Sight of a warbird in 2009 that gave you goosebumps?

[crashhappy1980]

thats a great story ww2 vets are some of the greatest people we'll ever know i've always been a big ww2 buff growing up hearing my grandfather tell his storys great men they all were but back to the goosebumps thing it wasn't in 2009 for me it was back in 1999 i was working in a lawn and garden center hey i was youg and needed money lol it was a friday i just got there after school and im walking across the parking lot and i hear this plane so i look up and wouldn't you know it its a b17 i think it was on its way to the westover airshow now im all excited im asking everyone around me if they saw it but no one really seemed to care witch was kind of sad but then i hear this guy telling his kid oh my god did you see that! that was a b17 and that made me smile cuz some one else did care

[Vulcan607]

Vulcan XM558 on it way to southport airshow, those olympuses make the air crackle.
god im begining to get like Foz, always mentioning one type of aircraft.

[winny]

Originally Posted by Vulcan607

Vulcan XM558 on it way to southport airshow, those olympuses make the air crackle.
god im begining to get like Foz, always mentioning one type of aircraft.

I watched it's display at Southport.. Loud, very loud. I'd also seen one of the last Vulcan Displays as a child (which was much louder and more of a proper display)

I also saw the B2 stealth bomber at Fairford Airshow (2003) which was very impressive if only for the 5!! F-15's that were escorting it (which happens because the B2 is so valuable that it needs escorting everywhere it goes when not operational) It had flown non stop from the USA with the escorts and did one flyby left to right and one back the other way and went back to the states (10 hours away) There were 5 tankers involved just to get them there and back and the whole display lasted 2 mins!

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Vulcan607

Vulcan XM558 on it way to southport airshow, those olympuses make the air crackle.
god im begining to get like Foz, always mentioning one type of aircraft.

It was about the lanc, not the hurricane. i mentioned the spitfire to, and how nice it sounded!!

[Vulcan607]

I know i know, =)

[Soviet Ace]

Well, the video isn't from last year. Nor did I shoot the video, I just happen to find it on Youtube, while looking for some more recent 2009 footage of the Chino Air Show, but none the less. I always love seeing this little 'Flying Barrel' come flying over head. (IT'S GOT THE SAME ENGINE AS THE I-16!!)

F3F-2 "Flying Barrel"

[flynlion]

Some time ago I was flying a leg between Minneapolis MN and Charlotte NC at about 35,000 ft when ATC announced traffic at 11 Oclock and 2,000 feet below, oposite direction. Turned out to be a B-2 on his way home to Whiteman AFB after a LOOOONNNGGG mission overseas, probably Afghanistan. The thing was gorgeous, and HUGE, much bigger than I expected. It gave me goosebumps thinking about how the guys inside that plane had been in combat only hours before, how long their mission was, how many people might have died because of it or had been saved because of it, and once again the sheer beauty of the B-2. When I asked ATC how they coud track it on radar he replied that the B-2 crews need to have their transponders active whenever they're under ATC control

[Spitfire23]

Originally Posted by flynlion

Some time ago I was flying a leg between Minneapolis MN and Charlotte NC at about 35,000 ft when ATC announced traffic at 11 Oclock and 2,000 feet below, oposite direction. Turned out to be a B-2 on his way home to Whiteman AFB after a LOOOONNNGGG mission overseas, probably Afghanistan. The thing was gorgeous, and HUGE, much bigger than I expected. It gave me goosebumps thinking about how the guys inside that plane had been in combat only hours before, how long their mission was, how many people might have died because of it or had been saved because of it, and once again the sheer beauty of the B-2. When I asked ATC how they coud track it on radar he replied that the B-2 crews need to have their transponders active whenever they're under ATC control

Oh wow, that must have been one hell of a sight seeing a B-2 2,000ft below you. im yet to go to a airshow that has the B-2 as a display act, id kill to see one up close. Maybe Fairford air tattoo has one? i know the F-117 used to fly there