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The Red TailP-51C MuCountry Music artist Aaron Tippin says that he and I are “airplane stupid.” That means that he, I and others who share this illness will stand on the hot asphalt for hours and watch biplanes, monoplanes, formation acts and warbirds fly back and forth, many executing similar, if not the same maneuvers several weekends each summer.14 • TWIN & TURBINEby Doug Rozendaal Photos by Max HaynesThe reality is that some of our friends and family grow weary of watching the aerial circus because we in the airshow business often fail to close the loop. Maybe air- shows could learn from television. CBS News 60 Minutes Producer Don Hewitt said the motto of that show was, “Tell me a story.”The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) owns a P-51C named“Tuskegee Airmen” with a dis- tinctive red tail, the defining sym- bol of the airplanes flown by the black fighter pilots of World War II. The airplane was restored and began flying to airshows in 2001. The Minnesota Wing of the CAF at KSGS airport in South St. Paul was restoring the Mustang and planned to outfit the airplane in the col- ors of the Tuskegee Airmen. TheJULY 2011s