Vintage WWII warplanes buzzed our house today! [PICS]
 

In honor of our town's 150th b'day (and the Rose Festival Parade) - we were greeted with an amazing fly-by of the only (airworthy) remaining Lancaster Bomber in the world (stationed in Hamilton, Ont.) - and several vintage escort fighters including a German Messerschmitt and Spitfire.

I grabbed these quick shots from my porch as they did two fly-bys.

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that's very cool.

oh man awesome. you won't see those often in the air.

That's awesome.

Nope, rather a rare sight.

They had the Lanc, two Spitfires, a Hurricane and the Messer. I barely had time to duck into the house to grab the Nikon before they were overhead.

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

Those old warbirds are very cool.

Nice looking pix,that would be awesome

looks nice :)

had the chance to fly in a B-17 in oregon when I was a kid...fucking awesome seeing these things in person and in the air

where are you at SK?

Nice picture, we have a few old war birds that fly around from time to time here in Daytona.. They are always a welcomed site to see. (I'm drooling over that 109)


Jump in Aces High 2 and you can shoot them down.. :winkwink:

Reminds me of the movie Pearl Harbor.
thanks..

I'm in Burbank,CA .. a few weeks ago we had about 50 WWII planes flying over my house through the day, they were taking off from burbank airport.. it was fucking awesome, every 10 minutes a new one would fly over very close to my house..

did they drop any bombs?

Nice photos :)

great shot thanks for sharing :):):)

cool stuff..a few months ago I had the Red Arrows buzz my house in some sort of display..seriously loud

Cool pics!

Great shots!

In the picture:

-Lancaster
-Spitfire
-Hurricane
-Messerschmitt Bf 109

WWII planes are somehow just beautiful, despite their uses. I find them to be a bit romantic in an eerie sense.

My sentiments exactly. A bittersweet piece of nostalgic history - unfortunately at the cost of many lives of brave and daring men.

Youtube has a video of that same Messerschmidt taking off from its private runway. Search for "Messerschmidt and Fort Erie" and it should come up.

Niagara region, Canada.

The Messerschmidt is owned by a multi-millionaire collector near Fort Erie, Ont. He has several vintage warplanes and his own airport. Years ago he sued Disney over a theme park he designed and was awarded major bucks in the settlement...which he uses to expand his plane collection.

holy shit thats awesome!

Cool :thumbsup

I live in Burbank, that sucks I missed them (damn Downtown studio)

Those are excellent pictures. Thanks so much for sharing them. I am a big fan of old planes and it really looks cool. :)

Wow, that's awesome. Imagine how amazing it must feel to fly a piece of history like that...those pilots are as lucky as they get, especially the Messerschmidt's pilot. I'd give anything to fly one of those...

I've heard the four engines on the old Lanc uses up close to $5k in fuel just to make a few fly-bys. And that was a few years back when prices hadn't gone through the roof like today.

really cool, i'd love to see something like that

A bit like cathedrals ..you might not like why they were built of what happened in them but it is hard not to appreciate the beauty.