here are few pics from the Cleveland national Airshow on sunday. I only uploaded a dozen of the 120 pics I took. I thought these were interesting. Also if anyone know ID of the aircraft in the first 2 pics that would save me from having to look it up later.
Anyone anyone bueller? Cool paint work. a trainer from the looks of it?
B-17G
P-51D
F4U-5N
F-18F Superhornet. May have to build one of these.
hercules in invasion stripes
The blues
P-51D, F-16?, F-15E
If you want to see more of something let me know. I have pics of 2 other heavy lifters, Osprey with what I though was a odd paint color and a A-10.
Czechoslovakian, L-29 Delphin. Used throughout the Warsaw Pac for a basic pilot trainer. Quite a few have been imported into the US as privately owned warbirds.
Thanks yardbird, your knowledge is much appreciated, That is a russian trainer. I was thinking is was a american job with some russian marking added. this is normally the case. I knew it wasn’t a texan II no prop. I can tell you it’s fast and looks like it handles very well.
Wayne baker, it’s anothers stan! here I thought I was special[:D] I didn’t get inside of it but I did get 8 shots of the exterior. Some are more weathering/detail reference photos. Did you catch t he color it was painted? It looked like some sort of matallic gray/blue. I’ve never seen this an a miltary aircraft before. What do you guys think? The pics here are reduced to 1024/786, if you like the full size file shot me a PM and I’ll send them too you.
Here’s a pic in the sun light, you kinda get an idea of the color. right rear quarter
Darwin you are correct on the L-29. Stan one correction the F-18 is not an E it is a C. In the first picture. Look at the intakes they are circular. The E and F have rectangular intakes. Like the second picture. JOHN
I do this from time to time just to see who’s looking and who really looking. I also cheated on this one. The 18 in flight is a F BUT the 2 display 18’s are C’s. You are correct. here’s the proof. The big give away should be ONE seat. An F has 2 seats. Second the superhorents are considerable larger (25% ,mostly due to added fuel for range) this differance is noticeable with people are standing near one on the ground. Third the intake a round and much smaller then the square F-15 style intakes found on the E/F variantes. Finally the smaller wing stakes should also have given a clue to the varianet type of this F-18. I would have though that someone would have caught the seat missing before the intakes.
Note the intakes and stakes.
stenciled right on it C.
F-18F on the ground for comparsion.
Good eye john. About 80 others look at it before you and didn’t catch this.
