Just saw a very rare treat in the sky!

[Jim_Barton]

I had a similar experience last year when I was doing some yard work at a monastery in town. It sounded like a thunderstorm, but the skies were clear…I look up and here comes a B-17! Aluminum Overcast had made a visit to the Wausau, WI, and I live in the nearby town of Marathon. I caught the aircraft on its return flight or wherever it was going next, but it was awesome as it was flying pretty low

Aluminum Overcast was here in Phoenix a few weeks ago, at Deer Valley Airport.

[redraider56]

redraider56:

I had a similar experience last year when I was doing some yard work at a monastery in town. It sounded like a thunderstorm, but the skies were clear…I look up and here comes a B-17! Aluminum Overcast had made a visit to the Wausau, WI, and I live in the nearby town of Marathon. I caught the aircraft on its return flight or wherever it was going next, but it was awesome as it was flying pretty low

Aluminum Overcast was here in Phoenix a few weeks ago, at Deer Valley Airport.

Yup, she travels all over the US. I had a chance to tour her while I lived in Michigan. She is the restored B-17 of the EAA in Oshkosh, WI and tours the whole US every year

[MikeV]

Jim Barton:

redraider56:

I had a similar experience last year when I was doing some yard work at a monastery in town. It sounded like a thunderstorm, but the skies were clear…I look up and here comes a B-17! Aluminum Overcast had made a visit to the Wausau, WI, and I live in the nearby town of Marathon. I caught the aircraft on its return flight or wherever it was going next, but it was awesome as it was flying pretty low

Aluminum Overcast was here in Phoenix a few weeks ago, at Deer Valley Airport.

Yup, she travels all over the US. I had a chance to tour her while I lived in Michigan. She is the restored B-17 of the EAA in Oshkosh, WI and tours the whole US every year

I have some pictures of her when she was here.

[jtilley]

The closest I’ve come to an experience like this was twenty-plus years ago, when I was living in Newport News, Virginia. That’s a few minutes’ flying time from Langley Air Force Base. The base had contracted with a private firm that operated three or four well-maintained antique jets as target tugs. One day on the way home from lunch I heard a loud noise overhead, looked up, and saw an immaculate, white-painted F-86 Sabre flying in close formation with an F-15. Of course I didn’t have my camera.

[personman906]

WHOAH!!! The P-40 is a great plane…that’s my third-favorite WWII plane, just behind the PBY-5A Catalina (my FAVORITE) and the F4U Corsair. That’s crazy that you actually saw one…

Can you help me with my modeling decision? Just look at my posts!

[mic53mlb]

BLESS YOU BlackWolf3945 !!! Those are the best pics I’ve ever seen of these aircraft !!! My grandfather was in the Army Air Corps and I’ve seen a lot of unbelievable pictures in the past of WW II aircraft but never as crisp and clear as these, they look like they were taken yestaerday !!! I’m a P-40 nut, I know these are either B or C versions, god these are beautiful !!! By the way just for the WIP or those reading, the only Merlin engined P-40s were the F and L models (difference betwen the two was the F model was basically an D/E model and spec except for the cowling area, you didn’t have the upper intake snorkel and the L model just about the same except the tail boom was longer). If you ask me I’d take the P-40E all day long but the F/L models, with the more streamlined cowling area, looked prettier !!!

[BruceM]

Well it took forever but I found the images I took at Beverly airport. Here’s the B-17 and Yak 9 two- seater.

[jason18]

This was pretty awesome. I was in Duluth, MN and was outside the harbor bridge watching a big cargo ship go under it. Then two F-16s from the fighter wing based a few miles outside the city roared overhead. That was great.