Warbird Information Exchange

Thinking more about the question........

I've flown Cubs Champs Tigermoths Fleets Cherokee etc in reality anything I'm flying is a fav at that moment but Biplanes...now there is just something about evening flights, the setting sun framed between wires struts and wings, the wind in your face and the thump of an old engine coursing thru your body ...leather helmet and jacket ...goggles......

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...it was a plane adrift beneath the moon moving serenely thru beams like an angel of the night .....fair as a song ........aloof from mortal dreams

Ooooohhh......you mean like this?








I hear ya'!!! Sure is fun doing that stuff.

Gary

Great pictures gary!!! BUT that airplane is missing one important item...........here is a hint!

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

Here is some more!





The picture above, the mountain to the left of the pic is called camels hump.............there is a B-24 wreck on it.

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

I agree.....no round motor in my pictures!

(But it was still fun....and it was in New Zealand!)

Gary

I have a lot of favorites, but I think my choice would be... whatever I'm flying at the time!
Jerry

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

well, I'm not sure but . . . round motors are great, but the upside down part trumps the radial.

Biplane: Waco UPF-7
Warbug: L-5
Trainer (single engine): Timm N2T-1
Trainer (twin): AT-21
Observation: O-47
Single Engine Dive Bomber: SBD-6
Single Engine Fighter: Spitfire Mk. 24
Unlimited Racer: Kingcobras
Twin Fighter: P-61 and F-82B (to close to call)
Transport: C-47
Bomber (twin): A-26
Bomber (4 eng.): B-17G
Jet fighter: F-107
Jet Bomber: YB-49
Kitplane: Thunder Mustang

I was told that your favorite airplane is always the one you're flying. In that case, a C-177 RG. Too bad it isn't a warbird.

But for all-time-coolest-bar-none-favorite-airplane, it *has* to be the XB-70.

Second to that is the Avro Arrow. Guess I have a soft spot for fast deltas that never got a chance to prove themselves...

CO

Thanks for the compliment . I shot that image just before sunrise on December 14, 2006. Chuckie was parked out on the ramp in front of the hangar, facing south, and we were getting her ready for the short hop from Meacham to DFW for their annual Aviation Career Fair. The "dawn's early light" effect was perfect! I'll have to admit, that is one of my better images.

BTW, you may not realize it, but you and I have met several times, both at the VFM hangar and at a couple of local car shows.

Cheers!

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

Yes I know. k5dh....I'm seeing all kinds of old friends on this Board, Haven't been up there with the plane for a bit...although have been there by 4 wheeler. Lookin forward to the season starting again and flying more. Jimbo asked me to come up with the plane for that DFW hop but alas I had to work at my real day job that day. Probably see y'all sometime soon.

My favorite is the.....

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, And in the darkness bind them

My favorite is the....KC-97 (it needed a "real" flight engineer)