Thursday, April 7, 2011

Wings N Wheels Show 2011 (British Invasion)

Well its finally broke. Jerry O'Neill (Airshow Organizer) has released the details for this year's Wings N Wheels Airshow held at historic Sikrosky Memorial Airport. Linked below is the post Jerry made on Warbird Information Exchange.


May 21 & 22 will see vintage vehicles and aircraft converge on Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Stratford, CT for "Wings N Wheels: British Invasion". We will be saluting the 50th Anniversary of the Jaguar XKE with multiple examples as well as other British cars and aircraft.

For us warbird guys, here's the scheduled line-up:
P-40 Jacky C, FG-1D Skyboss, C-54 BAHF, B-25 Panchito, Spitfire (Sunday 22nd only), C-47, C-45, Sopwith 1/2 Strutter, SNJ, Fokker Triplane, SPAD VII, T-28, PT-23, PT-17, Howard DGA, C-130, L-39, HH-60, H-34 Seahorse, UH-1D Huey. parts of the Stratford based FG-1D Restoration will also be on display. Sorry, pieces only as they have made some great progress since last year!

Orbiter Pilot Joe Edwards will perform acro in his T-28 and Billy Werth will perform his acro routine in his Pitts S2C.
Panchito will also be offering thier ride program all weekend long!

The VIP Photo Pass program is also gong on this year. The weekend pass (there's daily ones too!) includes Friday arrival day, Saturday and Sunday 5:00am Access to field. Behind the ropes ramp access during show, Night shoots on both Friday and Saturday nights with running aircraft and lighting provided, two vertical lifts for high angle photography. See details on website.
There is more pending and I will update you on them as they happen. They just got the website up.


http://wingsnwheelsct.org/

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