Some good footage of vintage airplanes in this youtube video. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0gxeWADtoU[/ame]
I saw a picture in today's paper of some of the survivors saluting during the National Anthem. This and the Discovery flyover this week represent aviation milestones that will never be repeated. From ABC news: Five men, all in their 90s, will come to military-erect attention. Before them will be a wooden display case with 80 silver goblets. On each, a name is engraved twice: to be read right-side-up for those still alive or to be read placed upside-down, in memory of the 75 now dead. "To those who have gone," 96-year-old Lt. Col. Richard Cole will toast, raising his goblet high. The other four surviving Doolittle's Raiders Maj. Thomas Griffin, Lt. Col. Robert Hite, Lt. Col. Edward Saylor and Master Sgt. David Thatcher will answer in unison: "To those who have gone."
My father's college roomate has a goblet there... he was a navigator on one of the B-25's... don't remember his name at the moment. He, like a number of them, did not come back from his "30 Seconds over Tokyo" mission.
