Northwest Antique Fly In Friday

Traveled up to Portland, OR via the airlines yesterday with my wife and a good friend. My wife has family and friends we can visit in Vancouver, WA so I found that the 50th Northwest Antique Flyin would be this year at Pearson Field. Texas in August is usually warm so these 60-70 deg. temps make for pleasent walking around airplanes weather!
This afternoon we walked around the early arrivals at Pearson. So far a fairly good turn out... maybe 50 airplanes. Two very nice 1934 Waco YMFs and two nice Fleets. A good number of classic Pipers and Cessnas. Should be a good show! If time allows I will post the highlights from the show tomorrow night. Pictures to come when we are back in Texas.
Northwest Antique Fly In.

Oshkosh 2009 Award Winners

The 2009 Award winners are now posted on the AirVenture web site. Check them out here. Sounds like this was a good year for the P-40s. I read that 5 of the Curtiss fighters made the event. Al Sauer shot the beautiful nighttime shot of Ron Fagan's Grand Champion P-40E. Thanks to Al for letting me post the shot.

Matching Cadets

Oshkosh has really kicked into high gear and a lot of pictures are hitting the forums and news sites. One article off of EAAs web site was a fun read. The Morris family completed the restoration of two Culver Cadets and they are on display at Oshkosh this year. Read the article here. To read the detail story of the restoration of one of the Cadets and view the series of pictures go to Taildragger Aviation. A few months back I received a picture from the Morris' of one of the Cadets airborne. Outstanding restoration of one of the little known vintage cruisers!

CAF P-51C Returns to the Skies

Happy to see the P-51C airborne again after its unfortunate accident a few years ago. MaxAir2Air has the photo essay here.

Another Spartan to the U.K.

NC17615 has been spotted in Greenland on its way to the U.K. So this makes two Spartan's that will be based far from their homeland. Hope to post a few pictures of it at its new home when I can round them up.

New Gallery on lightandlift.com

Scott Germain has posted his most recent Warbird photography on lightandlift.com. Highlights of the gallery are the formation of P-40s, the Grumman formation with two Bearcats and two Tigercats, and one shot of five Bearcats in flight! Check out the gallery here.

Flying Legends Saturday 2009

A few pictures have been posted from Saturday at Flying Legends. Click here to see the pics. The Fw190 pictures are worth checking out!

Flying Legends Early Arrival

This weekend over in Duxford, England is the annual Flying Legends Warbird show. The Plane Talk forum should be THE place to catch up on the latest pictures from the event. One of the early arrivals was the Fw190 from France. Check it out here! Who would have thought we would ever see the shape of a Fw-190 in the skies again!? Watch here for links to more highlights.

Amelia Movie Trailer

Being the Lockheed fan that I am I have been keeping up with the filming of the upcoming movie AMELIA. The movie trailer is now starting to make its rounds on the web... check it out... looks like some stunning film footage!

Jenny Flies!

A Curtiss Jenny has flown after its restoration by the crew at Grimes Airfield in PA. Pictures of the red beauty here.

July 4th Flying

About two weeks ago I had a crew from Detail Werks come out and help me catch up on my polishing. They did a professional job and the shine is the best it has been in years. I highly recommend these guys. If you have a polished airplane and you are in the DFW area. Give Brian a call and tell him Dan sent you.
July 4th my buddy Jay and I took to the skies. It was warm and bumpy but worth the flight. We also took some time to shoot some videos of the flying. Hope to release that video soon. The picture above was taken out in the sunshine so the new polish job can be seen at its best!