Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend: Picture 7
“OK,hook ‘er up and we’ll tow you to the active.” Cavalry re-enactors get someexercise in front of the B-17 parking area. Back tothumbnails
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Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend: Picture 6
Nobodyrides this guy’s bumper. View of tail gunner position on B-17G “YankeeLady” belonging to the Yankee Air Museum in Michigan. Back tothumbnails
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend: Picture 5
B-17G”Fuddy Duddy” from the National Warplane Museum in New York taxis toparking. Back tothumbnails
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend: Picture 4
MAAMDouglas R4D in a “WWII maintenance corral.” Back tothumbnails
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend: Picture 3
RoyChaffin (L) and Bill Rambow (R) were letting visitors fly their R4D flightsimulator. Chaffin, Rambow and Jan Vissor put in over 5,000 man-hours developingthe realistic sim of the MAAM’s Douglas R4D, which can be used with MS FlightSimulator 98 or 2000. Freedownloads are available. Back tothumbnails
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend: Picture 2
MidAtlantic Air Museum’s N3N-3 primary Navy trainer built at the Naval AircraftFactory in Philadelphia, Pa. Back tothumbnails
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend: Picture 1
A rare Navy SBD-5 DouglasDauntless dive bomber belonging to the Dixie wing of the Confederate Air Force. Back tothumbnails
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s WWII Weekend
Though Friday was hot and humid, thunderstorms rumbled through the area on Friday evening to clear out the sky for the rest of the weekend events. If taking a ride in a B-17, watching a P-51 strafe the field, or buying WWII collectibles in the flee market wasn’t enough to satisfy your WWII appetite, then […]
Eye of Experience #28:
The Evolution of Flight Training
Flight training has been consistently running 10 to20 years behind the state of the art. A prime example of this is the way I wastrained in the early 1940s. Aircraft engines produced back in the early 1930s(and before) were so undependable that every time one took off you could toss acoin as to whether or […]
Paul Soderlind
Check out AVweb’s “Airmanship” section, where Paul offersan article about deadly spiralsthat could save your life. Paul A. Soderlind was born August6, 1923, in Billings, Mont. He took his first flight lesson at age 12, earnedhis private certificate on his 18th birthday (which was then the CAA minimumage), and earned his Commercial and Instructor ratings […]
