View Full Version : WWII Weekend just around the corner...
AVGWarhawk
05-20-11, 01:01 PM
If we all make it past the 21st.....WWII weekend is coming upon us!
http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html
I will be there again this year! And looky here!!!!! Yak-18 Added to the show!!!!! :D:yeah::up::woot:
This years roster!
http://www.maam.org/wwii/ww2_acft.htm
We're coming up on the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the Hood too, as well as the Greek and Crete campaigns.
AVGWarhawk
05-20-11, 02:28 PM
Oberon,
This is a weekend that WWII aircraft and vehicles are displayed. Most are driven and flown. They represent as many involved in WWII as they can. They stage battles with people in proper uniform, both German and US. Japanese as well. There are USO shows. Just an over all cool experience if one can attend.
Oh yes, sorry, I didn't mean to hijack the thread, I remember your pictures from the last WWII weekend and I look forward to the ones from this one :D I was just noting the date. Got a book from the library which chronicles WWII events in a timeline ya see ;)
EDIT: Bloody hell...a flying B-29! I didn't know there were any flyables left...that is some line up...you lucky sod!
I wish we had similar collections of aircarft over here. There are a few single seaters and trainers, but no flying heavies or even WWII mediums down under any more.
Might have to hope on a plane one year and head over for it.
krashkart
05-20-11, 06:54 PM
Very nice lineup. A Superfortress, a Black Widow, even a S.O.B. 2nd Class. :D
Spyguy101
05-20-11, 09:19 PM
Wasn't sure I f I would go this year. I am sure now:D
I'd love to see that Black Widow up close. One of my favourite Allied planes. Wish it were modelled in IL-2.
Stealhead
05-21-11, 12:02 AM
I got to see that SuperFortress "FiFi"(unless they got another one flying which I doubt) in Daytona Beach back in 97 or so just so happened to be in town on leave at the time.I went through the ground tour but it was still pretty damn cool to see the cockpit and the rest of "the office" the old man that was giving the tour had flown in 29s in Korea and he even let me go though the tunnel to get to the gunners stations in the back.The cost of going for a ride was too steep for my blood and once you have ridden on a noisy C-130 you already know more or less what a large prop planes feels like.
Reminds me weren't some volunteers from one of the cities where they made B29s making one just as they did in WWII(though not as fast) that they where going to display in a museum? Is this true or am I nuts?
I also heard at some point that a group was contemplating trying to make a B-36 flyable I think that would be very hard to do in deed but to see "Magnesium Over Cast" that would be nice.
Wish I had the time to go to this event maybe next year.
CaptainMattJ.
05-21-11, 01:16 AM
Oh my God i wanna fly in that mustang:woot::woot::woot:
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