Warbird Information Exchange

I am going to post this in 3 parts. Parts 1 & 2 warbirds, Part 3 military and civilian acts. The only show that I have more Texan/Harvard photos is Big Iron 1990, Breckenridge 27 vs 24 for WOH 87. There are 6 B-25s

bill word

Hi Bill:

Thanks for posting these. That's my old SNJ-6, all yellow with the silver canopy cover, bombs and gas guns three from the end of the images and I was part of that AT-6/SNJ/Harvard TraRon flight you picture. We used to be able to get 16+ ship formations up at most larger shows back then.

The blue TBM with 401SL markings was owned and flown by my good friend Dr. John Kelley, and he often attended shows with his whole family in the TBM until he sold it to sponsor and do a great deal of needed work on the original CAF A6M2 Zero. Lots of other familiar faces in those shots, some no longer with us. Thanks very much for posting. Fly safe.

Randy

Look at those polished props on Special Delivery- they looked good but darn were they a pain to keep looking pretty.

Thats why we decided to paint the blades, they were beginning to show signs of pitting. Same with the TF-51 and F6F blades.

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If God had wanted man to fly behind a flat motor, Pratt Whitney would've built one.

blades...., sorry, I could not get past the 'headlights' on Yellow Rose's Noseart!!!!

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Blame the former owner for those.............somewhere if I ever find my pics that I took as a kid. I got a pic of my reflection of me taking the pic off one of those blades.

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