The Cascade Warbirds’ flyover wasn’t the only one that day. BNSF Locomotives and Mount Rainier Flyover Friday What a beautiful day and thanks to my work, I was able to make a stop to capture these images. On my way back, I had to stop and snap a picture of these BNSF locomotives sitting next to Boeing Field with Mount Rainier in the background. After spotting the Cascade Warbirds, I also snapped another picture of Boeing’s newest 777 aircraft while parked at their facility at Boeing Field.
I am sure the pilots had a great view of Mount Rainier on their way south.įor me, it was a great sight to see these planes flying outside of an airshow. The weather couldn’t have been any better than it was. About halfway down the runway, two planes turned on the smoke and draw a nice path in front of the Museum of Flight while continuing on south towards Tukwilla and Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
It was great to hear their engines soar through the air while I was busy capturing them.
CASCADE WARBIRDS MOVIE
It looked like a scene out of a movie with this small attach planes flying that low. Just before noon, the warbirds came in low from the northern end of the Boeing Field runway. Unfortunately, they didn’t and therefore I waited patiently with my camera ready at Boeing Field. First I was checking if they would have ADS-B transmitters so I could follow them on one of the many flight tracking apps. I captured the Cascade Warbirds during their fight over Boeing Field, just south of Seattle. Their route took the warbirds south from Arlington Municipal Airport over the cities of Everett, Lynnwood, Seattle, Tukwila, SeaTac, Des Moines, Federal Way, Fife, Tacoma and others on the way. During the summer months, roughly from April through September, the aviation enthusiasts fly their warbirds at airshows and other events. The Cascade Warbirds is a group of aviation enthusiasts who want to promote restoration, preservation and, operation of historic aircraft as well as aviation education and honoring veterans. Victory in Europe Day, also called V-E Day, marks the Allied forces’ formal acceptance of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. This flyover of the Cascade Warbirds was in honor of the 75th anniversary of victory in Europe during World War II. The Cascade Warbirds’ historic military aircraft departed Arlington Municipal Airport (KAWO) around 11:30 a.m. She was bought by her current owner in October of 2011, and was ferried up to Everett, WA where she’s hangared at Paine Field (KPAE) and flies regularly with the local warbird nuts, the Cascade Warbirds.This past Friday, May 8, 2020, a squadron of eleven vintage aircraft took to the sky. Bought by a gentleman in TX in 2007, she was put through a beautiful restoration, to include a new interior, a fresh paint job, and a life extension inspection. Retired in 1999, she was disassembled, sent to FL and reassembled in 2000, and registered as N149DF. Piaggio P.1033-G4/DA 3-bladed, constant speedīorn in 1963 as S/N 348, she went directly to Switzerland to serve as an ab-initio trainer for Swissair as HB-EBQ. A few more were delivered to the Uganda Airforce (P 149U´s).
SWISSAIR, for example, bought five “Piggi´s” (P 149E´s) for their now abandoned flight academy in Zurich, Switzerland. Most of them were military, but a few examples went to private customers. (Powered by BMW Engine S/N´s start with a B-) Even the engines had been license-built by BMW in Bavaria. They carry Focke Wulf Data-plates and S/N´s from 001 to 190. Here another 190 examples have been produced for the German Military. Thereafter, the type certificate was sold to Focke Wulf and the whole production-line was moved to Bremen/Germany. They carry Piaggio-Dataplates and S/N´s between 250 and 325 but were put together in Germany. The German Forces got 72 “Piggi´s” as unassembled kits from the Italian factory. The German Forces picked the aircraft as a trainer, ahead of the Beechcraft T34 Mentor and the Saab 91 Safir, mainly because of its big cabin, since the plane would also serve as a liaison aircraft for the German Air force and the German Navy.