Warbird Information Exchange

I've been going thru my archives and coming across some interesting warbird pics. As time permits I'll scan and share them. Here's the first batch. (Maybe some of you will recognize some old friends/favorites)

Bridgeport CT June 1979 -- My first airshow!

I was 11 and had for the past 2 years been into ww2 aircraft and had built tons of models and watched every ww2 movie that was on tv. This was the first time I'd seen the real deal -- 4 P51's, a Wildcat, a B-17, 3 T-6's and a Corsair on a pole! I know it wasn't TOM but for an 11 year old getting his first taste of the sights and sounds of warbirds!! It all started for me here.















Peter

Love the pics of "Passion wagon" to bad you did not get any of her "good side". but at the age of 10, maybe you did and your parrents found it???

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

Another queston, Dick Foote still have his FM-2? I still have fond memories of him comming up to Burlington with the wildcat and the kate and zero.

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

Last time I saw Dick Foote flying his FM2 was at TICO in March of 2000. Maybe someone else here knows the latest.

Pete

Thanks for the pics!!
I was there also and it brought back a lot of memories! I actually had a photo pass and was able to get out on the flight line. Scott Smith was flying the black Mustang "GE GE", and though the B-17 has been always associated with Bill Harrison, a part owner in 1979 was the late George Enhorning, the owner of P-51 "Passion Wagon". They were planning around the world flight with the B-17, but it never hapened and it was later donated to EAA. I believe that this may have been the first airshow the B-17 atteneded as a "Warbird" in it's re-created WWII paint scheme.

The best thing about that weekend was Friday, the day before the show, about 20 miles north, at Oxford Airport. I took the day off from my summer job and all the warbirds that were going to be at the show were on the field there(Enhorning's home base). No crowds around and they were flying all day. That was my first encounter with a live, breathing Flying Fortress. A very memorable time indeed.
Thanks again for the flood of memories!!!
Blue skies,
Jerry

The photos bring back great memories for me as well as all these aircraft attended the early CWH shows in Hamilton, Ontario. That B-17 was the first I had ever seen in person.

Eric

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and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

I heard last year Mr. Foote's Wildcat was up for sale. I saw him fly at Tico 2003.