FHC Zero/P-40 and HFF North American Fly Day

spookythecat · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:00 pm

Lots of great flying at Paine Field this past Saturday. It started at noon with the public debut of the Flying Heritage Collection Zero as well as the P-40 in it's new paint. After that Historic Flight Foundation celebrated North American built aircraft by putting up 7 aircraft. Only complaint is that the high noon lighting makes for less than stellar pictures.

And being Paine Field you never know what surprises you may get.

mazdaP5 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:04 pm

Cool pics, thanks for sharing.

CWBuff · **Joined:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:14 am **Posts:** 854

Super groovy! You know I'm diggin' the Hawk, but the Zero looks pretty trick too... nice, nice, nice...

Thanks for sharing these, Al...

Fade to Black...

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7815

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 987

Awesome aircraft. Love'em. Looks like quite a tight fit in the back of the Zero.

Chappie

Jeff H · **Joined:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm **Posts:** 140

Excellent stuff as usual.

You are spot on with your noon lighting conditions. It is the complaint of many from all corners of the globe.

Cheers,

Jeff :spit

slinky · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:53 am

Stuka????? I think I missed that thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Replica, rebuild, restoration????? WAY COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW, Outstanding pix of some rare planes, esp the Zero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love the 2 seats!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sasquatch · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:17 am

Spooky!

My drool cup runneth over!!

Thanks for posting those...as usual, yours are truly excellent shots!

--Tom :drink3:

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7815

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:33 pm

Well done as always...

PinecastleAAF · **Joined:** Fri May 25, 2007 4:50 pm **Posts:** 1028

I'll be interested to see which type returns to the air first, Stuka or Black Widow.

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:26 pm

PinecastleAAF wrote:

I'll be interested to see which type returns to the air first, Stuka or Black Widow.

Black Widow by a country mile.

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

Nice shots Al, it looks as though you had much better lighting than we did over on the HFF side of the field.

spookythecat · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:32 am

Mike wrote:

Nice shots Al, it looks as though you had much better lighting than we did over on the HFF side of the field.

Thanks! It's usually a toss up but I think it's just slightly better on the FHC side. Plus there's the startup, taxi and parade after the flying. The passes tend to be closer on the HFF side though.

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:52 pm

Way cool stuff Al.

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