Warbird Information Exchange

At least I think is would be different. I've only been on WIX for a year or so - if this is old hat please disregard. As much as I like the idea of the proposed contest in the sticky section, it's hard to imagine actually looking through the thousands of submitted photos and coming up with a "Best of Show" much less 13 winners.

What I propose is a "Who owned them then, where are they now" type of thing for the following composite picture from Oshkosh 1974:



It was my first year there and I was (unfortunately) shooting slides - as I recall, they taxied all the planes out, shut them down, and then talked about them a bit. Then someone fired a Very pistol and they all "scrambled". This must have taken a huge amount of time by today's airshow standards but I was in awe back then. Sorry about the width - it is obviously two prints (from scanned in slides) taped together, which I then took another digital photo of. Long way around, I know.

I'm pretty sure that I have identified most of these - there is one that I have narrowed down to two possibilities and another where I have no idea. Of course there are the 3 ex-FAG Mustangs at the end and I only have the N-number of one. I'm also pretty sure there are Wixers out there who know them all.

I do have individual photos of all of them but some are pretty crappy. For this reason, the "winner" would have to be determined by consensus. Not a real problem since the only thing at stake is bragging rights.

So...what do you think? I posted a lot of photos from OSH 2008 and then got into my old slides from Mundalein and a few other Museums last fall, but I haven't been able to put much time into WIX lately. (Missed a good dust-up, it seems) If this turns out to be dull & boring I'll let it die; otherwise I'll start posting the individual shots every few days.

I can post a scanned in table if needed (you fill in the blanks and repost it), or people can just list their answers. Complete answers would be:

N-number in 1974
Owner of record in 1974
N-number now (if still around)
What happened to it if it isn't
Owner of record now

Any takers?

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Chris

And extra credit if you still have a pair of those slacks sitting around the house.

Dang - my wife just threw mine out last week.

I'd settle for the ability to grow hair like that.

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Chris

Back then I could!

This is my brother Brad's response to the "photo contest":

Excellent start, Randy. Here's a few of the P-63: (Crappy quality, like I said)








Remember "The Red Devils"?

There was another Kingcobra there in '74 as well:



I haven't tried to ID this one yet.

I get a different read on the Hellcat & Wildcat, though. May just be N-number reassignments. Will post more in a few days.

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Chris

Surely this is 43-11719 (P-63F currently with CAF), no? Were any other "tall tail" P-63's flying in the 70's?

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

There's the 3 camo Mustangs, a Red nose (4th FG) Mustang, and then I believe Tom Wood's P-51. The bands on the nose look like Tom's, as they are pretty wide. And the checkers around the cowl are pretty big as well.



TC

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"There are two types of people here; airshow whores and airshow prostitutes. The whores, like you and I, do airshow stuff for free, whereas the prostitutes are paid" - Reg Urschler

Note - I started a new posting under the subject "OSH 74 Photo Quiz" and added a (small) prize. Sorry for any confusion!

Should have named this thread properly the first time.

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Chris