Boeing Steerman Mosquito WW2 heroes

[Royzee617]

A snippet from local TV about WW2 flyers and their beloved Steerman.

 

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Never a truer word spoken

 

[Aggie08]

I recently went to the Cavauagh Flight Museum in Addison TX, they have a "resident" steerman that I got to hear fire up and do a run. My friend lives next to the guy that built it- I'll get the pictures up one of these days.

 

[evangilder]

Here is one that usually shows up at our air show every year. It's a great bird.

We have another Stearman that comes in from Santa Paula regularly. That one has a pilot that has 20,000 hours in that very plane! You should see that guy fly. That one is all yellow.

 

[Wildcat]

Here are some pics Ive taken of Stearman's in Oz. Both are painted in a similar scheme.

 

[evangilder]

Nice! I always liked that color scheme best for the stearman.

 

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I really luv the Steermans glorious engine sound I think the US has always made the best radials (apart from the Stringbags Pegasus of course ).

 

[Wildcat]

This is my favourite Stearman flying in Oz, I reakon it looks great!
sourcehttp://www.aerotec.com.au

 

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Bloody hell wild it looks like a flying Humbug

 

[evangilder]

Wow, it will certainly get noticed that way. Looks like a referree!

 

[Wildcat]

Yeah it does look like a referree! If I can remember correctly, it was painted to represent a form up plane for bombers? I think. I do remember seeing a black and white photo of one during the war in a magazine article that was written about this restored Stearman.

 

[evangilder]

That would make sense. The form up birds were always colorful and eye catching.

 

[Wildcat]

Yeah, especially those polka dot painted B24's!

 

[evangilder]

There are some great color pictures of form up birds in the book "The Mighty Eighth, The Colour Record" by Roger Freeman. Some are polka dot, some are striped.