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| P-39 Aircobra in Soviet markings. The engine on this airplane is behind the cockpit. | ||||||
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A big British Sea Fury.
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| A British Lysander. | ||||||
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Ugliest plane award winner. Also known as the flying rowboat.
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| A German World War I Eindecker replica. I've always liked this plane; I think it would be so cool to show up at a fly-in in one. | ||||||
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| Another nice looking World War I replica. | ||||||
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| The star of the show. Not me, the P-38, Glacier Girl. This is the P-38 they dug out of the ice up in Greenland. Took them ten years I think to dig it up and another ten years to restore it. Cost $20 million. But I must say, they did a fantastic job on it. It's magnificent. | ||||||
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Another view.
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| Scott Hinton is the only one who is allowed to fly it, but he really flew it aggressively at Sun 'N Fun. Again, it was the star of the show. | ||||||
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One of my favorite warbirds, the A-10 Warthog. Unfortunately, they
didn't fly a routine in the airshow with it.
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| An L-39 jet. You see quite a few of these around these days. It burns one to two gallons of fuel a minute, so it's gonna cost you to fly it, though. | ||||||
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| The big iron, including an F-4 Phanton. I didn't think any of those were still flying but here it was. | ||||||
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| A Bunker Jungmeister. | ||||||
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| A Corben Baby Ace! Much nicer than ours. | ||||||
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| The queen of the homebuilts: a Lancair. Looks fast, and it is fast. Behind it is an RV that bent his metal prop leaning on his brakes while taxiing. Major bummer. | ||||||
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