This version from the same day seems to show up more.

History it is not, entertainment it is.

My first thought was it was the script of the old John Wayne movie “Flying Tigers” updated to the Red Tails.

Wartime propaganda bad guy types, a buddy picture with one being the guy who just can’t seem to follow the rules, a love story that serves no real purpose etc.

Very little blood and gore considering 30mm cannons were involved in body shots.

I watched it with my little guy on pay per view and he loved it like my oldest son loved Top Gun. It was airplanes and that’s all that mattered to him.

As for the history, I’ll teach my youngest son that part 🙂

Peterson was about a nice a guy as you could ever meet. He flew a private plane out of the airport where I took flying lessons as a teenager back in the 70’s.

To a wannabe WW2 fighter pilot, who thought the Piper he was flying was a P51, it got no better then the day I found myself in the pattern number 2 to Mr. Peterson for landing. Not every day you are coming in behind a 51 Ace 🙂

One of the constants of warbird forums seems to be a core group of folks who on one hand ask for info on new projects and discoveries, and then when that kind of info is posted, they turn around and bash it or find fault.

Let’s face it. We’re all a bunch of ‘dreamers’ in many ways, with our fascination being WW2 aviation.

I’d rather support the dreams, then tear them down. If even 1/4th of the ‘dreams’ come to fruition, it’s still more then we had before hand.

I wish them all the luck and success in the world to make this particular “dream’ get into the air.

Just like the desert P40, the buried Spits, and any of the other ‘dreams” out there.

My only regret is not being in a position to chase one of those dreams myself.

I just wish owners would stop polishing bare aluminium to a mirror finish.

Not nearly as silly as artificially weathering them to look combat worn, since they aren’t flying combat.

Most of us don’t pour mud our cars so they look used. More likely to wash and polish 🙂

It’s probably also due to a number of brave, 20-year-old pilots with two years total flying experience from first solo, maybe 500 hours logged, flying airplanes that today take some pretty seasoned experts to fly safely. If you are a pilot, try to remember what you were like as a kid with a couple of years in the air under your belt.

I have the logs of a 21st FG P51 Pilot. He arrived on Iwo with 472 total hours logged when he flew his first operational mission. Nice guess on times! 🙂

It’s interesting to compare the hours an RAF or USAAF pilot had early in the war when they first went into combat and those at the end. Things sure changed.

I have the logbook of a Canadian Spitfire pilot and he flew his first operational mission in Late December 41 with a total of 215 hours flying time.

I’d imagine those numbers were the exact opposite for Axis pilots with the higher numbers being early and few hours being later in the war.

So corgi got it wrong :diablo:

Sending yours back are you? 😉

I think I’ll keep mine. It looks pretty good to me 🙂