Sunday, April 4, 2010

Planes of Fame and the P-38 Lightning.


There are only 7 P-38s remaining in flying condition. Here were two of them. These pics are of 23 Skiddoo, the plane owned and flown by the Planes of Fame museum. Last year the P-38 recovered from the icy North and christened Glacier Girl was one of the group leaving three out of seven flying P-38s over the skies of Chino. It was heartwarming to see eight veteran P-38 pilots still alive at ages up to 80. These guys were all just a bunch of farm boys before being trained as pilots and sent off to free the world of evil. It was like an EAA Chapter One meeting on steroids!
P-38s are proof that we're all on this flight together.

Dick

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