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Two beautiful gals, Betty Jane and the wife. :)
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And.................
On board the B-24 the wife thought she saw an FW190 and took command of the right waist gun. A born gunner I think! :super:
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Good tour of the B17, B24 and P51 war birds, and a solemn reminder of the air war in WWII and the lost crews.
Talk about crawling up on the gun. Good thing those are dummies, if she pulled the trigger on a real one she'd be hurtin' !
I flew Betty Jane for about an hour and a half in March moving her from lake Charles to Sugarland. Sweet machine, My son polished her for a month while she was in Texas.
Is that a C model?
It is a TP51C. The only one in the world. It has a full rear cockpit, not just a stick and pedals.
This is Yankee Lady, in from the midwest for the 2008 Reading, Pennsylvania Air Show. I got to ride in her but they wouldn't let me fire the fifties. I should have offered to pay for the ammo.
And this is Glamorous Gal; she usually makes this show every year. This airplane will never look dated or old fashioned. The P-51 has that "I'm all ready to go" look to it.
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I consider the Catalina to be the most graceful looking airplane that ever took to the sky.
Not at all graceful looking but one serious looking airplane, the Lancaster. I believe it carried a larger bomb load than any of ours.