A few more I just remembered:
- David Cundall
- Peter Vacher
- Victor Kislyi [1]
JohnB wrote:
Also, the guy who thought of looking for the warbirds in Lake Michigan.
I apologize, I missed this one when I read through for my previous comment. I don't know if its who you're thinking of (or if you're even thinking of anyone in particular), but you did just remind me of Allan Olson and Taras Lyssenko of
A&T Recovery.
JohnB wrote:
I'm still puzzled by RG.
What exactly has he done to preserve the P-38?
Despite the name of his group, they have seemingly done nothing to preserve the P-38. It still lies covered in beach sand...not the ideal environment for a historic 70 year-old piece of aluminum.
I understand that the group itself has said it's no longer an active project.
If I'm mistaken, please inform me.
AFAIK, you're not mistaken. I figured I would get a few comments on his inclusion.
Despite the title of the post, I intentionally made the criteria for inclusion somewhat broad. In my initial post, I did say:
Noha307 wrote:
it can really include anyone who has made a major impact in [the recording or preservation of] aviation history
As you suggested, I realize this may open the list up to becoming too big, but there's so much overlap between warbirds and the non-military aspects of aviation history that it's impossible to separate. Besides, look how long it is already!
I'm not saying I like Mr. Gillespie. However, was considering his "work" as a whole. I should have made that more clear. When you include the Amelia Earhart stuff, however wrong it may be, his influence really shows.
JohnB wrote:
I was going to put no self-nominations into my original post, but decided not to. Maybe I should have...
Dave Homewood wrote:
Liz Needham
Dave Homewood wrote:
Judy Pay
Courier Sportster wrote:
Jackie Cochran
Thanks for suggesting some women. The list is unfortunately
very male (and white), and while it'll probably stay that way for some time into the future, it's good to see a little bit of diversity. You reminded me of Sue Parrish
[1], who I learned of only recently.
Since somebody brought up Bob Hoover, it made me wonder if it would be worth mentioning Patty Wagstaff. Has she done anything warbird related? I only know of her as an air racer, but as evidenced by my comment on Tony LeVier above, it's clear that I can be wrong.
Ryan Keough wrote:
Bob Collings or Rob Collings
The similar names kinda made me question whether this was one or two people for a second there.
JohnB wrote:
Charles Schultz
Eh, I think that one's too much of a reach. Creative suggestion though.
bdk wrote:
Joe Baugher's database
I remember back before he had his own website. How long has his list actually been around?
Woodsy Airfield wrote:
Not too sure if any of these names are relevant to the subject, but I picked them off of an old log I kept in past....
I'm going to leave these off for now since there's not any context - unless, that is, someone can vouch for them.
Christer wrote:
Christer wrote:
It seems like Ray and Mark Hanna are missing from the list.
Still missing from your updated list!
Whoops! My bad! And it looks like I missed another comment as well. I guess I need to pay more attention!
I've added them below!
Here's the suggestions made since my last comment (and a few more I forgot):
Further Mentions- Sanders family
- Bill Klaers
- Alan Wojciak
- Jack Hardwick
- Mel Christler
- Morris Avery
- Dan Hawkins
- Gene Powers
- Dee Howard
- Lloyd Nolen
- Lefty Gardner
- John Muszala
- John Lane
- Tony Ritzman
- Joe Davis
- Warren Basler
- Stephen Grey
- Doug Champlin
- Howard Pardue
- Lyle Shelton
- Bill Destefani
- Nelson Ezell
- Doug Arnold
- Jeff Ethell
- Ray Hanna
- Mark Hanna
- Jackie Cochran
- Michael Potter
- Junior Burchinal
- Trevor Bland
- Sir Tim Wallis
- Ray Hanna
- Sir Peter Jackson
- Neville 'Shorty' Mines [2]
- Mont-y Armstrong
- Brendon Deere
- Warren Denholm
- Paul McSweeny
- Steve Cox
- Jay McIntyre
- Colin Smith
- Gene deMarco
- Tony Wytenburg [3]
- Graham Orphan
- John Smith
- Bill Reid
- Robyn Reid
- Martin Reid
- John Barry
- Sandy Currie
- Andrew Gormley
- Al Marshall
- Marty Nicholl
- Frank Parker
- Liz Needham
- Keith Skilling
- Dave Phillips
- Ian Whitney [4]
- Judy Pay
- David Lowy
- Ellisworth Getchell
- Lloyd Hamilton
- Mike VadeBonCoeur
- Bob Collings
- Rob Collings
- Matt Jolley
- Zane Adams
- Chris Henry
- Rob Morelli
- Andy Heins
- Mike Hartman
- Warren Denholm
- Colin Denholm
- Glyn Powell
- Rod Lewis
- Pat Rodgers
- Mike Kellnor
- Ray Moore
- Tom Stafford
- Harry Doan
- Dean Martin
- Dan McQue
So I'm about to drive myself crazy trying to keep track of all this. This forum setup doesn't lend itself well to scrolling through other comments. Anyway, that's a total of 82+ additional names right there!
If we add that to the 57 in my initial post, the 54+ in my previous summary, and the other 5 I have thought of since then; that's a total of
198+ entries!
I know that I haven't been including the short bios you guys have written (if you haven't realized by now, I'm pretty strict about the formatting), but don't let that stop you from adding them - they're very helpful since I haven't heard of most of these people.
I don't know what, if anything, I'll end up doing with all this information, but I have certainly learned a lot, and it will certainly be of use to someone in the future.
Anyway, once again, thanks to all for the suggestions and keep 'em coming!
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