Warbirds Over The Beach

Corsair Dolphin

 So on May 19th we were lucky enough to go to Warbirds Over the Beach in the Virginia Beach area.  It was held at the Military Aviation Museum.  This is an awesome place to go even if there isn't an air show going on.  If you are EVER in the area and love old planes, I highly recommend it!

Honestly we have TONS of photos from this, but I just chose a few because I'm really not that good with names of planes and such.  That's more Jim's area of expertise.  And he had control of the camera that day.

 We got a snapshot of the artillery gun that they had on display.  I told Jim to snap another photo of the guy explaining the gun because he was in a World War II uniform.

Which is another thing that I loved.  There were tons of people in clothing from the 1940s.  I desperately wanted to get some pictures of the women that had some fabulous dresses on, but we only managed to get them as they were walking away.  Note to self...  Be bold!  Ask those lovely people if they would mind if you snapped a photo of them.  I bet they would let you!

We also managed to snag this great photo of the planes lined up.

It was really cool to get to watch the planes in flight.  The airstrip is grass and their is no control tower.

We got to see the Corsair (Jim's favorite) take off and fly.  Plus we saw a PBY take off and in flight.  It's a big honking thing, but it does look graceful while in flight.  Although you wonder if it's ever gonna get up and go, because it's so slow!  LOL

So I'll end this with a photo of the Corsair  with it's wings up and the F4F Wildcat is the one with the wings down. (edited with the help of the hubby)