What happens in '45

[mdiehl]

There are a nominally flyable B24 and B29 at PASM (Pima Air and Space Museum) in Tucson. No one flys them, however, owing to the rarity of specimens in top repair.

[Snigbert]

Evidently I live in a historical aircraftless part of the country. I saw a Stealth Fighter fly over my yard very low once, though.

[Micah Goodman]

My most memorable moment with an airplane occurred when I was stationed at Ft. Hood back in the mid 90’s. We were out playing our normal army games and all day an air force unit had been practicing air to ground attack maneuvers by buzzing our tanks and APC’s. Well being the gunner on an M1A1 Abrams I heard them but never saw them. Well at the end of the day me and a few other soldiers had to go pick up the land mines that had been used that day. Don’t worry these were training mines that were blocks of circular concrete painted blue. Well we took a break for lunch and were sitting on the side of a dirt road when we all looked up just in time to see a F-16 Falcon dive bomb us. I could actually see the pilots face and felt the heat from the exhaust of his jet as he pulled up because he was so low. Strangely enough the thing I remember thinking to my self at first was, “man those running lights are bright on that guy’s plane.”

It made me real glad the U.S. Air Force was on my side let me tell you!

[CynicAl]

I saw one of the handful of flyable F7F Tigercats at a local airshow a couple of summers ago. It was quite a performance - he kept it way down low and right over the runway (i.e., in perfect position for us gawking planewatchers in the crowd), and just beat the place up. He really aerobatted the heck outta that thing. IIRC, he got the biggest round of applause of the day when he eventually turned onto final (at least until the Harrier demonstration)(which really isn't playing fair, IMO).