FHC Ground Attack Day 9-29-12

spookythecat · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:37 pm

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 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:32 pm

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

maxum96 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:27 pm

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

bugazon · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2012 2:19 pm

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

ktst97 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:22 am

Thank you, Al.
Very good photos!

Ken · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:04 am

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

dors · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:06 am

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

spookythecat · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:21 pm

Ken wrote:

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

It was broken

alang · **Joined:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:08 pm **Posts:** 87

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

SaxMan · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:20 am

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 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:28 am

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,

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