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Gathering of Mustangs and Legends at LCK

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Mike_ExpressCT

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For anyone who was wondering, the first official day of GML2007 turned out to be a beautiful day with lots of P-51's, as well as many others. At my rough count today at around 1:00, I thought there were around 65 Mustangs, 2 P-38's, 2 P-47's, 2 B-25, 2 B-17's, a Lancaster, and lots of modern USAF hardware. Opening ceremonies were around 9:30, with demo flights of F-16/F-15/F-22, as well as a Thunderbirds practice throughout the afternoon. Overall a great day and it looks like the rest of the weekend will be beautiful as well.

Hopefully a few pictures if anyone's interested (my apologies for the dark spots in the camera...I need to take it back):

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Great picture! That's my friend Nate Davis' mustang in the center. I was there all day today, the official count I heard was 89.
 
Mike_ExpressCT said:
(my apologies for the dark spots in the camera...I need to take it back):
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Mike:

It looks to me like you just need to clean the image sensor. Your camera manual will have instructions on how to do this. You can usually get rid of all the dark spots pretty easily yourself.

Enjoy the rest of the show!
 
Photo Album of GML Trip

Here's a link to my album of some of the many photos I made on Friday. Weather was BEAUTIFUL...as were the airplanes. (Note to Doug...notice my tribute to Danny King's RV-8 in a couple of the photos!)

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Weather between Alabama and Ohio was YUCKY on Thursday, so I flew up on Friday morning and spent the afternoon at Rickenbacker. Missed some of the airshow but the closeups of the P-51's were what I came to see. Travelled back non-stop from I19 (Greene County Airport) to DCU (Pryor Field) in 3 hours on Saturday. Didn't take me long to figure out an RV could make it in apx. 2 hours. Gotta finish my project!

Don
 
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Could it be...Jack Roush???

Monday Night Post Script: I added a lot of captions to my album today mostly identifying the type of P-51 and the owner based on the souvenir book I bought at the GML. Tonight I added a photo of a helmeted, bespectacled pilot preparing for takeoff in a P-51 named "Gentleman Jim." The airplane is owned by Jack Roush, and I have a strong feeling it's Jack Roush himself. I would welcome your thoughts. (Of course, if his helmet had a wide brim like his trademark hats, then we would easily recognize him!)

As I look through the MANY photos I made at the GML, I am seeing lots of good ideas for a paint scheme for my RV-7...:cool:

Here again is the link to my album:

Mustangs

Don
 
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Wonderful pictures! :D And very nice job on the descriptions of the airplanes...I always enjoy reading stuff like that.

Another P-51 that was also owned by Jack Roush was "Old Crow", a plane that is now owned by Scotts Company president Jim Hagedorn (a former F-16 pilot) who has owned the airplane now for a little over a year. It's kept at Port Columbus airport, so thankfully I get to see this airplane all the time:

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I also now realize that I didn't take any pictures of my favorite Mustang there, 'Quick Silver' :( At least I have it on video :p
 
Pretty they were not in the real world.....

My friend, who flew out of Madna in 1944-45, commented that they never looked that good when he flew them. His assigned airplane was new and never looked that good even then. The first time it was rolled the cockpit filled with rivets, cigarette butts, lip stick containers, and other junk, all coming from the belly of the airplane. His crew chief retrieved a couple buckets full of stuff in a subsequent inspection.

Oviously, there was a rush to get these machines to the units. The airplane may not even have flown before shipment to Italy. His machine had a good engine, ran fine for some 400 hours and he protested when maintenance policy dictated a change.

I asked him if he could select the number of guns to fire. Nope, it was all six or nothing. He was on patrol one day escorting some bombers when this twin engine airplane came roaring right through their formatiion headed for the bombers. He was a flight leader then and immediately caught up with the intruder and shot it down. Gun film later determined it was not a German airplane but a Russian machine with a tail wheel. They did not know why a Russian airplane was attacking a US bomber formation but they also did not want to start a war with Russia so he got credit for an "unknown". All this at age 21....their lives certainly were not boring.
 
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