Bernie Zack
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 214
- Location
- Sin City
Convair B-58 Hustler.
Lancaster bomber... Lots of people love Spitfires as you can't beat the sound of a Merlin engine, but the lanc has four This is Just Jane, she lives at East Kirkby airfield in Lincolnshire and I took this shot this afternoon. Just Jane taxis at the moment but has just taken delivery of some beautiful new engines and it is the hope that she will fly again someday soon.
I was in VMA 214 (The Blacksheep) in the 1980's when I was stationed at MCAS El Toro. We where flying A4M's at the time until we transitioned to Harriers in the mid to late 80's. The F4U Corsair of WWII that VMA 214 flew then is one of my favorite aircraft.
It is entirely possible that I was unduly influenced in my youth by certain TV show
Ahh how a young girl's fancies could turn towards thoughts of handsome... planes.
The Blue Angels were much better when they flew A4s! The show was much tighter, and more personal.Santa Ana, April 20, 2011
Great choices. I met a guy once who had been in the Army Air Corps in 1923 and 24, flying old WW I Camels. He said the rotary engines were really deadly. He saw more than one pilot bank too sharply and get into an uncontrolled spin and crash.