We are near the airport, in Fulton, Texas, and so we get a lot of airplanes flying over. The local newspaper had reported that the air show, War Birds over South Texas was on for three days and we started to see biplanes, several bombers including a B25, and many other vintage planes. S
ome were quiet but the sound of the B25 shook the ground as it thundered over us!
Saturday morning Renita and I went to the airport to take pictures of the many different planes, most being flown and maintained by the Commemorative Air Force, (formerly the Confederate Air Force). My main interest was in the plane Named the Southern Cross.
It is a WWII C47 that was one of the pathfinder planes that led the 101st Airborne to Normandy on D Day.
Another plane one named the Devil Dog, a B25 bomber flew by the Marines on raids against Japanese shipping, and a Dauntless SBD Dive bomber.
There were so many planes and so much history, including Chuck Yagers P51 Mustang, which was painted with thirteen kills.
We loved the colors of the five Biplanes and at one point the air show conducted a mass fly out where plane after plane took off. The last planes to take off were four of them. It helped me to picture what must have been like to see a flight of biplanes leaving their base during World War 1.
Rides were available in many of the planes, a Navy Transport advertized fly like an admiral and cost seven hundred and fifty for a family of five.
While I probably would have enjoyed it, the sound inside the airplanes probably would have finished off whatever hearing I still have left. We also have a rule that we should not fly in a plane that is older than we are!
This is the second Fly in we have seen here in South Texas and definitely the the most historic Warbirds. It fit in well with our previous post of Sea Wolf Park! Clear skies
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