On a bright cool October day we recently enjoyed a trip to the lakefront in New Orleans to see the WW2 airshow.
The aircraft are amazing, kept in great shape and still flying. Visitors can still ride them for a fee, which seemed rather steep until we were told it takes about $10,000 a month to keep the B-29 maintained and flying.
Business was brisk and there were many customers waiting for their chance to experience these old warriors.
Why? you many wonder would a old chick like me be interested in old planes?
I guess my interest came from raising 2 sons who were besotted with them and their history. Still hanging on the ceilings of their old bedrooms are models of the planes in the photos above. We often traveled to airshows then and watched history documentaries for hours.
Of course, in my generation we were raised to admire the men who flew those planes at great peril to save the world . Some of them were family and friends of our parents.
It was a beautiful day--full of history and memories, both bitter and sweet.
And we were very glad of their presence during WWII even if they were "overpaid, oversexed and over here!". One of those heroic gentlemen from New Orleans liked the English so much that he married one of them and thus became my uncle.
ReplyDeleteFabulous photos; fabulous aircraft!
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