The Great WIX Photo Contest 2009!

Dave Hackett · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:21 am

Since I did a 51 to start.....Guess this can be my veteran pic!

Thanks for the reminder on the caption....

"Can it really be 65 years already?"

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:30 am

Dave Hackett wrote:

Since I did a 51 to start.....Guess this can be my veteran pic!

Caption please?

Ryan

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:49 am

Ok, I just edited the original post with further information on the Grand Prize. I'd still like to be able to offer the Best Warbird Category photo a prize as well as have an overall grand prize winner. The Grand Prize right now (unless someone want's to top it and bump the current grand prize down to the Best Warbird Photo slot) is I believe one of Kee Bird's original cylinders.

I've gotten a few submissions via the email account (Yay!) and all qualifying entries that I receive that way will end up being hosted here: http://picasaweb.google.com/WIXPhotoContest so I can organize them all for the judges. I'll have to pull off the entries posted in this thread as well later.

Don't forget to read the rules and make sure to include the caption(s) with your photos!

Thanks,

Ryan

spookythecat · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 3:46 pm

For Best WIX photo of the year I suggest either of these as they represent all of us and what we all went through together with the loss of Gary.

The first one is by scfan

This one is by Ztex

Both can be found in this thread.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32816&start=0

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:40 am

Bump... Don't forget to send in your entries before the deadline!

Ryan

Flying Buckeye · **Joined:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:36 pm **Posts:** 14

These are for the L-bird category

Caption: "Coming Home"

"The High Speed Pass"

sdennison · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:08 pm

For what they are worth:

Never saw the second plane until I looked at the picture downloaded.

Rainy days and Wednesdays...

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:20 pm

Keep 'em coming!

Ryan

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:45 am

Well, it isn't much of a contest right now! Let's see some more pictures! If you don't want them revealed right away, send them via email per the address above!

Ryan

evanflys · **Joined:** Mon May 25, 2009 11:07 pm **Posts:** 78

This is my friend Bill Getz. I took this while we were in the Collings Foundations B-24 "Witchcraft". Bill flew a complete combat tour piloting B-24's over Germany, and then volunteered to fly with the Scouting Force in P-51's. He flew another 175 hours as a scout and even shot down an Me-262!

That's me and Bill in front of the Collings Foundation's P-51C. (Bill flew a D)

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This is my friend Jack Burke. My dad took this shot in the Collings Foundation B-17 "Nine-O-Nine". Jack flew 28 missions in a ball turret over Germany. He hadn't been in a B-17 for 65 years and two days! My dad saw tears in his eyes.

You can read my write up of the day here http://evanflys.com/collings_foundation

Those are my entries for the "Warbird with Veteran" category.

Evan

evanflys · **Joined:** Mon May 25, 2009 11:07 pm **Posts:** 78

Steve Hinton Jr. in Strega

Rare Bear!

These are my favorite 2009 Reno Race photos.

Evan

buffcc · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:10 am

"Aging Poorly"

It had been just under 38 years since I last saw this plane. I have to declare that 566 looked much better when I was in charge of her. This is the airplane that set a new on-time take-off record of 58 consecutive OTTOs for the 320th Bomb Wing at Mather AFB. The previous record had been 45 OTTOs. The new record combined with Crew Chief of the month 8 times in one year earned me the Master Crew Chief award in 1971, and caused me to be upgraded away from 566 and into job control. This picture was taken the day before Thanksgiving of this year. It took slightly less than two years and an act of God to get me out into the boneyard. I had to pull some strings through various contacts to get a custom special tour to reunite with 566 for some quality time together. If anybody is interested in taking on 566 for a restoration project, I'll volunteer to help.

Gary M · **Joined:** Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:27 pm **Posts:** 56

Category One: Warbird

"It was a lot smaller airplane than I once thought"

"Don't forget to flare!"

Category Four: Warbird with Veteran (my Dad!)

"War Weary"

"Me and the 25........."

Ztex · **Posted:** Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:35 pm

Veteran with Warbird...
Collings Foundation Huey with genuine veteran pilot! (I can't remember his name...Maybe Rick will chime in.. )

WIX thread related...(sort of)
THE Defender Bob Demert shows up in Texas!
:shock:

Reenactment Photo...
Hueys at Wings Over Houston...

Warbird photo
Real work being done on a Warbird
(At the Lancaster, TX fly-in...the B-24 had a flat and they needed a bit of umph to get it ready to jack up.

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:12 pm

Well I'm not real big on entering contests, but here's about my favourite Mustang photo of the year...

And a pretty good Sharkmouth shot...

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