for guns were converted to "NEST AREAS" or observation windows - it was a luxury liner of the air, and could land on water any place in the world.

I have no idea what eventually happened to it.


Nice airplane though.

 

Wow. Didn`t know that.
I think the one in the vid was a MIG 17 or 21, Anyone know?
What about a Mig 25 Foxbat, 40yrs on and still the fastest fighter ever.

 

that looks like witman field in oshkosh wi, i work about 10 blocks from that place and let me tell ya when the show is on you cant get anywhere because of the traffic!

 

As I recall, there were quite a few catastrophic landings, especially on carriers, because the Corsair would have a tendency to dip to one side at very low speed, not unlike a Sopwith Camel.

The F4U was always one of my favorite planes. When I was younger I used to spend hour after hour reading stuff on aircraft from WWII, primarily from the Pacific theater.

 

I'm on dial up right now, can't download spit. I'm an old reciprocating engine mechanic, USN. The old 4 banks of cylinder engines were Wright 4360 CI, 28 cyls. My favorites are the T-28C, tailhook trainers, tricycle landing gear, Wright R1850, nine cyls. the Douglas Skyraider AD's taildragger with the Wright R3350 18 cyl and the F8F Bearcat, as flown by the late Bill Fornof, where he would hang the sucker by the prop and go straight up until it stalled. If I remember right, top speed on that was about 450.
I can't imagine the cost to fly one of them things today. Some of those engines were equipped with water injection systems.

 

My Grandfather told me that in 1949 you could buy a surplus P-51 Mustang for $75.00!.......Acres of em' waiting to be scrapped at airfields all over the US. Usually the planes were placed under a giant "guillotine" blade and sliced into sections........what a waste!