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Did I take too many beer, or is it possible I saw P-51 Mustang in the air today over Longmont, CO ?
Long nose, loud & mean engine sound, wing at lower level, going very fast compared to Cessna´s, doing tight turn in the air etc.
Or any ideas, what it might have been ?
Just interested :)
You too huh, I though I was having issues but they have been flying them around the Loveland airport for about a week. Very cool to see them or the B-24 low and fast around Windsor.
airshow coming in a couple weeks. might be practice runs, and it could be the fighter pilot for a day people cruising around.
I have seen the Mustang on other occasions!
What a sight!
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I think those are one of the best looking aircraft ever built. I love P-51's.
I found this online for the Airshow August 28 & 29 http://www.cosportaviation.org/
You can also fly in a B-29....anybody got $995 laying around?
Awesome airplanes...love the sound and how gracefully they move around the sky.
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I'll be sure to be there! Thanks for the link!!!
Outstanding, so I wasn't seeing things! I thought I had eaten the wrong shrooms for dinner or something[Tooth]
I didn't see the mustang, but I saw a P-47 Thunderbolt. The cool thing about those old planes is you hear them well before you see them coming.
What color was it? I saw someting, last night was not the everyday plane coming out of the Boulder airport, it was green and yelllow with a little red on it.
2 years ago we were working on the runways at that little airport on the north west end of the metro area, can't remember it's name. Anyways, over the noise of the equipment I heard something very cool, looked up ant it was a B-17!!! VERY low level flyby, I'd say less than 20', he made a tight turn and landed on the runway right next to us. Awesome!
That same summer we had a crew at Ft. Carson, making the hot re-fuel pads, I was still at the airport who's name escapes me, my nextel beeped, one of the guys down at Carson just watched 2 V-22 Ospreys hot fuel, he was pretty impressed. A few minutes later they landed next to our equipment, dropped of a couple people then took off and headded north.
Centennial airport is where the MiG-15 lives, I met the guy who owns it, says he is working on a F-86 Sabre. Must be nice to have that kind of cash.
I've seen two flights of two Osprey's over Pueblo West... we're just south of Carson's maneuver range; Blackhawk, Chinook, and Apache are pretty common around here.Quote:
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I will be bringing one of our Hurks to the JeffCo Airshow at the end of the month. At least right now I am on the schedule to be on it. Not sure though. Good deals like that normally go to management types.
Another reason you might be seeing more old warbirds flying around is the Reno Air Races are coming baby. Cant wait.
There's a wealthy lawyer that owns a gorgeous P-51 Mustang and a Hawker Sea Fury, both are hangared at Centennial airport. The P-51 is in warbird colors, but the Sea Fury is civilian painted. It has a big radial engine and it's very fast, and the wing is shaped just like a P-47's, so it's easy to mistake it for a P-47. I thought that's what it was for years, it flys over Parker frequently, until I found out the facts.
I'm really looking forward to going to see Fifi, the B-29. Ain't gonna ride in it though. This is supposed to be it's first airshow since a major rebuild and all new engines. Only one left flying in the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLFKAWGSPCs
Don't know where he hangars it, but a Doctor (was Chief Anesthesiologist at Children's last I heard) who used to be our Medical Squadron commander owns a P-51 that wears the name "Stang Evil" around here; it was one of the P-51's assigned to the 140th here in Denver back in the day. He also has a British Gnat, and last I heard he's got an Me-109 that was brought out of Russia needing restoration.
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Is that a real Me-109Z? I knew that there is real twin Mustangs out there but not a twin 109.Quote:
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Well folks, if you have not already heard... ENOLA GAY...yes the B29 that nuked Hiroshima, is coming our way sometime this month, up in Longmont. May have changed since I first got word this spring. There are 3 B29s that are "potentially" flyable right now: FIFI/DOC/ENOLA GAY. Doc was rebuilt by Boeing in Kansas and FIFI has of course been flying for years with the CAF. ENOLA GAY was supposed to make a "one-way" flight to CA this summer with many stops and be trucked back to the Smithsonian. It has been under a "secret" rebuild while on the floor of the museum for the past 10 years.
Nah, that's a screenshot from a game called IL-2[Beer]Quote:
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http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../swordfish.jpg
Please let us know if you hear a date...Quote:
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ETA: Looks like it might be a hoax?
a guy down at KAPA has one, or at least did a few years ago when i was flying out of there. beautiful plane.
here is my video over at a private airfield on the east side of brighton. I got invited by the judge who gave me my first ever airplane ride in his bonanza V-tail!
you can see how close I was to the runway.
if you have ever been to a top fuel drag race and sat pretty close to the track, that is about the only thing that I can use to describe the feeling that goes through your chest....I imagine that is what it would be like if the doctors had to shock your chest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDWYOlLA-w
this was with a 3.2 megapixel camera, wish i had my current camera because it would have been awesome to see that thing in really good detail!
Yeah, that's Doc Bertz's bird. A thing of beauty. I'd take a Corsair too, I'm not picky.....[ROFL1]Quote:
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oh and if you guys get a chance head to the air show at KBJC some time.
I haven't been for a few years but there was always the guys with a T-33, a mig 17 and another guy with a venom jet (that thing is awesome looking!)
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircra...erbirdsT33.jpg
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircra...ghts/Mig17.jpg
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/imag...95801c4f23.jpg
I believe that Mig-17 is owned by one of our retired pilots, although I can't remember his name at the moment. He used to fly doing mock dogfights with another of our pilots who had an F-86, until the gent who flew the F-86 misjudged his altitude and pancaked at an airshow a few years ago.
And I think that Enola Gay tour was actually an April Fool's thing. It would be cool, no doubt, but I don't think it'll happen. And sadly, last I heard, FIFI was grounded awaiting new engines. I bet it happens, though.
Did he survive?
Ah.....no. He hit hard, very hard. Died on impact. If I remember correctly he did a loop but wasn't high enough going in.
Was that the JeffCo crash in the late 90s?
I believe it was at Jeffco. Pilot's name was Rosamond, if I remember correctly.
You could see the gash in the ground for a long time afterward. It was very sad.
Fifi is supposed to be all ready to go, brand-new custom built engines and all. I can't wait!Quote:
And sadly, last I heard, FIFI was grounded awaiting new engines. I bet it happens, though.
I was at the airshow when the F-86 'bought the farm'. I was listening on my scanner. Not a fun sight to see the 86 hit the ground and to know that the pilot was gone...
For what it's worth, if you're ever down in Pueblo the airport here has a museum with a B-29 in really excellent shape. They have "open cockpit days" usually a couple times a year where you can actually climb inside it. I shot video and took a bunch of pics. Pretty amazing.
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I was there for the F86 and watched it hit the ground, sad event.
The one you all saw this weekend was a YAK-3 according to my sources who were working a fly-in airshow at Erie Airport. (lafeyette area)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-3
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...0px-Jak-3U.jpg
Probably. There is an aviation lawyer that has one at APA.
When is the airshow? I have my first solo jump at Mile High in Longmont on the 28th.
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yeah that was the one
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I used to take my students there when I was instructing. pretty cool!
the one up here "wings over the rockies" museum is awesome! One of my college professors used to do a lot of work there...the guy was beyond old, I think he said he knew the wright brothers, and he had lunch with Sikorsky several times. he had an amazing collection though, knew pretty much everything about aviation history and a mind like a steel trap.
Did you take them to Flowers too? They always had good cookies and a cool bird by the door to greet you.Quote:
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The museum down in Pueblo is pretty sweet. Is the wings over the rockies the one at Lowry?
We were watching that show on Saturday before he burned in on Sunday. Truely a sad event.Quote:
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On a sidenote-we used to watch the airshows from the CDOT shed that was on the east side of Wadsworth. It was pretty cool to be on the top of the dome for salt/sand and watch. One time when the Angels or similar were practicing a couple of days before we were watching from there and they were pulling pylon turns. We could see straight into the cockpit as they were banking.
Horsepower............
But I do have a love for the warbirds. The epitome of piston power. Always had a love for the B-17 and the Mustang, Jug and Lightning. My mom grew up in Nebraska and had Lightenings buzz her town during WWII. She still gets a smile when she mentions it.
The last time we were @ Jeffco I got some cool video of this old gal:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...w/IMG_1981.jpg