Barksdale AFB Heritage Flight

[67Cougar]

A few shots from this past weekend's show at Barksdale AFB. Tuna flew the Heritage Flight in LSFM's Tarheel Hal, along with a pair of beautiful QF-4Es from the 82ATRS out of Tyndall AFB. LSFM's Thunderbird also put in a spirited show for the crowd.

Tuna manning the P-47 just prior to engine start


The Heritage pilots for the weekend, Bluto, Tuna, and Holy, in front of Hal


The Heritage pilots in front of one of the QF-4s


QF-4 launch. Holy in the front seat, Bluto in the back


Crossover at the end of Saturday's perfor4mance


Thunderbird's banana pass on Saturday


Thunderbird at crack of dawn, with its much younger offspring being towed in the background

[Robbie Stuart]

Very nice shots, thanks for posting them.

[LARGEFLYER]

So Tuna went from flying the QF-4's to now flying the Thunderbolt!! Very cool!!

Rock on Tuna!!

[Pat Carry]

Nice pics. Love the F-4!

['nothernug]

It was a great show for sure though I wasn't anywhere to get shots like those! Though she didn't fly in the show, there was a nice B25 all the way down to the end by the B2. There was a WWII era Cessna T-50 down that way too. That's a bird you don't see very often.
Here's a few shots from the 'cheap seats'...
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And as a sweetener I had this fly over our house a couple weekends ago...

I live in the pattern of the regional airport is why she had her wheels down. This is from a different tour and this is a different B17 than the airshow's.
You know, great as it was to see and hear the ole Fort rumbling over (no mistaking the sound of radials!), I wish there were more of the earlier models. That chin turret and reconfigured nose glass kind of messes up the lines of the classic B17.