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I've never seen one of these. It's a Junkers JU-52 and is on it's way to Oshkosh later this month.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Thousands of aircraft will eventually be on their way there. It's an incredible airshow. They have just about everything that flies.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Which is in North Ft Worth, and heard an airplane overhead. Looked up and saw a DC-3 flying low and slow. Awesome sound, very distinctive.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)They used one of the pictures for this painting.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)There used to be a B-17 based there. I think it's in Galveston now, but it still comes back occassionally. I shared the pattern with it one time.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)http://www.veteransmemorialairpark.com/home1.aspx
The Veterans Memorial Air Park have some 50s-60s era warbirds on static display at Ross Ave. and W. Long St. Amazing how small some of these aircraft are in real life, as opposed to photographs and film/video.
Archae
(46,373 posts)One year a B-17, and 6 P-51 escorts, all in formation flew over. Low.
My gawd, that was music.
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)One of two airworthy Avro Lancasters in the worlds and I saw one in flight. I feel honored. I remember walking with an old man who was an engineer on Halifax bombers during the war. he told me a story about how a group of B-17s low on fuel mad an emergency landing at his airfield. They all came in at once. He and his fellow comrades were worried that there would "be a bang" but they all came down safely. He remembers the USAAF aircrews coming out of the planes and just laying down under their planes and falling asleep from the sheer exhaustion of their mission.
Archae
(46,373 posts)TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)Static display, of course. No need to make that abortion of an airplane airworthy again.
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)A lot of the flyable Ju-52s are the Spanish ones.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Archae
(46,373 posts)German for "Auntie Ju."
German troops loved those planes.
lastlib
(23,366 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 15, 2012, 03:28 PM - Edit history (1)
...how did you get a picture from ABOVE it????
Or was it flying upside-down? Then how did the trees get in the pic?