{"id":2447,"date":"2012-01-23T17:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2018-11-08T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:32:20","slug":"tico-airshow-in-the-tp-40n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/kermit-weeks\/tico-airshow-in-the-tp-40n\/","title":{"rendered":"Tico Airshow in the TP-40N!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 550px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kermit-and-TP-40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2450       colorbox-2447\" title=\"Kermit and TP-40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kermit-and-TP-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arriving in the TP-40N<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I got a chance to fly my TP-40N over the the Tico Airshow this March and participate in honoring the AVG Flying Tigers. \u00a0They were the pilots that signed up to help the Chinese before America entered WWII and were forever remembered for the shark-teeth painted on the cowling. \u00a0The reason I don&#8217;t have the shark teeth painted on this airplane is because it came out later in the war and is the only factory-built dual-control TP-40 flying in the world today! \u00a0Also, we have another P-40E that does have the shark teeth on it!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 583px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Three-P-40s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2458      colorbox-2447\" title=\"Three P-40's\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Three-P-40s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Line-up of P-40&#39;s in attendance<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It had been years since I had been to the show as I generally stay don&#8217;t attend them like I used to, having done so for many years. \u00a0Put on by the Valiant Air Command, the show helps support their onsite\u00a0museum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 560px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/From-under-the-plane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2464    colorbox-2447\" title=\"From under the plane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/From-under-the-plane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kicked back watching the show!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tico was the first airshow I attended back in the early 1980&#8217;s in aircraft such as the P-51D Cripes A&#8217;Mighty and my Grumman Duck. \u00a0It brought back many fond memories of my early days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 585px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/On-stage-soon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2467        colorbox-2447\" title=\"On stage soon!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/On-stage-soon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Stage soon!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three P-40&#8217;s, including myself, attended and it was fun to fly with them for the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Kermit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance to fly my TP-40N over the the Tico Airshow this March and participate in honoring the AVG Flying Tigers. \u00a0They were the pilots that signed up to help the Chinese before\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtiss-tp-40n","category-fun-travel","category-kermit-weeks","tico-airshow-in-the-tp-40n"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}