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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2017 2:46 am 
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All the 'Presidents' men.

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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2017 10:19 am 
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The Salis family in France to have owned and developped one of the nicest flying museum at La Ferté-Alais, starting collecting and saving planes before WWII, long time before the warbird movement started.

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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2017 12:45 pm 
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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2017 2:02 pm 
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Can you create another thread of "Self-Important Warbird People" and put my name on it? pop2


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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2017 3:41 pm 
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I will put you on this list, right next to my Self-Important Warbird People.
bdk and Mechanic Sgt. Andy Micklin…. :lol:

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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 3:29 pm 
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Looked through all the pages to this thread, and I didn't see any mention of the creator/benefactor of one of the largest "flying/flyable" warbird collections in the USA........James (Jim) Cavanaugh.


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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 4:54 pm 
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phil65 wrote:
I will put you on this list, right next to my Self-Important Warbird People.
bdk and Mechanic Sgt. Andy Micklin…. :lol:

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I'd be in great company then! I loved that character. :drink3:


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anybody who supports warbird, stuff, events, etc

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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 5:44 pm 
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I'll add a few:

Robert L. Waltrip -- Founder of Lone Star Flight Museum.
Tom Gregory Jr. -- Warbird pilot, also flew the Stearman under the overpass in Second Hand Lions.
Tom "Gumby" Gregory III -- Warbird and Heritage Flight pilot.
Charles "Tuna" Hainline -- Warbird and Heritage Flight pilot.
Mike Burke -- Warbird pilot, Tora lead.


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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 8:16 pm 
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I might have missed it....how about the owner{s) of this site?


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PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2017 11:52 am 
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Anyone mention Col Pay yet?

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PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2017 12:20 pm 
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What is the true criteria or requirements to be considered "important"?

Airshow attendee?
Warbird owner?
Number of warbirds owned?
Number of warbirds piloted?
Number of warbirds restored?
Author?
Internet presence?
Popularity?
Some combination of the above?

For instance, John Marlin restored and flew his own P-51 at Chino and is building a Martin Baker MB-5 replica in Reno. Is he important?

How about Fred Sebby? He was well liked, flew at Reno and in airshows, but was he important?

Is Tom Cruz important? He's certainly famous and owns/flies a P-51.

Cliff Robertson owned (and flew?) a Spitfire.

How about Jerry Miles? He owned and flew a couple of P-51s and T-6s, some with questionable ownership I'm told.

Enquiring minds want to know! ;-)


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PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2017 6:29 pm 
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how about Chuck Gardner...Jim Goolsby...Frank Hale...Mac MaCaulley (highest time B-17 Pilot ever)...so many people quietly flying warbirds and amassing a large amount time.

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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2017 10:19 pm 
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Simply owning and operating warbirds doesn't make one "important", it might, however, make one fortunate, happy, maybe even humbled a bit.

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