Wings over Gillespie - OT airshow pics

[heywooood]

Taken today...

hope you like 'em

 

[dharris]

Some excellent planes, thanks for sharing

 

[N2056]

Cool pics!

I might wander over tomorrow and check it out. The tickets are kind of pricy for me right now. On the plus side I get the B-25 and B-17 flying over the house pretty low for free!

 

[heywooood]

couple more...

 

[Bomber_12th]

Excellent photos, of what looks like a superb event! I love that Black/Gold Waco especially!

What's the story on the Corsair restoration?

 

[OleBoy]

Excellent photos, of what looks like a superb event!

I like the older GA. Especially the polished aluminum and green Cessna, and the Swift :ernae:

 

[heywooood]

Excellent photos, of what looks like a superb event! I love that Black/Gold Waco especially!

What's the story on the Corsair restoration?

It is being restored by the SD Aerospace Museum - I was there yesterday at their annex which is located at Gillespie Field. Anyone can volunteer there and help out.

They have the wings off, obviously at the fold, and are refurbishing them - they had the flap sections pulled off along with all access panels etc...

The cowling was finished but they left it off for the static display to show off the engine, blower, and cooling ducting - which is pretty cool - I had never seen a Corsair with her skirts up before.

 

[heywooood]

I like the older GA. Especially the polished aluminum and green Cessna, and the Swift :ernae:

those were among my favorites too..along with the Grumman F3F-2, the Cessna 190 radial

and the fancy Stearman in Red/Maroon and Gold and the Black Waco Taperwing

couple more of those...

 

[Bomber_12th]

Thank you for the additional photos and information on the Corsair project! I had forgotten about that one. It is a very late model Corsair, an F4U-7, that served with the French Aeronaval. Many years later it ended up on display at Battleship Park, in Mobile, Alabama, painted as an AU-1 Corsair. After Hurricane Katrina hit the area in 2005, there was not enough money to fix the damage that was done to it, so it was sent to the San Diego museum.

Here's a photo of what it looked like in 1989:

 

[Hughes-MDflyer4]

heywooood, I wonder if we passed each other today, as I was at the airshow as well.

 

[heywooood]

oh you meant THAT story...lol

I hadn't gotten that far with the questions when I was there yesterday...

I did meet a fellow who flew them - in 1950 before being transitioned to the Banshee...and then on to two tours in Vietnam in the F-4 Phantom. So many stories to tell, and me the avid listener.

 

[heywooood]

heywooood, I wonder if we passed each other today, as I was at the airshow as well.

well if you passed a middle aged feller in a brown ballcap with a tiny, cheesy camera in his hand and a dumb grin on his face - then yes...we did

 

[N2056]

I lobbied my dad to display the Thorp, but to no avail. Our hangar is on the west side of the field. You probably saw it today without knowing it!

 

[heywooood]

you know I looked for it...there are a lot of hangars and aprons and whatnot at Gillespie - its pretty spread out too. Much bigger than it seems to be. I sure would have taken a picture of the Thorp and posted it here had I found it.

 

[Paul K]

Some very interesting aircraft there; the older GA particularly. Nice Firefly too.

Great photos Heywoood, well worth the posting.

 

[roger-wilco-66]

Great photos, thanks for sharing! :ernae: Nice detail shot of the Corsair.

These pilots are gods (they usually know it ).

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Cheers,
Mark

 

[fsafranek]

That's this weekend, huh? Bummer. I was down in Balboa Park all yesterday. I could have driven over. And today I've got awesome seats for the Padres game. So much for my promise to myself to go to some local airshows this season.

Nice photos in any case. Thanks for sharing.
:ernae:

 

[pilottj]

wow yeah that WACO is a beauty :salute: Was it an ATO?

 

[heywooood]

its a Waco JYM

if you go to the Waco club website and enter the tail code you can see more pictures of this one and a few others...slightly different cowls and colors etc..

http://www.nationalwacoclub.com/memberalbum/slides/1929%20Waco%20JYM%20NC991H.html

http://www.nationalwacoclub.com/talbum/slides/1929 Waco JYM NC731K-2.html

 

[heywooood]

@ Roger Wilco

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with with all the smoke, flame and thunder its no wonder...still - I kept wondering where the fireman with the extinguisher was...isn't it required to have a man standing by with one whenever these bad boys are 'fired up' ??