Cool day at the airshow

But this was the highlight of the day. Lancaster, Mosquito, Spitfire and two Hurricanes flying in formation. Awesome sight and sound.

Host the picture on photobucket, or something other than facebook, so we can see it, eh?

I'm happy from the description alone, but yeah, seeing the real deal would be better.

Ten Merlins at ONCE!?!?! You lucky SOB.

Thanks for fixing my link.

We took my 84yo Dad with us. His brothers all served. My Uncle John crewed a Hallifax then as a tail gunner in a Lancaster. My Uncle Bruce flew and was wounded early in the war. He came home and ended up as a quality control inspector on the Mosquito assembly line at the deHaviland plant in Toronto. This Mosquito was built at that plant so he may have inspected it.

I assume that is the Lanc from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. What a fantastic sound that thing makes!!!

love the mosquito.. one of my favourite planes

We went with the family too, and had a great time. I've never seen my poor kids as frightened as when the CF18 took off.... My 3 year old "loved the planes, except that really loud one". A great day out.

Glad to see a mozzy flying again. I cried when they crashed that one awhile ago.

The Mosquito lives down the road from me - we went down to see it fly a couple of weeks ago, but the runway (grass) was too soft.

In reply to bludroptop:

Makes you wonder how they could take off from grass fields in rainy britain......

Bigger balls.

They were likely a bit more willing to take chances with a less then ideal field back then (repair, making more, is less of an issue). Now days, the planes are worth such an insane amount of money, you don't want to take any chances.

I have been to an number of airshows and have seen a very good variety. There are two planes I would not mind seeing though. One is the Mosquito, the other is one of them new Me-262 (even if they are not truly original)

^^ Speaking of the Me-262, a friend of mine took these photos (Hamilton, Ontario airshow):

I was told that this was built after the war as a reconstruction, but was given a genuine serial number (or something, I'm a little unsure of the exact details and the source of those details). And that's all I know :P

Yes, there were a couple of 262's build (maybe 4?). I think at least two of them are two seat (trainer / night fighter). They are completely scratch built, no original parts. The project was started in Texas and was eventually sold / moved to the Northwest. The flew the first one not terribly long ago.

The engine of course are not even close to the originals (I think they have fake skins under the doors that look like the original Jumo engines), and are of more powerful, way smaller and wildly more reliable then the originals (TBO was 40 hours on the originals? Hey, it was pretty much the first jet engine).

Update:

Here is the website:

http://www.stormbirds.com/project/general/profiles.htm

They actually built 5 of them.

Now I'm druelling. And I thought we had good shows here in florida.

I showed the site to my father and brother. They can't wait to go next year.