Last Flight

A well written and moving tale. Not to bring anyone down, but unfortunately these reunions will become more and more rare…..it will be a great loss to the warbird community and to historic aviation in general.

What a heartfelt and moving story thanks for sharing!

that was a truly amazing story, it brought a tear to my eye

Here’s to the Indiana group, and the two or three other groups who have tried to give the Lockheed mediums their due. Again, magnificent.

S.

Here’s a link to a recent post on WIX…a photo intensive look at a former air tanker PV-2 being flown again after being abandoned at a small airstrip.
Great news and thank goodness the warbird community has guys like these that get out and do what the rest of us just talk about.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=38160&start=0

Fantastic and very moving!

🙂 Great stuff

Very moving

Wonderful story, quite superb.

Magnificent.

This story appears to take place at one of the three National Warplane Museum “Wings Of Eagles” airshows that were held at Genesee County Airport, Batavia, New York…specifically either 1995 or 1996, as it was one of those years the (then) Confederate Air Force A6M-2 Zero attended. Those three shows were the best Warbird events I ever witnessed, and I’ve witnessed a good few! PV-2 “Hot Stuff” from Indiana was a fixture at Batavia and at the preceding big NWM Geneseo shows.

Noted, too, in this beautiful story is the fact that the PVs have not received their due; even the veteran in the story believes no PV survives…until he sees “Hot Stuff” proudly parked at Batavia. Here’s to the Indiana group, and the two or three other groups who have tried to give the Lockheed mediums their due. This crew’s encounter with this veteran must have been such a wonderful reward for keeping a “what the heck is that” warbird flying…

Again, magnificent.

S.

Good on ’em!

I cried reading that story. I’m lost for words…

Wow