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I wonder if there are any working Grumman Avengers that can do a fly over.
1 posted on 12/04/2018 4:59:39 PM PST by C19fan
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Awesome ... can’t wait for this to be posted on youtube!


2 posted on 12/04/2018 5:02:46 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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That would be a sight.

I remember when I lived in Virginia Beach, every time a carrier would come into Norfolk, they would fly the planes to Oceana first.


3 posted on 12/04/2018 5:04:29 PM PST by yarddog
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They mocked GW when he landed on a carrier.


5 posted on 12/04/2018 5:05:32 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Will the MSM interrupt their love-fest to carp about the “expense”?


8 posted on 12/04/2018 5:12:21 PM PST by colorado tanker
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It’s pretty amazing that the nation elected Bill Clinton over Bush. I blame Perot. In many ways, Perot was a good guy. But he really dropped the ball in 1992.


11 posted on 12/04/2018 5:14:06 PM PST by Zhang Fei (They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
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I wonder if there are any working Grumman Avengers that can do a fly over.

Over two dozen in the US alone; it would be cool to have one do that.

13 posted on 12/04/2018 5:17:30 PM PST by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
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There’s one on the elevator deck of the USS Hornet, in Alameda rumored to be one that Bush actually flew.


17 posted on 12/04/2018 5:21:25 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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I wonder if there are any working Grumman Avengers that can do a fly over.

Looks like at least one flying Avenger torpedo bomber is part of FlyingLegends.


20 posted on 12/04/2018 5:25:03 PM PST by Flick Lives
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRAHsK0lFDI


21 posted on 12/04/2018 5:26:46 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Last year the body of a WWII aviator was returned to his home town of DeFuniak Springs from Germany.

The Air Force from Eglin and Hurlburt put on a remarkable funeral. They fired the salutes and just as they finished, either 5 or 6 F-35s flew over. Then one pealed away as they passed over.

This was at Magnolia Cemetery in DeFuniak. The military really knows how to do a funeral.


23 posted on 12/04/2018 5:28:53 PM PST by yarddog
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President Bush was a naval aviator. A fitting tribute.


25 posted on 12/04/2018 5:31:28 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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When I heard those Jets flying over I suspected it was practice. But 21 Jets? WOW!


26 posted on 12/04/2018 5:33:33 PM PST by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go jst inraight up his seat. to the comments..)
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I also told my wife that I hope it’s Navy Jets.


30 posted on 12/04/2018 5:34:19 PM PST by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go jst inraight up his seat. to the comments..)
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21 ship formation - wonder if that’s enough to spell out:

N O M O R E T A X E S


31 posted on 12/04/2018 5:36:14 PM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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Yes there are...at least a half dozen.


44 posted on 12/04/2018 5:59:38 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Unprecedented because we’ll have 21 planes in a group that can all actually fly at the same time.


49 posted on 12/04/2018 6:11:20 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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For Dorkbama, there will be a 21 fly flyover.


53 posted on 12/04/2018 6:31:47 PM PST by Da Coyote
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they sent 30 to fly 21? Sounds like they are short a few to account for attrition due to worn out airplanes after barky effed things up.


76 posted on 12/04/2018 8:55:23 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaged our dreams for survival. We just ha va few days that don't suck.)
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This stuff is just getting gross. Nothing against Bush, but this stuff is getting blasphemous.


82 posted on 12/05/2018 12:40:06 AM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Stawp the hammering!)
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We were living next to the Reagan Library when he died. The fly-over for his funeral was impressive, and it was small compared to this. I would love to watch this tomorrow in person! [chills]


87 posted on 12/05/2018 4:41:20 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Great things never come from comfort zones.)
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