A nice thing happened yesterday.

[Richie]

I was sitting at the computer yesterday and I thought I heard something go over head that sounded like a V-12. No way I thought. A few minutes latter I went and checked the powder magazines for the blasting company I work for and headed back home. As I went by the Kelowna airport I saw what must have been the V-12 noise a P-51. I drove the rest of the way home witch is about 4-5 miles and got my camera. Phoned my close friends and told them to get their butts down there..No one showed. I went back down the hyw to the airport and sat around for about an hour outside the fence taking pictures and looking at the aeroplane that I absolutely can't stand. When you're all by yourself looking at one you can really admire it.

[furbs]

Yep its odd, the P-51 does absolutely nothing for me at all. I admire what it did and the pilots who flew it, but for me it just doesn't have any personality or character. I always hated flying it in IL2 too.

Still always good to see a WW2 warbird. :grin:

[pupo162]

well, yesterday at 1 am, some huge prop aircraift decided to land in lisbon airport.

the problem with prop Aircraifts vs Commercial airjets, ist that they come in lower, and with the throttle open, also there was probably a lot of wind, becouse it did enough noise to wake me up.

Not a p51, but it was a cool noise.

[Richie]

Yep its odd, the P-51 does absolutely nothing for me at all. I admire what it did and the pilots who flew it, but for me it just doesn't have any personality or character. I always hated flying it in IL2 too.

Still always good to see a WW2 warbird. :grin:


I think the History Chanel ruined any chance of me having any affection for the P-51. Any program I've seen it's like they have an Oral Roberts on praising the old time gospal of this aeroplane. However to stand by one without this babble going on in my head like I said before I can admire it in peace. Although it's too bad it wasn't a 109. :)

[WTE_Galway]

I think the problem with the P51 for many people is familiarity, there are so many around. It features on 1000s of trashy history channel shows wherein we are told over and over it "won the war" and we see them at Reno every year. But more significantly every airshow seems to features one or two examples.

Unfortunately being told "hey, there is an airshow 2 hours up the road and it features a P51" just does not have the same effect as being told ""there is an airshow 2 hours up the road and it features an Emil or Hurricane or he111 or p38 or b17 etc etc".

[Robert]

I like the P-51 and think it's a classy looking, deadly airplane. That said, if a local airshow had both a Storch and a P-51, I'd go there for the Storch before the P-51. Familiarity does breed a form of contempt, and like Galway alludes to, the P-51 historical prominance has been covered and exagerated to the detriment of itself and other planes that were just as, if not more important to other countries.

[Al Schlageter]

See all kinds of WW2 a/c flying around as http://www.vintagewings.ca/ is across the river.

There is also the Canada Aviation and Space Museum http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/visit_us/at_the_museum/

[tools4fools]

Buddy of mine told me he was going down the autobahn next to an airfield in Germany, his girlfriend driving. Saw a 190 on the runway and shouted "oh, that was a Focke-Wulf there".
She said "oh, I didn't see it, did I hit it? I'm so sorry"...
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[Richie]

Buddy of mine told me he was going down the autobahn next to an airfield in Germany, his girlfriend driving. Saw a 190 on the runway and shouted "oh, that was a Focke-Wulf there".
She said "oh, I didn't see it, did I hit it? I'm so sorry"...



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I rest my case. Let's hear a little more about the other sides aeroplanes.

[Jaws2002]

Pics or it didn't happen.:mrgreen:

[Richie]

Pics or it didn't happen.:mrgreen:

Ya ya..the full roll hasn't been shot yet. Yes I actually still use a 35 mm SLR film camera.