Warbird show

[southtexaspilot]

Looking for something to do this weekend? They will be selling rides too. I’ve been watching them fly in all day. I live on the field. West Houston Airport.

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[striker55]

Count me in! I had a flight in AT6 about 10 years ago at a fly in.

 

[southtexaspilot]

Count me in! I had a flight in AT6 about 10 years ago at a fly in. View attachment 316796 View attachment 316797

You can reunite with her!


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[PhulesAu]

Will The West Houston wing be serving pancakes? That the only reason I'd go these days.

 

[southtexaspilot]

Will The West Houston wing be serving pancakes? That the only reason I'd go these days.

I have no idea. I see them setting up tables.


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[southtexaspilot]

No pancakes, just burgers and other grill fare. Corvette club will be on display today. The Porsche club on Sunday. The B-17 and B-25 just arrived.

W


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[striker55]

Wife saw the B-17 flying around.

 

[popper]

AT6, wasn't that originally the Texan SNJ?

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

A very good friend was a B-17 pilot (Captain) dropping bombs on Germany in WW2.

He was shot down once, but was rescued and keep on flying to make his 35 missions.

He was (sadly, he's deceased, but lived well into his nineties) also a Jew.

Had he been captured, I can't begin to imagine the hell that would've been visited upon him.

 

[striker55]

Father-in-law was a nose gunner on a B24, I believe the name was "little kings".

 

[southtexaspilot]

AT6, wasn't that originally the Texan SNJ?

SNJ is what the Navy called it. Army called it the AT6. Had various other names among other countries.

W


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[PhulesAu]

Texas Raiders? Have ridden aboard in the radio op seat to eat pancakes.

 

[IXLR8]

I won a ride in a SNJ a few years ago. It was one of my life highlights.

I was in the back seat. The canopy slides over you to close. In all of the old war movies they fly with the canopies open at takeoff. I asked the pilot if I could. I am not sure but I heard him snickering over the headset.

We started the takeoff roll and when we hit around 90 mph it felt like the roots of my hair were being ripped from my head. I had to close it before we hit 100 ft of altitude.

It may have resulted in permanent hair loss, but worth every second. The pilot let me take the stick for a few minutes and I felt like the most powerful person on earth!

I can’t recommend taking one of these flights enough, if you ever get the chance.