WWI aircraft coming to Virginia Beach Airshow this weekend (May 16-17, 2009)
Posted by David on May 11, 2009 03:52 AM
Airshow at the Virginia Beach AirportThe Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach is hosting its first annual airshow called Warbirds Over the Beach. They've teamed up with the Great War Aerodrome to bring in a variety of aircraft and their pilots, as well as to provide a meeting place for replica builders, historians, artists, modelers, and WWI re-enactors. Check it out if you're on that side of the Atlantic ocean!
Here's some aircraft scheduled to appear:
Jerry Yagen's Sopwith Pup scale replica
Roland Gilliam's S.E.5a
Bill Drummond's 7/8 Nieuport 11
Larry Botsford's Curtiss Jenny
Jerry Yagen's Fokker D.VII replica
Jerry Yagen's Fokker Dr.I replicaAlso expected to make an appearance are the following:
Nieuport 17 (Dan White)
AVRO 504 (Blue Swallow project)
Nieuport 24 (Aviation Institute of Maintenance WWI Student Project)
Related:
Dawn Patrol Rendezvous 2009 (September 25-27, Dayton, Ohio)
"Wings Over Wairarapa" airshow at the Hood Aerodrome January 17-18, 2009