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Saturday, June
5, 2016:
It was the annual
Discover Aviation Days at the Anoka/Blaine,
Minnesota, airport.
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Lots of old propeller-driven
aircraft, many from
the World War II era. This is a
North American T-6 Texan trainer.
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A U.S. Army UH-1 Huey Helicopter
landed where red smoke marked the spot, much as they have done
for the past 50 years in war-torn parts of this world.
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A
Grumman OV-1 Mohawk
Surveillance aircraft in U.S. Army green war paint.
Put in the military inventory in 1959, the Mohawk was retired
just after serving in the first Gulf War in 1986. With two
1400 horse turbo-prop engines and 10 foot diameter propellers,
the Mohawk is highly maneuverable and served well in Europe,
Korea, and over the jungles of Viet Nam. With a pilot and
equipment operator, the Mohawk was used as a high-tech spy plane
using infra-red cameras and side looking airborne radar.
Mark was Sergeant in Charge
of an avionics (aviation electronics) repair shop in Viet Nam 1968 to
1969. He remembers them well.
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A 1941 Ryan PT-22 Trainer owned by the
American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum in Dallas, Texas.
Welcome to Minnesota.
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A 1941 Boeing
Stearman Model 75 bi-plane. America was in an age of
invention, innovation, and engineering back then.
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A Grumman Mallard flying boat
thrilled the crowd with a low pass over the field.
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These two re-enactor soldiers have an
attitude with a huge fragmentation hand-grenade and an M-14 rifle.
Nothing will stop them!
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Then there was this young guy
with a rocket propelled grenade. Imagine what he will be
when they grows up!
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The crew of Miss Mitchell, a
B-25 Bomber from WWII. This model plane was responsible
for
bombing Tokyo, Japan, shortly after
Pearl Harbor.
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These pilots have an attitude
too. They know what they are doing.
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The air show, with this
North American P-51 Mustang, named Sierra Sue II, kept the
crowd in awe.
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A fun show to go to. Mark
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