Wings of Victory

The Woodland-Davis Aeromodelers have had another successful Wings of Victory fly-in.


I attended on Saturday. The weather was picture perfect and the scope and breadth of models present was impressive.


The models spanned a range from WWI to the Vietnam War. The only requirement for this fly-in was that your model had to be a war bird.


There were about 30 pilots registered and three times as many spectators enjoying the flying.


This Corsair had a five cylinder radial engine. It sounded awesome making its way around the pattern.


These young aces looked happy watching the action.


This L-3 was doing some spotting for the attack aircraft.


Monty Welch was the CD for the event. He had scratch built one of the more unusual models at the event. Can anyone name it. No fair if Monty has already told you.


Here's a second look, note that it is an inline twin.


Here is an ME-262, with two gas turbine engines. I would have loved to see it fly but I had to leave before it took to the air.


Now we move into the post WWII era. This is Dan Avila's P-80.


He also has an F-100 Super Sabre done up in similar high visability markings that is a sight to see.


Here's a MIG to mix it up with the P-80.


The Aeromodelers have a big piece of property and on the far side I saw several turbine helicopters flying the first is my good friend Gonzalo's turbine Lama. Gonzalo told me some YouTube videos of his chopper have over 100,000 hits. It is a beautiful model.


Gonzalo introduced me to Dan who had a turbine Huey that was top notch too.

Well that's it for the Wings of Victory. If you're in the area and the Aeromodelers are having an event you should go because they always deliver.