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Pat Carry · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2005 4:51 pm

Awesome aerial photos of Glacier Girl!

Chuck Gardner · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:37 pm

Thanks for the compliments on my pictures. I do take pride in my photography and it is very satisfying to get a few great shots out of the many hundreds that I take. I even wait sometimes for 10 minutes for the crowd to clear out in front of a plane so I can get my shot. It is very frustrating. Sometimes I am just in the right place at the right time and I see something come together and Im able to capture it just right. I know you all go through the same thing at airshows.

Robbie,
My uncle is Ronnie Gardner and he is now chief pilot for Cavanaugh Flight Museum. He flew for the LSFM and the CAF for decades. He has flown almost every WWII plane ever produced and has many thousands of hours in warbirds. I grew up watching him perform at CAF airshows and it was very inspiring to me. That is probably why my love of warbirds has driven my to my profession now. I have flown in a B-25, B-17, DC-3, TBM, T-6s, and a P-51 with him and it was always an awesome experience. Here are a few pictures I have of him.

CFM FM2

CFM P-51

Here are a few pictures I found on the net. These are not my pictures.

Chuck Gardner · **Posted:** Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:44 am

I was told that the Heritage flight yesterday was the P-38, P-51, F-4, and F-16.
I wish I had been there to see it.

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3331

The Heritage Flight yesterday was a pretty special sight. I'll post up some pictures when I return to the UK next week.

If anything, today's even more windy than yesterday. Hopefully it will drop a bit before the airshow starts.

corsair166b · **Posted:** Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:36 pm

Hey, Tim's B-25, with the green dragon on the nose in the pics...where did he get this from? Is this the former Wally Fisk B-25 'Buck'? If it is, it is our old Colorado based 'Can-Do' and before that 'Bronco Bustin' Bomber' with Don Davis...I forget the N number...

Marl

corsair166b · **Posted:** Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:36 pm

Hey, Tim's B-25, with the green dragon on the nose in the pics...where did he get this from? Is this the former Wally Fisk B-25 'Buck'? If it is, it is our old Colorado based 'Can-Do' and before that 'Bronco Bustin' Bomber' with Don Davis...I forget the N number...

MarK

dj51d · **Posted:** Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:43 pm

Yes, Tim Savage's B-25 is the former Wally Fisk 'Buck U'.

Chuck Gardner · **Posted:** Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:48 pm

This is the Wally Fisk B-25 and the dragon nose was painted on very recently.

How about a few more pictures from the airshow?

corsair166b · **Posted:** Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:48 pm

Hmmm...don't know why that question was posted twice...anyway...

Never knew it as 'Buck U', always looked to me like it was 'Buck' in photos with a horseshoe behind it that everyone took as 'U'...anyway...good to know she is in good hands and still flying...also nice to see Fisk fitted a top turret to it, we kept telling Jerry Tepper he needed one when he owned it.

Mark

corsair166b · **Posted:** Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:02 pm

Nice Shot, Rob...yep, ol 'Buck' has had a very active life since leaving Colorado/Wyoming, not that she was stagnant out here either...glad to see she is in good hands with Tim now, someone who values a good warbird and has the financial means to support a plane like her...

Nice shot of the P-38 above, Chuck...funny we did'nt hear about the P-38 exploding into a ball of flame like that... :-)

Mark

JDK · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:27 am

That's a Ducktactular J2F shot!

Did you get any Duck cockpit shots perchance?

henning · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:31 am

So they're flying the Duck now? Thats pretty recent - Are there any others
flying at this point? wow...

And chuck, the picture of you sitting in glacier girls cockpit... wow!
Incredible.. great to be you! Someday I want to hear the story of
how you convinced them to let you sit in there! Any more cockpit
photos of the girl? Sounds like a great feature article in an upcoming
issue of the mag? hint.. hint... :-)

henning

Chuck Gardner · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:40 am

I didnt get any cockpit photos of the Duck because it was not open. They had started performing an annual several weeks ago in preparation for Sun N Fun. Kermit broke his leg about the same time and all of this came to a hault. So it is not airworthy at this point and I dont think that there are any plans to fly it now.
AFAIK, There is one flying Duck and another is being restored. It would be great to see Kermits back in the air again.
I have a few other cockpit shots but they look like the one that is posted. It is amazing how far away the instrument panel is away from the pilot. And I didnt ask to sit in the P-38, the pilot invited me to. Steve Hinton is a really nice guy and he was quite busy all week talking to all of his admirers. The way he flew the P-38 with such finess during the show was outstanding. A beautiful sight to see.

John Ceglarek · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:37 am

I saw the heritage flights on both Friday and Saturday. Very spectacular! Does anyone know where the F-4 came from? Why has the Air Force taken a few out of mothballs? It sure was a pretty sight!

John

RickH · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:49 am

The F-4 is a drone from Tyndall. One pilot is part of the Heritage flight. He's a contract pilot with Lockheed Martin. They have several drones in fancy paint.

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