Warbird Adventures...

[WIXerGreg]

These are great pictures Jim, thanks for posting!

[B-25 C]

Next best thing to being there. Thanks for the pictures.

[B-17 Buff]

Jim,

Your pictures are fantastic, they allow us that couldn't make it (including people like me from 'over the pond') to imagine what it was like to not only be at Thunder, but what it is like to participate in such an event. As a commercial pilot and instructor longing to get into warbird flying over here in the UK, I often read your posts with great interest and envy - you are living my dream! Keep up the good work and one day I hope to take up that offer to all and get my check ride in the '25 done with you on your side of the pond!!

[JimH]

Big Jumps across the Northeast...Ohio, PA, and now New York. Flew down the Hudson today. FAA put new rules in place which requires a study course online. Pretty simple stuff but manditory. The tour helicopters really got a kick of seeing a B-24 trucking down the Hudson. The hardest part is keeping at or below 140kts.



WOR Corsair now at MAPS


Skypark...15G...where I got my Private done...pretty cool to fly over in a B-24!

BTW...the spars have been sawn through on the Corsair...including all the associated hydraulic lines and wiring harneses.

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[hang the expense]

I'll post more photos later...learning how to rivet today, we are overhauling an AT-6 canopy. The wing is the FW190 from White 1...note the "floating ribs"...odd way to build a wing.

jim

Good for you Jim.After you play with that wing for a while you will see why they built it that way.Builds pretty quick.

[Ztex]

Why below 140kts? so you don't run over a helo?


Cool over the Hudson pics!

[JimH]

I'm sure they don't want people in fast movers zipping down the corridor. The transition zone is between 1,000 and 1,300ft MSL at or below 140kts with manditory reporting points. Alpine Tower, George Washington Bridge (GWB), Intrepid, ...yada yada. Its still fun to do and still fairly easy. The only concern is the pop up TFRs around the baseball stadiums...gotta read the sports page to see if they are playing that day.

jim

[Pogo]

Boy, do I ever enjoy seeing reports and pics directly from the cockpit of Witchcraft as she gads about the good old USA!!

Jim, wonder if you'd care to tap out a few words describing what it takes to keep such a war horse reined back to 140 or below?

[JimH]

No problem Pogo...normally we use 30" and 2000rpm for cruise, this gives us and indicated airspeed of around 160mph. The GPS reads in kts. so I used 28" and 1800rpm to run down the corridor, which worked out to be around 125-135kts. The B-24 does not like to fly slow and wallows alittle more than normal but it is not bad. The new rules for the Hudson corridor dictate that we stay between 1,000 and 1,300' msl. Once out of the corridor we pushed it back up to normal cruise. We had some pretty heavy hitters onboard for the media flight. I haven't seen any newspapers today but all the big ones were with us...New York Times, Wall Street Journal...etc.. They really enjoyed it and promised us good New York coverage.

hope that helps!
jim

[Pogo]

Thanks so much! It's the next best thing to getting to ride along in the jump seat.

[RNDMTRS4EVR]

Great pictures! Last time I saw that many B-17's together was back in the 70's at Hemet, CA when they were fighting a big fire up at Big Bear. Keep those pictures coming please!

Scott.............

[JimH]

More from the Collings tour. We were stuck in Hyannis yesterday with low ceilings, left O dark early this morning for Beverly. Flew the Foundations T-6 today...what a nice machine! more photos to come...

[JimH]

a few more from yesterday...
trucking past the 17 on the way to Beverly
North American Made
Pat off my wing

"wicked" beautiful coast...

[Django]

This is shaping up to be a fantastic thread Jim! Thanks for sharing.

[Airplanejunkie]

[quote="JimH"]a few more from yesterday...
trucking past the 17 on the way to Beverly

That's just flat out freakin cool!

Sign me up!