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There they go...
...here they come...
...the Marchetti team, showing the crowd "where it's at."
This has been a labor of love.
 The VAC spent five years restoring this Wildcat after it was recovered from the bottom of Lake Michigan.
The cat has a Pratt and Whitney, 1200 hp, 14-cylinder radial engine. It traveled at 318 mph.
This venerable warbird rolled off the assembly line in 1940.
Here's the type of aircraft used by John Glenn to break the trans-continental speed record in 1957.
It's an F8U Vought, and it was a real hummer in its day.
Max speed 1,976 km/h. Ceiling, 17,700meters. Range, 3,360 nm.
It did the job nicely.
No, he is not the Red Baron, but a pretty good imitation.
 That's Tim Pluckett from the Spruce Creek Fly-in at Daytona Beach.
The plane is a 1917 Fokker DR1 triplane with two Spandau machine guns.
Pluckett says the plane was designed to be extremely maneuverable.
He also says it is extremely unstable. Tim claims it flies 100 mph at cruise, straight up, or straight down.
 I always wanted to fly one of those Fokkers.
Editor's Note: I'm going to step in long enough to brag a little. Here's one I always wanted to fly..and DID! This is Crazy Horse. Built in 1944, it was one of the few P-51's with two seats.
I got to fly her for an hour or so one day while we were shooting an ABC-TV story about the terrific aircraft restorations done at the Kissimmie, Florida Airport where Crazy Horse is based..I'm assuming it still is based there. At any rate, I have never flown an airplane with so much energy. You get in and Crazy Horse says to you, "Hey, let's go have some fun." And we surely did. The owner, Lee Lauderbach, flew her straight up...I did some much less spectacular things, needless to say.
But just think, it was all part of the job!
Some days are much, much better than others. Aw yeah, Babe.
Sorry to interrupt, Bill. Back to you on the next page. JS.
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