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Mother F-er... Air show cancled again
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BuckyB93 Offline
#1 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 3:30 AM EST
Joined: 07-16-2004
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I grew up loving planes, rockets and anything aeronautical. As a kid I did a ton of the plastic models in my bedroom hobby corner. Testers glue and paint of all sorts (I didn't intentionally sniff them) covered my hobby model corner of my room. If any of youse did these, you'll remember the decals that you had to soak in water and wait for them to lift off the backing paper.

A childhood dream was to become an aeronautical engineer and work at NASA. Every summer the family would go see an airshow somewhere. The best one that is engrained in my gray matter is the fly in at the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) based in Oshkosh, WI. (My uncle on my mothers side lived in a town next door) The EAA fly in is yearly major attraction. Half a million people... descending on a small town in WI... for that one week it is the busiest airport in the world. Phenomenal air show, if you ever have a chance to see it, you'll not be disappointed.

https://www.eaa.org/airventure/about-eaa-airventure-oshkosh/overview

Back on topic, the air shows in my area have been cancelled over the past couple years. This year, it looked like they were going to get them going again. My kids are old enough to appreciate it so I was psyched and planned on hitting the one that was scheduled in Westfield, MA.

It was scheduled later this month but I just checked the website for an update... it's cancelled. Franking A!

It would have been an awesome thing and I'm kinda pissed.
BuckyB93 Offline
#2 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 3:50 AM EST
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My favorite plane of all time is the P-51 Mustang or the A-10 Warthog.
mrpipster Offline
#3 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 4:27 AM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
My favorite plane of all time is the P-51 Mustang or the A-10 Warthog.


Good choices. I really like the P-40B
BuckyB93 Offline
#4 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 10:21 AM EST
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mrpipster wrote:
Good choices. I really like the P-40B



Had one of those hanging from my ceiling too.

The P-38 Lightning another that's in my top 5. (I'm partial to WWII era planes).
tonygraz Offline
#5 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 12:14 PM EST
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Wrong Furum Noop !
BuckyB93 Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 12:35 PM EST
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Damn... You're right.

Well... this is a crossing point. Tony and I agree on something.

For recent, more modern planes: the F/A-18 Hornet. Selfish preference selection. Did some work back in the day of the Gulf War on the ATFLIR systems for these things. Plus these are is the planes the Blue Angels have been using for their shows.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#7 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 1:38 PM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
I grew up loving planes, rockets and anything aeronautical. As a kid I did a ton of the plastic models in my bedroom hobby corner. Testers glue and paint of all sorts (I didn't intentionally sniff them) covered my hobby model corner of my room. If any of youse did these, you'll remember the decals that you had to soak in water and wait for them to lift off the backing paper.

A childhood dream was to become an aeronautical engineer and work at NASA. Every summer the family would go see an airshow somewhere. The best one that is engrained in my gray matter is the fly in at the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) based in Oshkosh, WI. (My uncle on my mothers side lived in a town next door) The EAA fly in is yearly major attraction. Half a million people... descending on a small town in WI... for that one week it is the busiest airport in the world. Phenomenal air show, if you ever have a chance to see it, you'll not be disappointed.

https://www.eaa.org/airventure/about-eaa-airventure-oshkosh/overview

Back on topic, the air shows in my area have been cancelled over the past couple years. This year, it looked like they were going to get them going again. My kids are old enough to appreciate it so I was psyched and planned on hitting the one that was scheduled in Westfield, MA.

It was scheduled later this month but I just checked the website for an update... it's cancelled. Franking A!

It would have been an awesome thing and I'm kinda pissed.



LOVED building models as a kid. Especially tall ships. Got really damned good at it.

As for airplanes, my faves...F4U Corsair and the Messerschmitt Bf 109...workhorses of the air.
Whistlebritches Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 2:44 PM EST
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That sucks Bucky..........I live right between Dyess AFB ,B1 bomber base,and Sheppard AFB,home of the 80th Flying Training Wing,the only Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) base in the world.We have air shows all day long everyday just from their training flights not to mention the actual air show events.I can't talk to these air dog bastids, they speak AF and I speak Navy,might as well be Swahili and Finnish

BTW my favorite plane is the F-4 Phantoms............spent several years behind USN Aircraft Carriers on lifeguard station watching them launch and recover.F-18's are pretty impressive as well
Palama Online
#9 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 5:04 PM EST
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Bummers about the canceled air show Theodore. Gonz

I built all kinds of models from WWI up to Vietnam while growing up. Heavily influenced by an uncle and my oldest brother. Planes, jets, tanks and ships. Of course Revell and Monogram were my staple brands. As far as favorite builds:

P-40 Warhawks - the Flying Tigers version with those great markings were the best!
P-38 Lightning - to me, the coolest WWII plane and definitely one of the more challenging builds
F4U Corsair - iirc, it had the foldable gull wings and had to buy a 2nd kit after messing up my first try
Douglas Dauntless Diver - it was this or the Avenger that had the swing down torpedo that you could "launch". Loved that!
Grumman Avenger - see above
Lancaster Dambuster - had the swing down bouncing / skipping bomb
M4 Sherman tanks - building tanks took more patience than planes (...but less than ships...)

I'm sure there are others that I enjoyed building but can't remember at the moment.
ZRX1200 Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 5:38 PM EST
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My dad worked on F4s during the tail end of our SE Asian adventure aboard the Midway.

We have a Oregon Air National guard base 75 miles East in Klamath Falls so we regularly get to see/hear F15’s fly over/touch n go’s
Abrignac Offline
#11 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 5:59 PM EST
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Jazzfest got canceled again. Rolling Stones would have been one of the headliners. Chit!
BuckyB93 Offline
#12 Posted: Sun, Aug 8 2021, 6:11 PM EST
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I worked with an old fart back when I was young and just out of college. A British dude, Peter Roberts (I can use his full name because he's deceased). I learned a ton of practical metallurgy from him when I was wet behind the ears.

Anyway, over many pints of beer we would argue over the most impactful airplane of WWII.
- I stood strong on my position that it was the P-51 Mustang (we bailed your ass out you Limey, the P-51 secured your homeland).
- He held strong on the Spitfire. Battle of Britain and all that crap... blah, blah, blah...

P-51 had the speed and agility to take out whatever Germany had to offer. It had the range to escort bombers into Germany and back again strafing targets of opportunity for fun with its 50 cal guns. I ended up loosing the argument as he would always pull out the trump card... the fact that the P-51 wouldn't have been the legendary P-51 if it didn't have the British designed Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.

Frank! Being beaten again, I'd buy another round of IPA.
delta1 Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Aug 10 2021, 4:18 PM EST
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I'm also looking forward to air-shows being held again...hopefully when the pandemic's infection rate drops and remains low, that day will come...
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