Arsenal of Democracy

[Ari707]

On May 8th the 70th anniversary of VE day there will be a large fly over of world war 2 aircraft over Washington.
It looks to be one of the largest and most diverse fly overs of WWII aircraft.

http://www.ww2flyover.o (http://www.ww2flyover.org)rg

[Gerard]

Wow that awesome!! Hope the weather holds up!! Wonder where they will be flying out of. Multiple airports?

[Chris S]

Yes, they'll be flying out of both Culpeper Regional Airport (CJR) and Manassas Regional Airport (MNZ) in VA for the flyover.

[Gerard]

Yes, they'll be flying out of both Culpeper Regional Airport (CJR) and Manassas Regional Airport (MNZ) in VA for the flyover.

AAM aircraft participating?

[moose135]

Very cool! I may need to get up there for this.

[Chris S]

AAM aircraft participating?

Right now it looks like the AAM will be flying their P-47 Thunderbolt "Jacky's Revenge" in the flyover :cool:
You can check the "Flyover Formations" tab on their site for the latest info on aircraft participating.

[megatop412]

Only going if the Ploesti flyover comes in 30 feet off the deck...if they want to "keep it real"

[markg]

Yes, they'll be flying out of both Culpeper Regional Airport (CJR) and Manassas Regional Airport (MNZ) in VA for the flyover.

The code for Manassas is HEF. Not sure when it changed.

[Gerard]

I wonder if any gyrocopters will be included in the FlyBy? :rolleyes::tongue:

[Ari707]

This is happening NOW if anyone is in the DC area
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/politics/world-war-ii-flyover-washington-national-mall/index.html

[Wavefront]

I was at DC for this flyover. It was great to see so many warbirds showed up in one event. Here are some of my pictures.

About half of the pictures I took were blurry, out of focus. It was either my skill has deteriorated due to haven't done aviation photography for too long, or the auto-focus in my camera was acting up. Anyhow, better get this problem resolved before the airshow season. :)

http://kecheng.smugmug.com/Events/Arsenal-of-Democracy/i-zLf3PgW/0/L/IMG_9690-L.jpg

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[Ari707]

wish the pictures could be accompanied with sound.

[Chris S]

You can watch the whole flyover and hear all the sounds on this C-SPAN video link :cool:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?325808-1/world-war-ii-victory-europe-70th-anniversary-flyover

[Gerard]

You can watch the whole flyover and hear all the sounds on this C-SPAN video link :cool:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?325808-1/world-war-ii-victory-europe-70th-anniversary-flyover

Excellent camera work!! Using multiple camera to catch the action and was that Rob Reider doing the narration?