Vintage aircraft photo thread

[nahmus]

Corsair?

 

[Donk]

Corsair?

Avenger would be my guess

 

[surpip]

TBM,
Corsair is behind it.

 

[nahmus]

I may have missed this. Do you work in a shop that repairs old planes?

 

[64Trvlr]

Got a new hanger mate.

TBM?

 

[surpip]

I may have missed this. Do you work in a shop that repairs old planes?

Yea, we’re known for sea fury’s, but we’re rebuilding a F7F and a Corsair from the ground up right now.

 

[Will Scarlet]

 

[Joez]

Yea, we’re known for sea fury’s, but we’re rebuilding a F7F and a Corsair from the ground up right now.

Love the F7F's, got to see two of them in formation at oshkosh a few years ago, along with a wildcat, hellcat, bearcat, tigercat flight.

 

[Joez]

Got a new hanger mate.

Local anual TBM Avenger reunion. Such a cool plane.

 

[smurfblue40]

Yea, we’re known for sea fury’s, but we’re rebuilding a F7F and a Corsair from the ground up right now.

I think I saw one of the sea fury’s at the Rancho Murieta airport a few years ago. The sound of the engine got my attention

Any connection with Dennis Sanders ? I knew he and his wife from the HOA (casually)

 

[surpip]

I think I saw one of the sea fury’s at the Rancho Murieta airport a few years ago. The sound of the engine got my attention

Any connection with Dennis Sanders ? I knew he and his wife from the HOA (casually)

Yup, Dennis owns the place.

 

[surpip]

Good noises.

 

[surpip]

Local anual TBM Avenger reunion. Such a cool plane.

Where was this?

 

[Joez]

Where was this?

Illinois Valley Regional Airport in Peru, Illinois. They usually get 7-8 of them there at a time, then various other warbirds. B17, B25, C47, Corsair, plenty of T6's, I'll dig a few more photos up from other years.

 

[Joez]

A few random ones from the last few years. I need to upload some of the videos of the TBM's all at WOT to YouTube next.

 

[Will Scarlet]

 

[Kriptonite]

Three T6 Texans at the local airport.

 

[planefixer]

Three T28 Trojans at the local airport.

Fixed.

 

[XtremeJ]

Fixed.

Thanks planefixer

Real men flew tail draggers.

 

[YJLOPES]

Real men flew tail draggers.

Quoted for truth...

 

[Joez]

A few more

 

[Blueleader]

Spent the weekend in Hood River, OR at the WAAAM fly-in. Highly recommend visiting the place if you're ever in the area. It's a good mix of vintage aircraft and automotive, with a bunch of other historical stuff mixed in.

 

[Rttoys]

This flew over today. Neighbor said it’s a B25?

 

[Joez]

This flew over today. Neighbor said it’s a B25?

Your neighbor would be correct

 

[87manche]

Edit:
Its real big. Like makes a dc3 look tiny. The flight deck is super cool, and because Howard Hughes was a weirdo it's all just like it was in 1947. All the test equipment is still inside. All the instruments are still there. Ah the stuff that tends to go missing in old aircraft. Oddly the apus had hundreds of hours on them.

 

[Will Scarlet]

 

[planefixer]

Nice PT-17 Stearman stopping in. My Granddad learned how to fly in one of these.

 

[Will Scarlet]

 

[Nvr-enough]

Just grabbed this pic online from the tail number, but this plane was buzzing around my house for a few hours yesterday, cool to see.

 

[bdkw1]

Nice PT-17 Stearman stopping in. My Granddad learned how to fly in one of these.

I did quite a bit of work on this one and got a couple rides in it before it went in wheels up.

I worked for John on and off for over 10 years. He was the definition of adventurer. Even into his 90' he'd say fuck it, hop in his model T and drive halfway across the country.