Now that my web site contains over 14,000 photos of over 3,000 planes, and still rising, one of my favorite features is the random photo widget that changes whenever you view a page. It often triggers fond memories or at least a moment of reflection. In an attempt to share this, I'm going to start posting a not-quite-random image from the site to this thread. I'm not calling it Photo of the Day because I have no illusion that I'll get around to it every day, but when I can, I will. A lot of the photos will be warbirds or antiques from airshows of a few decades ago. Feel free to reply with comments, questions, additional info, or whatever.
Here is today's.
These two Sea Furies were familiar to anyone who went to a lot of airshows, circa 1980. Frank Sanders' N232J, built up from parts of TG114, VR918 and VR919, initially word Royal Navy markings with the tactical number 232, then was painted in this Royal Canadian Navy scheme. It has since been rebuilt into the racer September Fury. Ellsworth Getchell's WH587, with its accurate Australian markings, was one of the most popular and well-traveled warbirds of that period, usually flying from California to Oshkosh each year. It mostly shows up around California now.
See pics of 20 different Sea Furies (and I still have a couple more galleries to put up)
here.
August