clear blue skies over Lancaster. The N9MB Flying Wing also put on a very nice aerobatic display.
Lancaster, California. The weekend’s 75th anniversary tribute to Pearl Harbor kicked off with a Friday night
meet‐and‐greet featuring a softball game between the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot
School at nearby Edwards AFB, hula dancing, a luau show and period warbird flyover. The two‐day show fea‐
tured world‐class aerobatics, parachute demonstrations, wing‐walking, warbird fly‐bys, USAF and NASA jet
fly‐bys, the Tora! Tora! Tora! recreation of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and ended with the
Navy’s Blue Angels.
The Texas Flying Legends Museum brought quite a few of its warbirds to the show: FM‐2 Wildcat, TBM‐3
Avenger, P‐40K Warhawk “Aleutian Tiger,” B‐25J Mitchell “Betty’s Dream,” P‐51D Mustang “Dakota Kid II”
and Spitfire MkIX “Half Stork.” Unfortunately, their A6M2 Zero and FG‐1D Corsair were involved in a taxiing
accident during a refueling stop on the flight out. The six warbirds made several formation passes before per‐
forming