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Gathering of Corsairs

Posted by Chuck Gardner on Fri Sep 06, 2002 10:53:07 PM

Today was the official "Gathering of Corsairs" day. No more Corsairs flew in today so the current number still stands at 7. There were many WW2 Corsair pilots, aces, and hero's walking about the ramp and watching todays aerial activities. I talked with many of the warbird pilots and they were all glad to be apart of the event to honor the veterans. It was a hot day at 90 degrees but very clear skies. The Gathering now becomes the Indianapolis Airshow for the next two days. A good number of other warbirds flew in today. It is possible to have more fly in tomorrow morning. Here is the list as of this evening:
TBM
TBM Ida Red
P47 Hun Hunter
C-123 (Air Heritage)
A-26
B-17 Sentimental Journey
P-51 Moonbeam (Vlado Lenoch)
P-51 Lil Margaret (Butch Shreoder)
P-51 (Tom Woods)
P-51 Shangrila (Charles Osborn)
P-51 (Nathan Davis)
B-25 Bettys Dream
7 Corsairs
10 T-6s
2 BT-13s
Skyraider (Walt Newton)
Skyraider (Danny summers)
4 Harriers
2 F-18s
2 A-10s
The weather will be good for the show this weekend and I look forward to seeing all of the magnificient airplanes fly.


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