Gathering of Mustangs

[427TJ]

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Glacier Girl is in fact the P-38 that they dug out from under the ice in Greenland. Neat story, only wish they could retreive more of them.

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GG is rumored to have sold recently for $11,000,000. Now every P-38 guy thinks his airplane is worth 11 mil. Sound familiar guys???

[70 copo]

As for the warbirds and the popularity here, to me that is simple. The Musclecars/Supercars are the "war birds" of the automotive world. Like the fighters were to transport airctaft musclecars are to normal street transportation.

For the musclecars and Supercars the "kills" happened on the tracks and on the street.

[SS427]

To compare Glacier Girl with some other P-38's would be rediculous. She has no was history but is still in a class all by herself.

I followed GG's discovery and restoration very closely from the beginning days and I would be willing to bet that there was close to $11M in total cost investments in it. I doubt anyone made much money on her. I thought I remembered $2M in just the discovery and recovery alone.

[427TJ]

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To compare Glacier Girl with some other P-38's would be rediculous.

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Exactly. GG is far and away the most impressive P-38, perhaps the most impressive Warbird restoration overall. But as we see in the car world, once the bar is set that high every other guy thinks his car (airplane, boat, etc.) is now worth much more than it is.

I saw GG at the Reno Air Races two weeks ago and it is breathtaking.

[olredalert]

------Couldnt make it to Columbus but went to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo to get a fix. While I would rather have been in Coloumbus the Air Zoo is a really great museum........Bill S

[ANDY M]

OK guys, a have decompressed enough to post the pics from the big show on Saturday and Sunday. Only 35,000 were on hand Friday for the "dress rehersal", so I wansn't totally done by the end of the day.
Just so you know, I was a volunteer worker for 6 of the 7 days the GML was in town. My sole job was to be the gatekeeper of the back door to the air opps/ media building.
The original control tower building, which dates back to the Lockborne AFB days, (late 40's to mid 90's), was re-activated for this show. The GML show headquarters started in a stripped bare building with nothing but folding tables and chairs, electric but NO running water, in a building that housed the air opps, FAA, P-51 pilot and crew check in, media check in and interview rooms, and called it the "Welcome Center".
The front door was far enough away from the main gate that strangers weren't that big of an issue.
The back door was open to access by anyone at the show, so keeping out the curious spectators looking for bathrooms with flush toilets, parents with kids that wanted to see the control tower, people who were in need of information, etc. kept me busy from 0700 to 1530 when I was relieved. There were 100k plus on Saturday, and about 100k again on Sunday. Wore me out pretty good.
Anyhoo, here are so more pics and vids from the show.
Aside from all of the warbirds that I wanted to photograph but couldn't, me only regret was not getting anything of the F-22 Raptor demo. I could watch that show every day and still be amazed enough to forget to use my camera.

Saturday at sunrise C-5A.



B-17's on the apron.

[ANDY M]

Opening show with 5000 sq. ft. Flag, with the Red Barron airobatic team.