ooh cape may national air races? going to have to see if I can time my next trip there to coincide with them - of course, I'll just have to pretend to the rest of the family we are just going to the beach again 
Once & done I'm afraid. After the dual disastrous mid-air collisions New Jersey banned air racing.
Damn shame, coulda been Reno East, or Cleveland Redux, but, bureaucracy rules, no matter how foolishly.
There do seem to be some news reports & some videos out there, if you're curious.
I can never forget it, and don't care to dwell on the matter, bold men died flying their dreams.
43 years ago this summer, I'm glad I was there, hate I saw it all happen, still sad for the families & friends.
Valerik
The Texan is a BRILLIANT platform....one of my favourite planes to fly. Once you get her of the ground she is PURE JOY. I know she does not have the LOOK of some of the more pulpy planes...but when you are cruising, diving and banking in one, you do think of yourself as a Pulp Flying Hero...well I did.....
Not all Pulp needs to be...flashy and out there....many of the cars and trucks used are rather....well...plain, functional and reliable. That is what the Texan is, so yes I feel she has a place in pulp.
Pete
Pete, I do
NOT disagree, not one lil' bit, however..
For me it comes down to "look"
A T-6
cannot look like anything else but, to mine olde eyes, all four of 'em.
Ditto the DC-3, & the Ju-52, so I gotta believe they'd make me squirmy onna table.
I actually wanna backdate my 1/48 C-47 to a DC-2, surely
somebody makes those bits?
Those who wanna Pulp up their Texan how about a backdate to an NA-16?
Or a CAC Wirraway?
or a Boomerang for that matter.
Tart a T-6 up as a wanna-be warbird, tone down the bright trainer colours, add guns n'bombs to taste.
I'm
possibly convinceable...
Still looks like a Harvard though...
Notta
BAD thing, just sayin'...
Long ago & far away I was presented with an opportunity to purchase, sight unseen, an "early Spitfire spade grip with hydraulic firing button", without even a photo available.
Bless her, the ex- ex-wife, said yes, twas a largish sum, and a gamble, and my package duly arrived, the article in magnificent, almost un-issued condition. She described it as "man-machine interface, circa 1940", & she wasn't wrong. (EVER, but those are other stories.)
Fast forward many, many years, & the majic of the intarwebs revealed FRAUD!!
What I have never graced a Spitfire, or Hurricane, it's AM No AH 2242 proves it is for a Harvard!!
Was I disappointed, sure, I'm a Spitfire guy since age 6...
The fact that as a a Harvard part she's worth 4x-5x more in £ than I paid for it in $ eases the sting...
Not that I'd sell it...
Valerik
hoarding the unhoardable
EDIT: my miserable spelling, & 1 picture
17 August 2011, 02:49:57 PM