I can't say how awesome the Thunder Over Michigan experience was for me. As if a flight with 10 (not 13) TBMs were not enough I had the chance to fly in Charlie Clemment's Black Cat PBY. The sight of a Widgeon, T-6 and John Shuttleworth's Yak off our wings was amazing but the hightlite was seeing Charlie hand the controls over to Everett Kennedy, a WWII PBY pilot. Everett flew the PBy for a half hour before making a low and over at Willow Run and landing the aircraft himself. He greased it in on his first PBY flight in 51 years.
For a photo documentry check out this link
http://www.airic.ca/html/black_cat_flight.html
Eric
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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!
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