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Picture Of The Day
July 23, 2007 3:09 pm
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Found On YouTube – Bob Hoover
July 22, 2007 9:31 amPicture Of The Day
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Picture Of The Day
July 21, 2007 9:21 am
Found on YouTube – Glacier Girl
July 20, 2007 3:57 pmA tribute to Glacier Girl
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USAAF Resource Center – P-38 Lightning
G. Willie Kidnapped!
3:54 pmApparently G. Willie, the intrepid pilot of the DC-3 displayed near Interstate 4, near Polk City, has gone missing and is feared kidnapped. G.Willie was originally displayed hanging from the tail of the Fantasy Of Flight landmark which was arranged in a nose-down orientation in 1998. Frequent calls to 911 by concerned motorists, who thought it was a real crash, prompted FoF to rearrange the aircraft in a less startling manner. G. Willie was removed from his precarious perch and installed in the much more comfortable cockpit.
G. Willie was last seen on July 17 and sometime during the night this poor fellow was removed from the aircraft by unknown thieves. Thier are currently no suspects in the heinous crime.
Warbirds-Online will report further as details become known.
Found On YouTube – Just For Fun
3:43 pmNose Art Or The Week
3:35 pm
Hello Folks, well, another week has gone by along with the Historical Aircraft Group Museum’s Greatest Show On Turf 2007. I personally thought it was a fantastic three days, and apparently others, WIX included, did also. There were many vintage and WWII era aircraft to be seen both on the ground and in the air, along with a C-130, F-16 Demo team, B-2 Spirit flyover on Saturday and even a barnstormer style wing walker for your viewing pleasure. The “Flying Farmer” Charlie Kulp also did his amazing routine Saturday and Sunday. There was an F-16/P-51 heritage flight on both days, and some amazing flying routines. It seems to me, each year, the show gets better and better. Even the biggest uncontrollable factor, the weather, cooperated once again this year. Now, let’s get down to some serious history…
Be Safe,
Tom K.;)
21 July 1910
The Wright brothers began experimenting with wheeled landing gear.
21 July 1911
While on a solo flight in a Farman, Denise Moore became the first woman to be killed in an airplane when she crashed at Chalons in France.
18 July 1914
Congress created the Aviation Section of the Army Signal Corps.
18 July 1915
Katherine Stinson became the first woman to loop-the-loop while performing aerobatics in Chicago.
19 July 1915
Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer scored his first victory while flying a Morane-Sulnier Parasol 2-seat monoplane. Eventually he became the highest scoring French pilot in the First World War.
21 July 1919
Anthony Fokker founded the Dutch aircraft company of the same name at Schiphol near Amsterdam.
21 July 1921
United States Army MB2 biplane bombers bombed and sunk the German battleship Ostfriesland with six 2,000 pound bombs. The aircraft were under the overall control of Brigadier General William “Billy” Mitchell.
17 July 1927
USMC de Havilland DH4s attacked hostile Nicaraguan forces surrounding the Marine garrison at Ocotal in Nicaragua.
18 July 1936
Simultaneous revolts in seventeen military garrisons in Spain and Spanish Morocco marked the start of the Spanish Civil War.
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