On the short drive home, I got a text from my son about an accident that just happened at an airshow in Dallas, TX. This one was no exception even though I stayed for only a couple of hours. I always enjoy seeing vintage aircraft and aerial performances at airshows. It is a tad more powerful than the Cessna 172 I flew when I was a member of the Indianapolis Senior Squadron. This plane is flown by the CAP senior squadron in Concord, NC. Last but not least, I was pleased to find that the airshow included a Civil Air Patrol Cessna 182. Rides in a Vietnam War vintage Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed “ Huey“) were offered for $110. The Velocity Elite RG is a homebuilt aircraft. The fuselage sits at a steep angle on the ground. The red and green lights at the top were used to signal airborne troops when it was time to jump. The guide onboard said this aircraft was built in 1944 and that C-46s were flown from the factory to military bases by female pilots. It is one of only two airworthy C-46s in the United States. Spectators were able to tour its C-46F Commando Tinker Belle. The Warriors and Warbirds Museum is based at EQY. The propeller wrecked the car and the plane. The engine started, and the plane taxied (the brakes weren’t set) into his car which was parked on the ramp nearby. I knew a pilot who didn’t take simple safety precautions once when he hand propped his little Cessna. Unless proper precautions are taken, it can actually start the engine. Manually turning the propeller pumps oil into the engine and facilitates starting. The man in the photo below is slowly hand propping a Gruman F6F Hellcat WWII U.S. AD-4 Skyraider of USN Attack Squadron 195. aircraft carrier (tailhook and folding wings) during the Korean War. This AD-4 Skyraider was flown from a U.S. The lady in the photo above may be her replacement. This is a video of a wing walker, Ashley Battles, performing at the air show in 2013. Is the number 68 or 89?Ī lady who may have been a wing walker was dressed in a Wonder Woman costume. This Pitts Special must do a lot of flying inverted. The flight lines for aircraft that were performing were roped off, but Spectators had reasonably good views of them as they sat on the ramp. I took the short videos below of portions of an aerobatic routine in a high-wing civilian aircraft. Dickson simulated bombing and strafing runs in his P-51, Swamp Fox. fighters of WWII and are very popular at airshows. Various military and civilian aircraft performed flybys and aerobatic routines. Aerial performances occurred over the runway which was setback a few hundred feet from the runway. Spectators viewed the performances from the viewing area that ran parallel to the runway. It has a single 7,000 ft (2,134m) runway. I decided to check it out for a couple of hours last Saturday afternoon.ĮQY is a public airport used primarily by private single-engine propeller planes but also multi-engine aircraft, corporate and private jets, and helicopters. The airport is about a 20-minute drive from my house. I very much enjoy airshows but hadn’t been to one in more than 10 years. Other than the Covid years, the airshow has been an held annually since 2005 as a celebration of Veterans Day. It featured aircraft from the World War II era and beyond and civilian aircraft in aerial performances and on static display. The 2022 Warbirds Over Monroe Air Show was held November 12 & 13 at the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport (EQY) in Monroe, North Carolina.
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