Congrats Steve! I’ve always been partial to the RAN colors myself, maybe because the first Sea Fury I ever saw was Elsworth Getchell’s WH587. Hopefully either the CAF or WOTN will arrange to bring you up to MN, it’s been far too long sinch we’ve had a Sea Fury at a show up here.

And a couple more from Biggin Hill, 16-6-91,

N909WJ and the man himself. Does anyone have the Bu?

Geoff.

The FAA shows 16203, which is consistent with an FM-2 BuNo.

” Lovely bird the Seafire blue sir, lovely plumage” , “is she OK sir , of course shes OK” ” Shes just pining for the Fjords”

If you’re younger than 40 you’ll probably think me mad, nothing like a bit of MP’sFC.

Not at all. I’m only slightly over halfway to 40(and to top it off, American), and I don’t think you mad. I even got a laugh out of it.

Is that Mowhawk by any chance 64-14262/N134RV from the American Wings Air Museum?

Railway Carrige? You must mean the Sikorsky S-38 amphib reproduction.

I like the wall of fire shot. It looks great on film, and is very impressive in person.

Bob Pond’s B-17 is indeed in California, at the Palm Springs Air Museum. The last time I heard, Evergreen’s Fort had not yet complied with the wing spar AD and was grounded accordingly, I’d be quite happy to be wrong about that. As for the Museum of Flying’s B-17F, I gather that it is unfortunately very unlikely that it will ever take to the skies again.

In California there are also static B-17’s at Castle AFB, March AFB, AMVETS chapter 56 in Tulare. CA seems to have the greatest number of B-17s, but keep in mind that California is a big state, so the distances between these bombers may be quite large.

Here’s another. This is the nose Lycoming R-680 on Greg Herrick’s 1931 Stinson SM-6000-B Tri-Motor. According to the Fantasy of Flight site, Greg Herrick’s and Kermit Weeks’ are the only two high wing Stinson Tri-motors left.

It’s hard to beat an engine you can actually see.

Gnome Omega S/N 755

It used to be much more open, but they recently added a cowling from the 1911 Steco Aerohydroplane