Real Flying

I had the privilege of seeing two pros today, John Penney and Bud Granley flying two WW2 jewels. Bud flew a P-40c and Penney flew a Spitfire, both of which are part of the Paul Allen's Flying Heritage collection. The low level passes were great but the landings beautiful. Penney floated along in the Spitfire before settling into a cushiony soft landing and Granley followed with a chirping wheelie in the P-40 after they put on a lovely series of runs past the crowd. I realized that whatever I have done in my flying past was little kid's stuff compared to these guys. So this summer they will be flying a Hurricane, P-47, Mosca, ME109E, P-51, jenny, and Storch. I'll be there.

 

Ahhhh...love to have been there with you Bob. Sounds like it was a good fly day. I'd docent there all of the time if I lived close by like you.

 

Yeah, that would be fun but I don't have much time between buying and working on this house and my artwork. Way too busy for an old guy but then that's why I keep getting older, I guess. Number 84 coming next month.
Got to thinking about the WW2 fighters and how cool it must be to handle one of those machines and thought about the hundreds of them that I saw when I was a kid before and when I went into the warstuff. Nineteen and twenty year olds were flying them and we didn't think about it then. This country performed miracles in the 3 1/2 years that we were combating the bad guys.

 

Glad you could make it up there, and for two fun planes to watch. Both make great sounds.

 

I live less than 2 miles from the airport and I still missed going. Unfortunately, didn't realize they were flying again after GA day last weekend

 

Here is Flying Heritage Collection schedule,

MAY 31: Memorial Day at FHC
JUN 5: Mustang Day
JUN 19: Eastern Front Day
JUL 10: Packard Merlin Day
JUL 24: Biplane Day
AUG 7: Battle of Britain Day
AUG 28: Round Engine Day
SEP 11: American Fighter Day

Kilo 6 will join in as well,

June 5, 2010
Joint fly day with Flying Heritage Collection, Paine Field, featuring Mustangs.

June 19-20, 2010
Olympic Air Show (Olympia, WA)

July 9-11
Arlington Air Show

July 17, 2010
Princeton Air Show

July 24
Joint fly day with Flying Heritage Collection, Paine Field, featuring biplanes.

July 24-25
Inland Skyfest, Fairchild AFB (Spokane, WA)

August 13-15
Abbotsford International Air Show

August 28
Joint fly day with Flying Heritage Collection, Paine Field, featuring big, round engines.

September 4-6
Vintage Aircraft Weekend, Paine Field

September 15-19
Reno International Air Races