Four WWII airplanes fly over Paine Field in Snohomish County north of Seattle. The planes, from top to bottom - a North American B25J Mitchell, a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat, a North American P51D Mustang and a Goodyear FG-1D Corsair - all belong to the Flying Heritage Collection & Combat Armor Museum. Just out of the frame is a Japanese A6M3. The museum is a 501(c)3 dedicated to acquiring and preserving the combat aircraft from the 1930s and 1940s.
The sight of these 1940s era technological marvels flying is an impressive one. The sound of a single Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp 18 cylinder radial engine, what powers the Hellcat, is a wonderful one. To hear the roar of 90 cylinders all at once is a unique and special sound.
The Japanese A6M3 above was built in 1942 and recovered from New Guinea in the 1990s and rebuilt in Russia.
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