Weekly photo fun May 1st - 7th, 2015

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Chris, I think the B17 you show is the one that overshot the runway at the Beaver County Air Show several years ago. The Air Heritage group put her back together I am told.
I can't make out the tail number, but the R and DR work. I think the one at Beaver county was 231969 on the tail.
Charlie

It absolutely is! I never knew this until I looked it up. I found some really old "news footage" covering it. There was also a train derailment that day apparently, so its somewhat on topic.

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If you visit Hamilton Ontario,I highly recommend a visit to our Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.As well as our famous Lancaster bomber and many more warplanes,last year we had a special visitor---here's a few pictures.

That is definitely going to be my first stop in Canada if I get the chance. I've been wanting to see that Lancaster for a LONG time. They had one at the USAF museum in Ohio, but it was in restoration when I visited many years ago. Does it fly? Gonna have to see if it ever comes close to New Jersey.

That B25 looks great too. Do I see a PBY Catalina body back behind that B17?

Well, I didn't know there was so much interest in airplanes here. Here is the C123 K that they fly to many air shows around the country.

If anyone is in this area (Beaver Falls, Pa, Beaver County Airport) they are open from 9 to 5 daily. It is interesting just to talk to the old veterans that are there.
Charlie

I've seen that C123 both at Air shows and just randomly flying over my house (presumably to some airshow I didn't hear about).

Ironically, its airplanes that got me into model trains. I used to build model airplanes when I was young, but they always frustrated me. I ended up moving towards trains because Blue-box kits are WAY easier than model airplanes. From there you know the rest!

I'm probably one of the few nuts who goes running the moment I hear an old plane of some kind. I've gotten pretty lucky the last few years, I've had TBM Avengers, P51s, B25s, B17s, and B24s all buzz my house. I'm 80% sure I saw a Corsair once too, but it got away before I could get a good look, but the bent wings really give it away.

Being close to the McGuire, the larger tanker and transport planes tend to fly over, and occasionally some fighters will fly by to refuel.