A Nice Fathers Day

[Bob Womack]

My lovely wife took me to to the local Military Aviation Museum. We got to see up close about forty WWII aircraft, all flying and museum restored, about twenty replica WWI planes, and two actual WWI aircraft. From WWII we walked around the Spitfire Mk IX, the Hawker Hurricane Mk XII, the DeHaviland Mosquito, the P-51, the P-4e, the Yak 3M, the FG4U Corsair, the FM-2 Wildcat, the TBM Avenger, the B-25 Mitchell, the PBY Catalina, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A, the Junkers JU-52, the Fiesler Storch, the Boeing P-26 Peashooter replica, a Curtiss C-46, and a bunch more. Unfortunately the original BF-109G-4 was in the barn for an engine overhaul on its Daimler DB-605 engine. That was the one I most wanted to see. By the way, all the German WWII aircraft reside in a WWII German Hangar from Cottbus airfield that was transplanted and rebuilt.

From WWI we had every major fighter type, including Fokker D.VII, three DRIs including one with an original rotary engine, an Eindecker, and then a Sopwith Triplane, an S.E.5A, a Nieuport 17, an original Thomas Morse 5-4C, an original Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, an Albatros D.VA, etc.

It was a fun afternoon amongst the planes. I'll have to go back when the BF-109 is on display.

Bob