FHC Ground Attack Day 9-29-12

[spookythecat]

Last Saturday was the last Flying Heritage Fly Day of the year and they went out with some of the best flying i've seen all year. Historic Flight Foundation and Heritage Flight Museum also joined in the fun

Aircraft included:

P-47 (FHC) flown by Bud Granley
IL-2 (FHC) flown by Ross Granley
F7F (HFF) flown by John Sessions
P-51 (HFM) flown by Greg Anders

























After the flying the pilots hang around and chat and sign pictures for the fans



Also, across the runway Grumpy and Bad Kitty went up for membership flights.

[Pat Carry]

Gr8 photos as usual Al! The IL-2 is looking toooo good.

[maxum96]

The Sturmovik is missing his rear gunner! lol Great pictures of some gorgeous planes.

Last edited by maxum96 on Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:52 am, edited 1 time in total.

[bugazon]

Another Great set of images!!! Thank you for sharing your shots!!

[ktst97]

Thank you, Al.
Very good photos!

[Ken]

Great pix, as usual, Al. Where was the Skyraider on Ground Attack Day!?!

[dors]

Great photos as usual. That IL-2 is still hard to believe. Absolutely awesome.

[spookythecat]

Great pix, as usual, Al. Where was the Skyraider on Ground Attack Day!?!

It was broken

[alang]

The East wall framework on the new building is up and ir looks like it's a good size building.

[SaxMan]

It's interesting to compare the size of the IL-2 to the P-47. From the top view, their sizes look pretty close. That is pretty remarkable, as the P-47 is a pretty big single engine plane. The IL-2's tail feathers remind me of a DC-3.

In profile, the IL-2 is much shorter...probably due to the inline engine versus the big radial at the end of the P-47. The IL-2 almost looks "squashed" next the T-bot.

[JDK]

Interesting thought.
Specifications (Il-2M3)
Length: 11.6 m (38 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 14.6 m (47 ft 11 in)
Height: 4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 38.5 m² (414 ft²)

Specifications (P-47D Thunderbolt)
Length: 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Wingspan: 40 ft 9 in (12.42 m)
Height: 14 ft 8 in (4.47 m)
Wing area: 300 ft² (27.87 m²)
Source - Wikipedia.

While the P-47 was effective as a ground attack aircraft, it was neither a tank buster nor designed for the role, but as a fighter; conversely the Il-2 was designed primarily as a tank buster and had no fighter capability. Fair enough to have them in such a flyday theme, but they are very different approaches to actually different tasks of air to ground work.

And as ever, great pics, by the Spook!

Regards,