[MilCom] Interesting visitors to Nashville today

[Duane Mantick]

Just my two cents worth, it is NEVER a bad day when you can see and hear even ONE Mustang, let alone more !!!  The Mount Comfort airshow east of Indianapolis (which used to be the home show for the Indiana Wing of the Confederate Airforce which apparently went belly up and then CAF got some pressure to change it to "Commemorative Air Force" stupid political correctness) nearly always has several show up.   They are so slick, clean and maaahhvelous sounding that it isn't hard to imagine why this bird is often considered the best prop fighter built by anybody in WW2. They always seem more agile, manouverable and quick than about anything else.

Over the years I have every once in a while heard one passing through on the scanner, occasionlly with a radio call like "tower, this is Mustang November xxxx-whatever etc etc" which ALWAYS elicits a very warm welcome from the tower.

I'm hoping that Mt. Comfort/Indianapolis Airshow will do a "gathering of Mustangs" like they did their "gathering of Corsairs" a few years back. I think we had 7 Corsairs in the air at one time which was pretty good for Indiana (an aviation backwater, to be sure, these days).  My guess is that there are a LOT more Mustangs around and with a good showing could easily put 15 to 20 in the air.  THAT I would be willing to lug my full-size VHS camcorder, AKA "2-ton tessie", around for........

I did shoot some video on the corsairs.........why I haven't bothered to edit that and stick it up on YouTube or something I don't know.....

(CAF - I MISS FIFI !!!! When do I get my B-29 again?) (speaking of which, anybody know the status of "Doc"?  Flying yet?)

Duane
WB9OMC



--- On Wed, 6/25/08, Joe Cobb <gunslinger37217 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Joe Cobb <gunslinger37217 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [MilCom] Interesting visitors to Nashville today
> To: "Milcom" <Milcom at mailman.qth.net>, "Radio Monitors" <Radiomonitors at yahoogroups.com>, "NashvilleScan" <nashvillescan at yahoogroups.com>, "Civil Air Comms" <Civilaircomms at yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 11:13 PM
> Very few times does a warbird stop at Nashville (KBNA) for a
> fuel and go much less an overnight.  They usually stick with
> smaller grass roots airports.  These two stopped in and we
> got them in a hangar for an overnight. 
> 
> Callsign was simply MUSTANG "flight" and landed
> Nashville around 1745L from the east:
> 118.4>124.75>118.6 headed to Texas.
> 
> #1: P-51D, N63476 (USAAF serial: 44-63476) in Canadian
> colors and their designator as RAF Mk-4 (RAF serial: 9274)
> flown by Ed Shipley.
> 
> #2: P-51C, NL487FS (USAAF serial: 43-25147) in US colors,
> unsure of pilots name on this one.
> 
> Kind of a neat thing to see during an otherwise tedius dull
> day with all the usual bizjets and so forth.
> 
> Joe
> Nashville, Tn.
> 
> 
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