Marking not only the last regular schedule fly-in of 2008 before the start of our latest fly-in lottery, but also the date of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, this Sunday's event naturally took place on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Though Honolulu International Airport (PHNL) served as a good central place for the gathering, other airfields such as Wheeler, Bellows and Ford Island were also included within the fly-in area, to name only a few. Early in the morning, around the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, a number of pilots showed up for a mock dogfight in a number of old warbirds, including of course the Curtiss Warhawk and Mitsubishi Zero. The formation fly-by afterwards was less than completely successful, but that was to be expected, given the nature of network flight in X-Plane.
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| Air France Concorde by Gary J Hunter |
| Curtiss P-40 Warhawk by Christian Hawkins, based on earlier work by Heinz Dziurowitz |
| Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero by Jacques Brault, with improved sounds by Dataroots |
| Heinz Dziurowitz's Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress in metallic paint by Michael Wilson |
| US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet by Barry Leger |
| Douglas SBD Dauntless by Jacques Brault, with improved sounds by Dataroots |
| Oahu Photoscenery by Blue Sky Scenery, converted to X-Plane by Chuck Norris (part 1, part 2) |
| Honolulu East add-on by Blue Sky Scenery, converted to X-Plane by Chuck Norris (part 1, part 2, part 3) |
| Honolulu objects by Ted Davis |
Fly-in banner (featuring the P-40 Warhawk and A6M Zero listed above):