What a marvelous thread….so many memories brought back over 16 years of airshowing across the US….I remember the Thunderchickens pair sneaking up on us from behind and setting off almost every car in the carpark at one of our first airshows….then at Breckenridge TX one year seeing a couple of dots on the horizon getting closer and headed straight towards us at about 300 ft altitude….they turned out to be a Beech Baron on one side, a T-6 flown by one of our Colorado pilots David Fain on the other side, and in the middle….a B-17 called ‘Thunderbird’ making its first ever appearance at the Breckenridge show….got a pic of it somewhere….but the capper has to be….
It was about 1976 and I had just run away from home again, and my social worker was bringing me back to the house…she parked across the street and we were getting out of the car when I looked towards the house (to the east) and there, coming towards us, was a HUGE formation of WWII planes the likes of which I had never seen, being led by a B-17 (‘Journey’ or ‘Raiders’, I don’t know which)…I remember T-6’s, a Corsair, and a bunch of others, about 12 in all, and they flew RIGHT over me and my social worker and off to the west….it seems the CAF were in town for an airshow and the planes were out and about to drum up attention to the show and we just happened to be lucky enuf to be right in their flight path…..it left QUITE an impression on a then 12 year old me…
Mark
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