For those of us that love the old warbirds......

This video has most of them, in flight, together.....

Legends 2014

http://player.vimeo.com/video/93587997

Warning: I was listening to Jethro Tull on phones when I clicked on this video. It starts off with what sounds like an explosion that may have been a record no. of decibels for me. Yikes!

Anyway I wish this had been an hr. long. Great video.

Yea, it does have a climatic entrance.....

Clearly a European show based on all the Spits (not to mention the Bristol Fighters), and the Redbull planes. The Fw190 is a bit curious to me. I did not know there was one flying in Europe. I know there is a replica in the US and an actual (original engined) one in WA.

aircooled wrote: Clearly a European show based on all the Spits (not to mention the Bristol Fighters), and the Redbull planes. The Fw190 is a bit curious to me. I did not know there was one flying in Europe. I know there is a replica in the US and an actual (original engined) one in WA.

That would be a welcome surprise after years and years of P-40, P51 and T6 trainers we have had at airshows for decades.

In reply to aircooled:

That would be a Flugwerk FW-190. There are no flying originals that I know of. I've seen the US one. It is sinister.

Cool video. That would be something to see so many of them in the air at the same time.

That is very cool, and of course it is in England.

Appleseed wrote: In reply to aircooled: That would be a Flugwerk FW-190. There are no flying originals that I know of. I've seen the US one. It is sinister.

OK. Yes, there is another Flugwerk in Chino CA that I have seen fly.

There IS a flying A model in Washington though (I think it's Balmers collection):

The only flying one with the original engine apparently.

Very interesting collection BTW: http://www.flyingheritage.com/TemplatePlane.aspx?contentId=16

Includes an FW-190D that is could be flyable, but they don't want to because it is so rare:

In reply to aircooled:

Ahh, the FW-190, it was the reason so many of our P47's were mistaken for enemies.

I'd love to see a flyable ME-262 as well.

Man, I still have a soft spot for 190s.

yamaha wrote: In reply to aircooled: Ahh, the FW-190, it was the reason so many of our P47's were mistaken for enemies. I'd love to see a flyable ME-262 as well.

The Collings Foundation was offering flights in a Swallow as recently as 2012; mucho cash and specific training required.

http://www.collingsfoundation.org/ma_me262.htm

Reminding me that if I ever got rich, It would all go into flying.

Nothing matches the sound of a '51 at max cruise.

Sound wasn't working for me, which is 50% of the cool factor for warbirds. We used to have a killer airshow in Kalamazoo when I was a kid, with warbird numbers that approached this gathering. Sadly, the military support sort of withered and the rest of the show folded. My dad has some really cool old slides (anyone remember those?) of some of the flybys.

WWII warbirds were my first love, waaaay before cars. Loved this video, would love to see that gathering in person.

That was badass, I missed the last airshow here because I was in Long Beach for the race and they usually have the heritage flight with a P-51 and sometimes a P-38. I would love to see a 190 or some of those bi planes in action though.

My yearly fix will come next week at Oshkosh.

If I ever had berkeley you money, I'd have a small collection of a P-38, P-40, and P-51......oddly enough, you could buy 5 p51's for what a 38 would cost(if not more)

Supply and demand. Why else would you dig 200+ feet into a glacier to get this out?

Very true, another trip to the glacier might be the only way......unfortunately it hasn't melted completely yet.

That's pretty cool. The WWI stuff is just astonishing in it's primitiveness. Hard to imagine riding into battle in a Sopwith Camel.

Dat Corsair noise...

In reply to KyAllroad:

It was even harder back then.....

KyAllroad wrote: That's pretty cool. The WWI stuff is just astonishing in it's primitiveness. Hard to imagine riding into battle in a Sopwith Camel.

It's especially astonishing when you consider that about 25 years separated the two groups of aircraft. That's like going from a Model T to a Ferrari Dino in 25 years of development.