Look up in the sky...It's a B25

[Streetgang]

Those of you in and around NAS PAX River.. Panchito a B-25J is flying around this AM and afternoon... What an awesome sight on a day like today! I'll see if I can get a pic. He's doing touch and goes right now.

 

[Yoshi]

Sweet! Isn't the "J" model the one with all the .50 cals?

 

[Tree Rat]

Yep....Larry has a nice little ship there.

I flew in that crate last year out of St. Marys. He bases it over in Delaware.


TR

 

[Streetgang]

He comes here twice a year for qual eval. Great bunch of guys in his crew.

 

[CanDoEZ]

Yep....Larry has a nice little ship there.

I flew in that crate last year out of St. Marys. He bases it over in Delaware.


TR

Admit it you old fart, you used to crew those back in "dubya dubya eye eye"

 

[Maverick0313]

I envy you! Too cool......

 

[Bigfoot21075]

 

[HappyCamper]

I was able crawl around in one a while back, pretty awesome. Funny how small they actuall are. I used to think of them as large aircraft until you see it parked next to a modern day fighter. About the same footprint as an F-15.

 

[Maverick0313]

I read a book once by Martin Caidin (WHIP) that featured B-25s; the plane featured the 2 x .50 bilisters on either side of the nose (for 4 total_, 8 x .50s in the nose for 12 forward firing .50's!!!! they would also swiver the top turret forward with it's 2 - .50s for 14 fricking 50 cals blazing away...it could cut a small ship in half with one pass.....there was also a version as you probably know with a 75mm cannon in the forward bubble.....

 

[Polecat]

I work at the end of one of the runways and it is a treat to watch all of the "activity".

 

[swinokur]

Jimmy Doolittle would be very proud.

 

[BlackBart]

Yep....Larry has a nice little ship there.

I flew in that crate last year out of St. Marys. He bases it over in Delaware.


TR

Yup, I met him and his wife a couple times at local auctions, nice people. He invited me to look her over but never got around to it.

 

[Outerlimits]

While I still worked for UPS (retired now), when I was on Pax with a driver, I would spend time at the end of the runway down by the steam catupult, watching the various aircraft touch and go. One of the fringe benfits I miss the most.

 

[krucam]

Sucks working in the area yet so far....Webster Field has only these silly UAV's for excitement...

 

[STSCM]

You have no idea how I wish I could embed this video, but it's not a standard format.
http://www.theospark.net/2010/11/asb-tv-winner-of-asb-mustang-ride.html
A few pointers, look at the ladies total enjoyment in the flight itself. Then her response for her husbands ride. (Her husbands dying of brain cancer). I'm obviously one of the weaker dudes here, give me the address to mail back my man card.
Anyway, check it out, great plane and really great passengers. FWIW. (Bottle the sound of the RR engine, instant millionaire.

 

[gamer_jim]

What?

 

[krucam]

What?

P51, B52....what's the diff....

 

[Tree Rat]

Tin roof.....rusted.


TR

 

[Polecat]

You have no idea how I wish I could embed this video, but it's not a standard format.
http://www.theospark.net/2010/11/asb-tv-winner-of-asb-mustang-ride.html
A few pointers, look at the ladies total enjoyment in the flight itself. Then her response for her husbands ride. (Her husbands dying of brain cancer). I'm obviously one of the weaker dudes here, give me the address to mail back my man card.
Anyway, check it out, great plane and really great passengers. FWIW. (Bottle the sound of the RR engine, instant millionaire.

Thanks, great video!

 

[Old Salty Dog]

I read a book once by Martin Caidin (WHIP) that featured B-25s; the plane featured the 2 x .50 bilisters on either side of the nose (for 4 total_, 8 x .50s in the nose for 12 forward firing .50's!!!! they would also swiver the top turret forward with it's 2 - .50s for 14 fricking 50 cals blazing away...it could cut a small ship in half with one pass.....there was also a version as you probably know with a 75mm cannon in the forward bubble.....

My father actually wrote the training manual for that aircraft. I still have one of his original manuals. He loved to fly it, and said that when the 75mm cannon fired, it recoiled enough that it felt like the plane had stopped flying for a second. The cannons were only put in the solid nosed versions, as far as I know, and they worked very well at taking out Japanese shipping in the Pacific.