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Title: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: Pigslilspaz on April 12, 2011, 02:18:15 AM
So, every year the Collings Foundation comes out here to Concord, CA with their WWII planes. Was looking up the tour dates, and it turns out that they are having a 262 with them this year! :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O

My heart literally skipped a beat when I saw this. So very excited.
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: 100Coogn on April 12, 2011, 02:23:04 AM
 :noid
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: Pigslilspaz on April 12, 2011, 02:27:15 AM
It's the only flying 262 in N.A.
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: 100Coogn on April 12, 2011, 02:39:32 AM
I wouldn't know how to act if I actually saw one. 
I believe you desribed it well.

 :banana: Coogan

Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: BrownBaron on April 12, 2011, 02:48:13 AM
So, every year the Collings Foundation comes out here to Concord, CA with their WWII planes. Was looking up the tour dates, and it turns out that they are having a 262 with them this year! :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O

My heart literally skipped a beat when I saw this. So very excited.

Get us lotsa pics, video, detailed sketches, anything to give us a sense of the experience!  :aok
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: MiloMorai on April 12, 2011, 08:20:42 AM
It would have to be one of the replicas powered by J85 engines.
http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html

Still nice.
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: colmbo on April 12, 2011, 09:57:20 AM
And that last I saw in their newsletter they should be doing rides in the 262 as well as the bombers and P-51.
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: Pigslilspaz on April 12, 2011, 10:21:06 AM
Took a ride in the B-25 last year, got to sit in the nose  :D
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: MarineUS on April 12, 2011, 01:49:56 PM
envious is the only word I can think of right now... :aok
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: Ripsnort on April 12, 2011, 02:03:12 PM
Is it this one? Taken a few years ago at Paine Field. We toured their facility, and they happen to be rolling her out that day with some other WW2 stuff for a video

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218359.jpg)
(That's Raubovel if anyone remembers him from AH past years)


(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218361.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218362.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218363.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218364.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218365.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218366.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218372.jpg)
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: F22RaptorDude on April 12, 2011, 03:33:30 PM
Is it this one? Taken a few years ago at Paine Field. We toured their facility, and they happen to be rolling her out that day with some other WW2 stuff for a video

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218359.jpg)
(That's Raubovel if anyone remembers him from AH past years)


(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218361.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218362.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218363.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218364.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218365.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218366.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/23771327/396218372.jpg)
Is that a 2 seater?
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: Ripsnort on April 12, 2011, 03:37:13 PM
Is that a 2 seater?
Yes.
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: MiloMorai on April 12, 2011, 06:17:54 PM
Is that a 2 seater?

No, the pilot had extra long legs so the seat had to be moved back. :devil :angel:
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: jolly22 on April 12, 2011, 06:31:13 PM
Thats a German 262 with a USA ammo box next to it.   :lol
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: MiloMorai on April 12, 2011, 06:43:53 PM
Thats a German 262 with a USA ammo box next to it.   :lol

Watson's Wizards have arrived. ;)
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: trax1 on April 12, 2011, 09:01:30 PM
Wow, that would be awesome to actually see in person, and was colmbo serious that they will be offering rides in it, I mean if it's true what would that cost?
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: Pigslilspaz on April 12, 2011, 09:03:49 PM
They also offer stick time in a two seater P-51C. Don;t know prices for 262 put for the pony its about $2k for 30 minutes ~$3k for an hour. Worth it once I retire, lol.
Title: Re: Heart Attack of the best kind.
Post by: trax1 on April 12, 2011, 09:17:42 PM
They also offer stick time in a two seater P-51C. Don;t know prices for 262 put for the pony its about $2k for 30 minutes ~$3k for an hour. Worth it once I retire, lol.
Wow that's a lot of money.  If it's that much for the P-51 then I can only imagine what they'd ask for the 262, but I'm sure they'll be people lining up to pay it.