Ok, we got up early (6 am) and made our 3 hrs trip to Stuttgart.
The weather was real nice, a splendid sunrise proposed a day that will make your face look like a red lobster. BUT... great flying weather!
The location looked not like an airstrip, where warbirds will takeoff. But they did, and how they did!

At first we met Lodda (from Munich,Blackadders, B-Land) direct after we (me and my girlfriend) arrived. I thought about changing my shower-gel, how did this guy find me that fast? We only met once in Halle!
Ok, there are more folks to come. I hope we find each other in this crowd. Mobile phones ready and waiting for the call.
Me and Jutta walked up and down the airstrip, i made some photographs, checked what to eat at lunchtime and enjoyed
the sun on a near meadow. Ok, lunchtime, still no call, where the hell are they? Hmm... 1st something to eat and a cool half liter Weizen-Beer fresh from the keg. Ok, another beer from the keg. Noone can stand on 2 legs, so another Weizen-Beer. 1pm, the show starts very soon, still no call and no vis on my pals.
We went back to Lodda and waited for the show to begin. A Bleriot, hmm, nice, nearly flew backwards when the wind gots stronger. A JU52, 3-engine-plane from WW2. Sounds magnificient. 130mph at max speed. A real racer :-))
A Antonov AN-2. Russian single engined Biplane. Slow and sluggish, but flies (more than my VW can do).
Some Harvard T6 were playing around a bit. Two YAK-11 took of. Oooh, this sounds nice, a deep smooth roaring. Great!
But then they came: P-51, P-40, Spitfire MkXIV (from Duxford) and (unbelievable!) a Bf109!
Ok, enough, here the pics.
 

To the right a JU-52 and an AN-2 on the runway
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Right now, the last of its kind airworthy in Europe. The fuselage out of german wartime-stores, the engine from france, a Hispano-Suiza! The nose isnt that nice as the original, but it flies. 2 more Bf109 will be ready soon, with original DB605 engines. They are from Messerschmit-Boelkow-Blohm (Mercedes) and as i know it will be G-Types (my favourite!).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Still silent. Even static they are beauties. A P-51 in "D-Day-Markings" and a P-40 Kittyhawk.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Mutant-Spit. Not a beauty like the MkI but the most powerful inline-engine build in that aera. The Spitfire MkXIV with Griffon-Engine!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The animal! 5-blade-Rotor!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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