WINGSUITS in FORMATION!!

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WI NGSUITS AT 100+ mph

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Steerman in classic US Army colors

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Old Mountain Boy Ruff Handles a J-3 (Looked like some of my former wingmen!)

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One way to make your turnoff

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Gene Soucy and His Female Friend

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Loops and Rolls in a helicopter!

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T-6 Attacking the Moon

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Beautiful T-6

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P-51A in the colors of the 332 Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen. Three surviving members were at the show and autographed their book for me.

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Fomation Mustangs Lifting off Together

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Burt Rataan's Boomerang Twin

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Travis C-5A Overcast

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Cockpit of the Boeing B-29, "FiFi"

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My Uncle flew one of these but was killed by a kamikaze on his way into Yokahama with the 40th Bomb Group on 29 May 1945.

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1937 Cabin Waco - Award Best Restoration

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B-17s Front End

Another pretty Courair

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Curtiss C-46 Commando

Thorp T-18

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Thorp Hub

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B-29 FiFi Taxiing In

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B-29 FiFi, based at Addison Airport, TX. The Only Airworthy B-29 in Existence.

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Junkers JU-52, mfr 1932 to 1945, this one from Switzerland. Note BMW engines. BMW built a lot of fighter and bomber engines for WW-II and used slave laborers.

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Goodyear blimp in max climb

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1948 Swift

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Old Cherokee Commanche. Arount 1960

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Waco F-5

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Replica of 1909 Louis Blériot aircraft that made the first crossing of the English Channel. Roll control was by mechanical wing warp from control wheel to cables through the pivot point seen below the fuselage.

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Stinson Reliant about 1938-1941

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The last Laird built. Was left unfinished at the factory when Laird went bankrupt and was aquired and finished about 40 years later.

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