Blaine Aviation Weekend pics

The mean end of a B-25:




Another B-25, the "Miss Mitchell" (they had 3 there total):




A P-38, the "Tuff Enuff":




A Stinson tri-motor airliner, I think it was a C-3 model. Seats 9 people:



My finger :-) :



A flight of T-6 training planes in formation:



P-38 in flight:


P-38 in flight again:





It was a good day. Got to wear shorts and sandals for the first time! :woohoo:

I took my dad to see the MIss MItchell when it was being fixed up. He was a navigator and bombardier on a B25 during WWII.

Going up against the German air defenses must have been fun!

looks like it was a good time.

What else was out there?

One was a Ford Trimotor, the rest were from the other company who's name I can't remember right now. Plus a about a half-dozen other historic planes from the late '20s and '30s. One I swear looked like a big model airplane, but it was an actual one-seater real plane.

There were a bunch of T-6 trainers, a T-28(?) and a T-34(?) trainer, the latter of which was a Navy plane and had a tailhook on the back. There were four or five World War Two-era scout planes, tiny two-seaters about as wide as a canoe.

Three biplanes, one of the helicopters that TC from "Magnum, PI" flew, I can't remember the name right now. A WW2-era Yak-52 training plane from the Soviet Union that moved along pretty darn quick. And a lot of people just had flown in there for the day, so there were a lot of small private planes littering the area.

A couple of veterans from the 8th Air Force (the one that bombed Germany) gave a lecture but with the kid running around there was no way I was able to attend.

One guy had a little helicopter and was selling ride, and somebody with a biplane was as well.

It was pretty crowded.

Here's a pic of the Yak:



And that Navy training plane, I think it was called the T-34:

I wish I had been able to make it...

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/avoffice/events/fly-ins.html


http://www.wotn.org/AirExpo_Home.htm


And the Duluth Air Show is in July, and I think either the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds will be there this year.

http://www.duluthairshow.com/