Vintage War Planes over Charlottesville?

Posted by Thor on March 12th, 2008 17 Comments

A birdie sends this in…

Did anyone at cvillain just see the two vintage fighter planes fly over town?

I couldn’t get a very good picture, unfortunately.

Dogfights anyone?

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17 Responses to “Vintage War Planes over Charlottesville?”

  1. 12 Mar 2008 at 2:47 pm
    1 Street said:

    Dogfights anyone?

    Ala Michael Vick?

    *crawls under rock*

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  2. 12 Mar 2008 at 2:54 pm
    2 belmont yo said:

    Stukas over Disneyland?

    Unpossible.

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  3. 12 Mar 2008 at 3:25 pm
    3 trillian said:

    mc, where are you? Tracking down the fighter-pilots?

    /Didn’t see them, but my grandfather flew Corsairs off aircraft carriers, so I have a bizarrely warm and fuzzy reaction to fighter planes.

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  4. 12 Mar 2008 at 3:33 pm
    4 oy said:

    I heard (during a meeting) what sounded like it might have been an AT-6 – linkypoo – but it’s been a long time since I heard one in person. If the plane I heard was the plane in question, I don’t think it was a true “warbird” – didn’t sound like a Merlin or any of the larger engines, plus it was turning tight circles over the downtownish area so it was probably a smaller plane (biplane?).

    /aviation history major
    //worships trillian’s grandfather

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  5. 12 Mar 2008 at 3:34 pm
    5 oy said:

    if you can send in/post those pics, I might be able to make an ID.

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  6. 12 Mar 2008 at 3:39 pm
    6 belmont yo said:

    if you can send in those pics, I might unleash my id.

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  7. 12 Mar 2008 at 3:44 pm
    7 mc said:

    dude, I wish I was tracking down fighter pilots…

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  8. 12 Mar 2008 at 3:46 pm
    8 Silmo Syrup said:

    Yah. We know all about that, MC

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  9. 12 Mar 2008 at 4:34 pm
    9 josh said:

    Was one of them bright red? I haven’t seen it for a while, but I believe one (insanely wealthy?) Charlottesvillian owns a Mig 17 (picture). He used to fly around in formation with a T-38.

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  10. 12 Mar 2008 at 4:36 pm
    10 handrail said:

    @4

    oy,

    i’m pretty certain it was a P-40. sorry, the one pic i managed to snap is completely worthless…it looks like a speck of dust in the sky.

    but the planes both had the famous flying tigers teeth paint and the canopies looked similar to the wiki link pic i posted on my blog. i only saw them for a total of about 1 minute as they circled and flew off into the horizon.

    any idea if there is an air show up north somewhere this week? my searches returned zilch in the VA area.

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  11. 12 Mar 2008 at 4:43 pm
    11 ThatGrrl said:

    Hmmm. The schedule doesn’t begin until later this spring, but this is located somewhat nearby: http://www.flyingcircusairshow.com/

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  12. 12 Mar 2008 at 4:51 pm
    12 oy said:

    I’ll check for sure, but I think there are only a couple of flying P40’s currently, one is in WA (and doesn’t, I believe, have the sharks teeth).

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  13. 12 Mar 2008 at 5:03 pm
    13 handrail said:

    they looked a lot like the on in this vid:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KIHLZ0465E

    i don’t remember any roundels or other markings but i could be wrong on that details as i was too excited and was scrambling for the binoculars.

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  14. 12 Mar 2008 at 5:05 pm
    14 handrail said:

    geez…pardon the poor typing ^

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  15. 12 Mar 2008 at 5:11 pm
    15 Stanley said:

    Handrail: Howdy! Thanks for the info. By the by, why the UK domain? Are you a local ex-pat?

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  17. 17 Mar 2008 at 12:19 pm
    17 shenanigans said:

    dammit. no latin translating tool on google!

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