2009 Monocoupe Fly-In at Creve Coeur Airport

By Carmelo Turdo

The 2009 Monocoupe Club Fly-In is in full swing at Creve Coeur Airport (old Dauster Flying Field) October 2, 2009. It was too windy to fly, but some Monocoupes were already on display.

Other aircraft are featured at the Monocoupe Fly-In. Planes from the LaFayette Foundation were visiting this weekend. We regret to report that one of the LaFayette Foundation aircraft had an incident on landing yesterday in the windy conditions, but the pilot is fine. However the aircraft was trucked back to Colorado. Please visit the LaFayette Foundation website at www.lafayettefoundation.org/ for more information about the collection of World War I replica aircraft.

Some Boeing/Stearman aircraft were on hand at the Monocoupe Fly-In along with other treasures in nearby hangars.

St. Louis Regional Airport Fly-In Attracts Area Warbirds

By Carmelo Turdo

St. Louis Regional Airport held their annual Fly-In September 26. The popular event attracted a variety of aircraft, including a selection of warbirds among the general aviation aircraft shown here: Beech AT-11 Kansan, T-28 Trojan, AT-6 Texan, Navion, Luscombe T-8F, RV-6, Waco YKS-7, Magni M-16 and L-29 Delfin jet trainer.

2009 Scott AFB Airshow Display Aircraft and Canadian Snowbirds

By Carmelo Turdo

Scott AFB held its annual airshow September 19-20, 2009. We attended the show on Saturday the 19th and was able to see the Snowbirds perform (Sunday was a rain-out). The F-4 Phantom II was a big hit, along with the Snowbirds.

E-2C with eight-bladed props! Closeup below:





DC-3 used by the FAA - see insignia below:





McDonnell Douglas QF-4E 73-1167 used in Heritage Flight.

Ltc.Ryan Luchsinger, QF-4 Demo pilot.



Spare Snowbirds aircraft Nos. 1 and 4 and crew autographs.