Look what just flew over my house!

[El Supremo]

I've never seen one of these. It's a Junkers JU-52 and is on it's way to Oshkosh later this month.

[Major Nikon]

1. The mass migration is starting

Thousands of aircraft will eventually be on their way there. It's an incredible airshow. They have just about everything that flies.

[MicaelS]

2. Left work Thursday morning near Meacham Airport..

Which is in North Ft Worth, and heard an airplane overhead. Looked up and saw a DC-3 flying low and slow. Awesome sound, very distinctive.

[El Supremo]

3. My father was the pilot in this promotional photo:

[snappyturtle]

4. Wow. When was the photo taken? thanks nt

[El Supremo]

6. about 1946

They used one of the pictures for this painting.

[snappyturtle]

8. Thanks...and another "Wow"! nt

[Major Nikon]

5. I fly in and out of Meacham quite a bit

There used to be a B-17 based there. I think it's in Galveston now, but it still comes back occassionally. I shared the pattern with it one time.

[MicaelS]

7. Vintage Flying Museum / Veterans Memorial Air Park

http://www.vintageflyingmuseum.org/

http://www.veteransmemorialairpark.com/home1.aspx

The Veterans Memorial Air Park have some 50s-60s era warbirds on static display at Ross Ave. and W. Long St. Amazing how small some of these aircraft are in real life, as opposed to photographs and film/video.

[Archae]

9. Sometimes the planes fly over my apartment building, on the way there.

One year a B-17, and 6 P-51 escorts, all in formation flew over. Low.

My gawd, that was music.

[TheMightyFavog]

11. I remember when the Battle of Britian Memorial Flight flew over me when i was in London...

One of two airworthy Avro Lancasters in the worlds and I saw one in flight. I feel honored. I remember walking with an old man who was an engineer on Halifax bombers during the war. he told me a story about how a group of B-17s low on fuel mad an emergency landing at his airfield. They all came in at once. He and his fellow comrades were worried that there would "be a bang" but they all came down safely. He remembers the USAAF aircrews coming out of the planes and just laying down under their planes and falling asleep from the sheer exhaustion of their mission.

[Archae]

14. Envyenvyenvy...

[TheMightyFavog]

15. I also got to see the sole surviving Boulton-Paul Defiant

Static display, of course. No need to make that abortion of an airplane airworthy again.

[TheMightyFavog]

10. Is it a German Ju-52 or one of the postwar Spanish built versions?

A lot of the flyable Ju-52s are the Spanish ones.

[El Supremo]

12. German made in 1939 and sold to Switzerland n/m

[Archae]

13. "Tante Ju."

German for "Auntie Ju."

German troops loved those planes.

[lastlib]

16. If it flew OVER your house.....

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...how did you get a picture from ABOVE it????

Or was it flying upside-down? Then how did the trees get in the pic?