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new2hpr
Whoops, wrong bird.
Warren B. Musselman
I remember seeing a documentary about 20 years ago about the end of WWII and they had a whole bunch of film of bulldozers pushing dozens and hundreds of P51’s, B24’s, B17’s, P47’s, etc. into huge piles in England and dousing them with gasoline and just burning ’em up.
I do remember back in the 60’s when I was a kid there were several refurbed warbirds – a P-51 and a P-47 – located at a little strip near my home in central NJ. I always assumed there were a lot more of them left flying because at the end of WWII quite a few were sold off in demilitarized condition to private pilots.
Warren
Art Hoag
It is a shame! That sort of thing still happens today. Though they are not being piled up and burned, mass amounts of F-117 Stealth Fighters are being chopped up and condensed. An F-117 pilot who goes by “Ghost” told this to me.
Art
Rocketwhiz
I vaguely remember seeing something on Discovery channel. The reason planes were scrapped at the end of the war.
The manufactures cut a deal with the government. To cut costs for production, they could purchase back the aluminum at a discount once the planes weren’t needed. Eventually some were sold to private citizens for as little as $2,500.00. What a deal Huh!!
JetMechQC
Art Hoag
One of those look like a P51 D model.
Art
JetMechQC
There were 2 P51D’s and 1 P51B
John
Great photos! It would be nice if the Fort Collins/Loveland airport would host the airshow every year. I can’t remember how long ago the last one was (5-6 years?). That was always one of the perks of being Army Airborne…we participated in a lot of the major national airshows and of course we always held the big tactical demonstrations at Fort Bragg that were open to the public. I miss getting that close to the amazing aircraft. While I wouldn’t trade the Colorado lifestyle to get it, it would be nice to have a few of the amenities that the more densely populated areas get at times. I’ll have to do some digging but while I was growing up in Lake Tahoe the Blue Angels would practice regularly over the lake and I have lots of pics of them as well as the other shows I was at if anyone is interested.
John
Ed Dawson
John,
Don’t forget that the Thunderbirds visit the Cheyenne airshow. I’ve taken the kids and they had a great time. (me too.)
John
Thanks for the info. I didn’t realize they had an airshow in Cheyenne.
John
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Warren B. Musselman
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