I'll be working the AOPA Convention at Brainard Airport in Hartford, CT all week. Doug Rozendaal brought the Red Tail P-51C Mustang in Monday night and the new Red Tail Squadron trailer is there with a magnificent, 180 degree movie screen inside. The film is wonderful and stunning in the super wide venue! the seats even rumble to the sound track!
Please, if you're in the area, stop in and say hello and watch a wonderful film about some unique American Heroes...The Tuskeegee Airmen!
And for those of you who might be local inhabitants, George Hardy, Tuskeegee Airman, makes an appearance in the film!
See you there!
Jerry
Here's the press release!
P-51C Mustang and Traveling Exhibit
Honoring Tuskegee Airmen Coming to AOPA Aviation Summit
The CAF Red Tail Squadron's rare P-51C Mustang will be in Hartford, Connecticut at the AOPA Aviation Summit on September 22-24, 2011. The WWII-vintage airplane has a bright red tail and flies to honor America's first black military pilots, the legendary Tuskegee Airmen.
The Mustang will be joined by the new CAF Red Tail Squadron RISE ABOVE Traveling Exhibit, a customized 53' trailer with expandable sides that houses a 160-degree curved movie screen and seating for 30 in climate-controlled comfort. A 14-minute original movie called "RISE ABOVE" focuses on what the Tuskegee Airmen - pilots and their support personnel - had to overcome to be allowed to fly and fight for their country during World War II. It also features some great flying footage - in the Mustang -that is enhanced by the long curved screen. The movie was sponsored by the Texas Flying Legends Museum.
The CAF Red Tail Squadron, a volunteer-driven non-profit organization that is part of the Commemorative Air Force, completed a $1 million restoration of the Mustang - named Tuskegee Airmen - in 2009 and the airplane has been on the air show circuit ever since. [The Mustang had been restored once before and toured the air show circuit for three years starting in July 2001 before it crashed due to catastrophic engine failure at a Minnesota air show in 2004.] At each stop, its pilots and crew take every opportunity to tell audiences the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first black fighter pilots to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps (now U.S. Air Force) and the thousands of other black men and women who supported them.
About the CAF:
Collecting, restoring and flying vintage historical aircraft for more than half a century, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) ranks as one of the largest private air forces in the world. The CAF is dedicated to Honoring American Military Aviation through flight, exhibition and remembrance. A non-profit educational association, the CAF has more than 8,000 members and a fleet of 156 airplanes distributed throughout the country to 74 units located in 27 states for care and operation. For more information, visit http://www.commemorativeairforce.org or call (432) 563-1000. For more information about the CAF Red Tail Squadron, visit http://www.redtail.org.
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