On the way home from work, I turned the corner at Basin Road to Rt 13 rounding the curve around the Wilmington Airport when I spotted an aircraft in the distance. Over the landing lights at Hare's corner, it was just about a mile away. The airplane looked familiar but it wasn't the C-130's and it was too big to be a biz jet. It landed and went out of sight behind all of the buildings that totally block the view of the runway from the road. I was curious but decided to just keep heading home. Just then, something caught my eye up and to the left. I couldn't believe what I saw but a B-24 Liberator landing over my head. That's when I decided to turn around and find out what was going on at the airport. When I pulled into the arport parking lot, I saw handwritten signs for "Wings of Freedom" tour taped to a lightpost and followed them into a parking lot behind the airport.

Parked on the tarmac were the B-17 and the B-24. The engines were off and the planes were empty... done for the day. So I pulled the camera out and walked around the aircraft until the organizers looked like they were ready to go home. I'm sure they had had a long day so I took one last shot and walked back to the truck. As is typical on any shoot, the last image was the best one of the bunch.

You can follow the barnstorming warbirds by clicking on the Wings of Freedom link above.