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Posted By:
Don Maxwell
Date Posted:
Aug 12, 2018
Description:
"Mudplane." That's what the volunteers were calling my Searey at the Military Aviation Museum after I taxied through a mudpuddle when landing there on the 11th. I never saw it, nor the splash--which evidently was spectacular.
Ordinarily, 42VA is closed to visiting aircraft--there are noise-sensitive neighbors just to the north, and of course, the "insurance" problem. But THIS day the Museum was having its first annual (I hope!) open fly-in. The weather forecast didn't look great, and there was no big publicity campaign, but about 20 visiting airplanes showed up anyway.
The Military Aviation Museum is privately owned. Its collection of WW I and WW II era aircraft is... well, it sure is impressive! It has a P-51, a Spitfire, a PBY, a Dragon Rapide, a Focke Wulf 190 (like the one Bob Hoover stole to escape from a Nazi prison camp) and many scores of others, possibly close to a hundred now, from both sides of both wars and many from before and between the wars.
Almost all are airworthy and are flown regularly. There are no "keep back" fences, either. You can walk right up to the planes and love them.
I had wangled permission to land there once before, back in 2011. Some of the photos from that trip made it here from the old MyFamily site--this and several to the "Next
of it. Click on this link: https://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZOYY0000
For others, search IN THIS SITE for "42va"
(The site says "Hal Brown" posted those photos. Hal is a friend of mine, but the only photo of his on this site is of my Searey and Brett Smith's. I can't find it just now. No one knows how Hal's name got associated with other photos here, but there are a lot of them.)
Date Taken:
2018-08-11
Place Taken:
42VA, Virginia Beach Airport
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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The trip began 90 miles west, near Richmond VA. I followed the James River downstream to Norfolk. It's my favorite route, past Jamestown Island and what's left of the Dead Fleet, then south, then east to clear Fentress NALF and back north a bit to the Museum.
This is the "Tar Bay Archepelago"--not an official name, but fitting. (If you happen to remember my "Wake Island" story from way back, it's the longest one here.)
As you see, the weather forecasts had not been auspicious. There was light rain ("lie train," in the voice of the weather robot), with 60% chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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Here are clips from the approach and landing on runway 29, 5000 x 200 feet. Just as I turned base, an airplane took off from runway 11, heading right toward me. He immediately did a wingover back to the runway and picked up a banner. It's not in the video, but it was interesting to watch from the Searey. (video 46 secs)
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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And here's the banner tow plane. I missed the banner itself, but you get the main action. (video 6 secs)
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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Lindsay had a Searey for several years, but traded it in on a Legend (super) Cub.
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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We wandered through one of the newer hangars... (Not much of a photo--but who had time to take photos with so many airplanes to gawk at!)
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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It wasn't long before Dave arrived in his Searey. He didn't find my mudpuddle.
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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Some rather fanciful designs from the Dritte Reich. These three never got off the Nazi drawing board, but the Museum has built them from the plans.
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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I've forgotten what this one is--a very sleek four-place job. It and nearly all of the Military Aviation Museum's aircraft are flown regularly. It's not a stand-back hands-off sort of place.
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Steve Kessinger - Aug 12,2018
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I thought it was a Bf-108 and was close, it's a Nord Pingouin, the Bf-108 reengined with a Renault engine.
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=108ZZ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Pingouin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_108
IIRC Martin Caidin raved about it in The Saga of Iron Annie.
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Don Maxwell - Aug 12,2018
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V-1 "buzz bomb" control servos. This aircraft is not a replica. It was discovered bricked up in a tunnel well after WW II ended and has all original parts. It could bomb London...
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