I saw... a Mustang today!

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I was coming out of a local WalMart in Massachusetts with my kids this afternoon and I heard an aircraft engine over head. Usually, I don't look up, but, this one sounded... powerful... I looked up and son of a gun... it was a P51C. The razorback model. A REAL P51 Mustang. What struck me was it's red tail. A Tuskeegee Airman tribute plane. It was only in my field of view for a few seconds, but Wow, what a beautiful aeroplane! What a thrill. I'm over 50 (WAY over). When I was a kid, my dad took me to airshows in Cleveland. In the early sixties, seeing WWII aircraft flying around was still fairly common. Not so today. I can still hear the sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin on startup.... It sucks the air out of your chest....

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The P51 is always a thrill to see flying. A few years ago while working on the Dart, 3 of them flew over my house in formation. What a sight!
 
Once upon a time the National Warplane Museum here in Elmira (Big Flats) was active with the air shows and flying vintage aircraft. They had the B17 "Fuddy Duddy" in the stable until they were forced to sell to keep the museum open. Several times during the summer months we'd hear the Fuddy Duddy fly over, sometimes with a P51 escort. What a sight. What a sound! I miss it.
 
Heres a link for a Spitfire flying over a reporter. Laughed out loud the first time I saw this.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3NjBg80AMc"]Spitfire Fly LOW over reporters head. - YouTube[/ame]
 
Here in washington in the summer, every year there seems to be a b-17 you can take a ride in. What it cost I don't know but looks fun. The plane is here for only a few days and flys out of Boeing field
 
Just noticed it but that is the Red Tails! This was the color scheme used the Tuskegee Airmen. They had the best combat rating of any flying group of World War II.
 
1970Duster said:
Here in washington in the summer, every year there seems to be a b-17 you can take a ride in. What it cost I don't know but looks fun. The plane is here for only a few days and flys out of Boeing field
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Yeah, same thing here in Sacramento. Every year around Memorial Day a B-17 and B-25 are flying around the valley. Now, those things make some noise. I think it costs a few hundred to take a ride on one.
 
2 summer's ago 4 of them flew over; I could hear them a long way off and knew they weren't the average plane. I was excited to see they were Mustangs. They were heading over to the Muskegon air show. Later that day, near evening 2 of them flew back over heading the other way. They have a sound all their own!
 
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