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Another Missing Aircraft mystery from long ago...

The story of the "Lady Be Good"

http://www.ladybegood.net/

Blue Angels 2014 Schedule - http://www.blueangels.navy.mil../

Thunderbirds Airshow Schedule - http://afthunderbirds.com/site../

Locally, 3 dates - Ft. Dix, Ocean City & Atlantic City!!!

Believe it or not June is on the way. Not that the past few weeks have done anything to support that theory. The WWII weekend is coming up in Reading, Pa. and I plan on attending this years show. Very interested in seeing how the P-61 Black Widow renovation is progressing as well as all the great aircraft on display. See the link for current show information.

http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.h..

Coming up on Friday August 17th, Thunder on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ! See info and details here:
http://www.atlanticcitynj.com/..

I created a PhotoBucket site so we can share photos and videos.

http://s1049.photobucket.com/a../

I will send a password to anyone who wishes to post.

I've loved vintage planes ever since I was a young'n. Read everything I could about them, and was fortunate enough to live in a town that brought several of them in for the annual airshow.

To me, there is no more gorgeous plane on planet earth than a P-51D...except for maybe a Spitfire Mark V. I've stood behind the roaring engines of a B-17 (Sentimental Journey) as it warmed up on the tarmac...cinders hitting me in the face, almost couldn't stand up straight from the brute force of the wind coming off those Wright Cyclones. The LOUDEST thing I ever heard (louder than afterburners, yep...) was a F-4U Corsair buzzing 10 feet off the runway at over 250 mph. Un-freaking-real.

Though I am more interested in the rotary aircraft, I do enjoy the sound of a C130 or C17 as it takes off or as I am exiting the the ramp at 1200ft with a chute on my back.

Shame we can't post pics directly to this. I work at the Oceanna Airshow in Virginia Beach Virginia as a sponsor every year.

High Flight

by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew.
And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space...
...put out my hand, and touched the face of God.