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Our Plane
N8941W - our plane since July 1989... a lot of terrain under the wings in that time..
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WingW-3
Spiral down with a wing walker on top.
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wingW-2
And she is still there!
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w-sig-byplane
Stearman rides, life don't get any better!
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w-Instr check ride
My instrument check ride... oh, the sweat it took!
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w-IN THE CLOUDS
And she is still holding on.. the pilot. Gene Sousy
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Tigercat-w
An F7F Tiger Cat.. the big Grumman Cat!
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UH1 Huey
Shades of Vietnam - UH-1A Huey Medivac choppers.
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The Showman
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SB2C Helldiver
WWII Helldiver, the only one still flying..
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Plano Bal fest
Plano Texas Balloon festival. From my Cherokee.
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PBY4 Catalina
Not many of these birds around any more either.. Catalina flying boats.
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pilot1
Taking kids up for their Eagle Flight certification with the EAA.. they get to fly, and learn about aviation.
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P-51 Mustang
Landing is the 1st great flight maneuver!
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P-51D Mustang
One pretty bird in the air...
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P-40B Hawk
the old war horse.. P-40B Tomahawk. Flying Tigers colors, but made their name in starting at Pearl Harbor and going all across the Pacific in 1942.. places like Guam, Midway, even in the Aleutians.. the P-40 made the Japs duck.
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P-39 Air Cobra
Slow, well armored, carried a cannon.. had the propeller shaft between the pilots legs. we did not like it much, but the Russians loved them!
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Oshkosh downwind
Oshkosh, if you fly, and you have not been there.. then you are just a driver, not a pilot!
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on final filtered
The last landing at Dallas North Airport for 41W prior to the closing of the field.
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MIG 21
Russian Mig 21 Flogger.. the Russians rue the day they gave this sweet bird to the North Vietnamese.. we blew most of them out of the air in one day..
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Me-109E
The ME 109 was "obsolete" when we got into the war.. no one told the Germans that. although it entered service in 1937.. it was still equal to the American fights through the end of the war.
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junkyard Cobra-w
the UH-1a Huey was to big and ungainly to be effective as a gunship (although, many of us ground pounders would strongly disagree!!), Bell modified the cabin on the Huey into a two man, light weight attack chopper called the Cobra. Still in use today as the Super Cobra.. it is the best ground close support aircraft flying..
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Linda gets her Lic.
Linda, the day she got her pilots license.. a proud moment for both of us.. we bought 41W two weeks later.
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Harrier Jump Jet
hawker harrier.. jets are not supposed to take off that way!
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ggfullpower-05
Glacier Girl, rises again after being excavated from under 280 feet of ice in Greenland. First full power run up on both engines.
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w-Glacier Gal
Glacier Gal coming in with everything hanging out, for a landing at Addison Airport in Dallas!
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w-P-38
While another P-38 does a low fly-by...
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GeeBee Racer
GeeBee racer full tilt, inverted, cutting the ribbon at Oshkosh.. 1993
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flying the Rockies
N8941W flying the Rockies. Picture taken by a friend in another airplane on our way to Wyoming, then on to Oshkosh.. 1997
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flag-w
You have to love the stars & stripes...
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F7F Tiger Cat
The big Grumman Tiger Cat takes the active for departure..
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F4U Corsairs
Followed by a couple of F4U Corsairs departing..
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F-4F Wild Cat
A Pardue owned Wildcat...Breakenridge Texas
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f14-F6
A f-14 Tom Cat flying formation with a F6F Hellcat..
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F-8F Bear Cat
A Pardue owned Bearcat...Breakenridge Texas.
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F-6F Hell Cat
A Pardue owned Hellcat...Breakenridge Texas. Are ya seeing a pattern here!
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F-18 - BLUE ANGELS
Blue and gold, nothing more to say... WOW
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F-18 - BLUE ANGELS 2
Blue and gold, nothing more to say... WOW
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F-14 TomCat - F6F Hell Cat low pass
F-14 TomCat - F6F Hell Cat low pass, only at Oshkosh.. WWII meats the big Tomcat.. a rare sight indeed.
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F-14 TomCat - Afterburners
I have a need for speed!
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Dauntless SBD
Replacing the SB2C helldiver, the SBD Dauntless dive bomber sent a lot of japanese steel to the bottom of the ocean..
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Dawn Launch
Dawn launch from the lake at the Plano Balloon Festival.. mid 1980's
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Corsair #68
marine corsair.. heading for the runway..
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Cessna Bobcat twin trainer (WWII)
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cobra
Huey Cobra.. not something to mess with!
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Camping at Oshkosh
Pitch a tent.. and sit back and enjoy the show..
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Camping
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boats
Flying over Boston Harbor entrance..
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Bf 109e - Me
Originally built in 1937, these sturdy aircraft were a match for any Allied fighters right up to the end of the war, an amazing aircraft.
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ballooning
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Balloon Launch
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Bal - Eagle.W
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B24 Liberator
Built to replace the B-17 Flying Fortress, it had a longer range and larger bomb load, but was more difficult to fly and less resilient to battle damage. It was the first heave bomber with tricycle landing gear.
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AD-1 Skyraider
In Vietnam, when you were pinned down by enemy fire, the sound to the Sky Raider radial engine was sweet music indeed. It carried more ordinance that a squadron of WWII B-17 bombers, and the fuel to remain on station for hours providing fire support to the ground troops.
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B-25 Mitchell Bomber
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B-25 Mitchell 2
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B-24 Liberator in Trouble
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w-Tora flight
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T-38 Talons
The US Airforce Thunderbirds in their signature diamond formation.
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tarheel hal
An F-15 Strike Eagle with a F-16 Falcon escort the WWII P-47 Thunderbolt Tarheel Hal...
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W-T-birds tail to tail
Top Gun Cockpit to Cockpit...
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W- Kate TB
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Zero Fighter (Replica)
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LMF 3.psd
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Tri Color 3
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Tiger with Claws
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sunrise at oshkosh
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Sorlen Isl8
An H-34 Seahorse drops equipment for our island survey.
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Petie III
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Hot time B-24
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F-18 Bearcat F8
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F-15 SE
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B-17
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A-26 Invader
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