Warbirds in Miami -- 15 March 2015

[florida.warbirds]

https://floridawarbirds.wordpress.com/2 ... g-through/

Wings Over Miami Air Museum would like to share a cool opportunity that is happening out at the museum TOMORROW. (note: email was from yesterday)

Our Museum has received the news that some amazing planes would like to land on their ramp. The planes include: B-25 (2 of them!), F7F (x 2), P-38, P-40, Corsair, TBM and a Zero. This is short notice for the museum, but exciting news!

Aircraft are from the Texas Flying Legends Museum and Lewis Air Legends.

[TAdan]

Awesome, I believe they are passing through on their way to an air show in the Caribbean. St. Barths.

http://www.bucketregattas.com/stbarths/schedule.html

[JohnTerrell]

The Texas Flying Legends have been posting to their Facebook page about this trip to St. Barths for the past several weeks, and they are on their way now.

Today they've posted:

"So the Trip Begins! The Texas Flying Legends crew depart for a historic 2,200 mile trip across international waters! The longest course warbirds have taken across international waters in 70 years. The B-25, P-40K, TBM Avenger, Corsair and Japanese Zero will venture to St Barths for an air show in collaboration with Lewis Air who will join flight with their P-38, B-25 and 2 Tigercats! 9 warbirds across 2,200 miles in celebration of freedom!"

Via FlightAware (following "Betty's Dream" N5672V), they are currently in-flight, halfway between Port Arthur, TX and Dothan, Alabama (and TFL already has video up on their Facebook page from in-flight). http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N5672V

All of the warbirds participating in this journey are:

P-38F Lightning "Glacier Girl" (Lewis Air Legends)
P-40K Warhawk (TFL)
A6M2 Zero (TFL)
FG-1D Corsair (TFL)
B-25J Mitchell "Betty's Dream" (TFL)
B-25J Mitchell "Russian to Get Ya" (Lewis Air Legends)
TBM Avenger (TFL)
F7F Tigercat "La Patrona" (Lewis Air Legends)
F7F Tigercat "Here Kitty, Kitty" (Lewis Air Legends)

[C VEICH]

Here's hoping for lots of pictures of this very exciting event!

[flightsimer]

The longest trip in 70 years? Apparently the Lanc and C-47 crossings from last year don't count nor the C-54 crossing from mid 2000's.

Would be cool to see them passing above though in a boat below. Hopefully the TBM doesn't get lost, lol.

[JohnTerrell]

It is meant to be read as the longest journey over water that these many warbirds have flown together at one time since WWII. Likely due to today's haste, that was left out, but in other previous announcements about the trip it was more clearly defined. There have of course been a ton of solo and grouped warbird journeys (some well known, others done quietly) over the Atlantic over the years. I think of the five B-25's that flew from the US to England for filming Hanover Street.

[Jack Cook]

It is meant to be read as the longest journey over water that these many warbirds have flown together at one time since WWII.

It's good PR but me thinks they forgot about the 5 B-25s that flew to England for the movie Hanover Street.
That flight was much more frought with peril!!

[T J Johansen]

That flight was much more frought with peril!!

I visited Lee Schaller at Schellville some 20 years ago. He owned N86427 "Doolittle Raider" before selling it to Hawke/ Visionair. When I told him they flew it from Oakland to Luton he just looked surprised at me and said; "I wouldn't have flown it around the pattern...".

T J