Extramural Activities, Hidden Talents and Hobbies...

Given that there are a couple of plane nuts ( apart from myself ) here's a few pics I took last Sunday ( 23/04 ) at Caboolture airfield

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The P51 sounded amazing and I could just about touch the wing tip as it taxied past

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http://vid210.photobucket.com/albums...psnwguz2kj.mp4

I also got some flight video on my phone but because of the glare it was all miss and no hit :(

Nice looking MIG17, but what's the blue one in your last post? Looks like a Douglas SBD Dauntless, but not quite.

Just a Harvard trainer I think, in US Navy colours (so really an SNJ). Two bladed prop, not the 3- or 4-bladed ones of the similar looking combat aircraft.

Looks like a great day out Dave! Love the SE5 replica.

Zandit, I'd say it's a T-6 Texan/Harvard.

edit - Simon beat me to it while I was looking at the pretty pictures :) Out of interest the T-6 was developed out of the same aircraft as the Australian Wirraway.

Nicely spotted guys! I knew I had the wrong plane, but it was the only one that was close enough.

It's a shame no-one seems to make true rotary engines that would fit a lot of WW1 replicas. Instead they often use a flat-4 Lycoming engine, sometimes adding fake non-rotating cylinders, or sometimes (as in the case of the red DR-1) not.

The Fokker is having a replica motor built which should be in for next years event, the SE5a, Camel & Fokker flew together.

There was also an Me190e that was very impressive both on the ground and in the air, if I have a pic of it I'll put it up

Thanks for sharing those!! I love piston engined aircraft, especially W2 single seaters!

The Wirraway - and the Boomerang - were developed from the Harvard and were flown into combat against the Japanese Type 0 and Kawasaki 61s by some very, very brave men....

I was lucky enough to attend a couple of airshows when we lived in Europe and loved seeing the Vulcan and the Red Arrows, but the W2 piston engines are very well represented in Aus and NZ; there's a lovely airworthy Wirraway in Caboolture...

I like 'em so much - and am in such awe of the men who flew 'em during the war - that I did a homage to my father; a W2 Kittyhawk & Corsair pilot, on an old Vantage guitar...