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Post by featherduster on Jul 5, 2012 6:53:22 GMT -5
Interesting story: Every year La Porte,Indiana puts on the largest 4th of July parade in the state and the parade has always started with a military fly over. In recent years it's become difficult to get military planes because of other requests and because of military cutbacks. This year we had two A-10's make only one pass and then......... the Jap's invaded us. It turns out that a Mr.Doug Jackson of Wichita,Kansas owns a perfect Mitsubishi A6M2 aka JAP ZERO replica that was created for the movie TORA TORA TORA, Jackson had contacted our local airport to reserve fuel for the morning of the fourth as he was going to be passing through on his way to New York. The airport got in touch with our local Jaycees and they in turn got in touch with Mr.Jackson to see if he could do a flyover. Mr. Jackson was more than willing to, and made ( 3 ) strafing runs over our parade route. www.warbirddepot.com/aircraft_fighters_zero-jackson.asp
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