Nostalgia....Great American Photos from the Past

[TM7]

Photos of a past era.....pretty good....TM7

http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp


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[guzzijohn]

Thanks for sharing those. I have seen many of those pictures in B&W but not color. The yellow glider is I think a TG-2 (training glider #2). Most of my glider flight training was in a slightly improved version called the TG-3. Very heavy stick control on roll due them being rigged to simulate the large troop/cargo gliders used in WWII. Also noticed that it did no appear that the US had any obesity problem back then!
GuzziJohn

[Pat/Rick]

guzzi, who and when did you fly for? What types of aircraft? Thanks.

[guzzijohn]

I just fly gliders for fun. Have a bit of powered time but not a power license. Did get to do some spin training in a Pitts Special which was a hoot. Received my private glider license in 1988. One of our club gliders was a WWII vintage TG-3. It was destroyed in a spin in crash into a grove if trees but the pilot's only injury was a cut thumb which happened when he was trying to get out of the wreckage.
GuzziJohn

[Pat/Rick]

Sounds like that would be fun! The Pima Air Museum in Tucson has the flight deck of a WACO glider on display, also the movie star Jackie Cooper flew gliders in the Burma theater in WWII. Yep, I like old airplanes  .

[gstewart44]

TM7 - thanks for the great link.   some of those pix remind me of the rural south when I was a kid.   

[guzzijohn]

The Pima museum is great. Liberal Kansas has a really good air museum which is largely unknown. A large number of flyable WWII aircraft along with some other stuff. If you go to it go on a Friday as that is the least busy. I went on a Friday and it was so slow I got to talking with one of the staff that helps in restoring the aircraft. He took me behind the scene to the workshops and showed me around. He also let me sit in several cockpits which usually is not allowed.
GuzziJohn