Fighter/Bomber Planes

Ft Collins/Loveland Airport hosted 'The Collings Foundation' today. We had a great time being next to such incredible planes.

There are so many pictures for me to share, I even thought sharing them with you through a slideshow(because I think that they are all worth looking at) but you will be a sleep as I have close to 100 and yes I did try and make a slideshow but it was way to LONG.....So I thought I would share a few with you all.

McKahl is standing against one of the tires, there is probably at least another 10 to 12" above her yet.

The next one is interesting as you are to cut the hole in case of an emergency...are they serious..with what? and have the considered how far up in the air you might when you have an emergency?

The next picture is a P-51 Bomber. This is the only plane of it's kind left in the world. It is a dual cockpit (meaning it has two pilots). At the end of the show all but this plane took off, they ground this one because of how rare it is and the storms that were brewing over the mountains. They didn't just let any one by this plane, but as you see with a lot of help from Jeff, Mark and Joram where able to get up close enough to get pictures taken and Joram even got to look in.

The next few photos are from the inside of a couple of the planes. Since I wasn't the one that took these pictures on my camera (Joram was kind enough to be the shutterbug). I am not sure which ones belong to which plane.

But as you will with Mark in one of the pictures, these plane were NOT built for a large man of any sort, there is barely any room for him to fit through this opening.

Then you will see a black box...communcation....what no cell phones?

How would you like for this to be the dashboard of your car...it might weed out the stupid drivers...probably not

These are names of men that flew on the same mission as this plane and lost their lives. May they never be forgotten for what they did for our freedom and our country. Thank you!!