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

[spookythecat]

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]

Cool pics, thanks for sharing.

[CWBuff]

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]

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[Chappie]

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


Chappie

[Jeff H]

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

[slinky]

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]

Spooky!

My drool cup runneth over!!

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

--Tom

[Mark Allen M]

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[Lynn Allen]

Well done as always...

[PinecastleAAF]

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

[DaveM2]

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

Black Widow by a country mile.

[Mike]

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

[spookythecat]

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]

Way cool stuff Al.