Warbird Information Exchange

He had a lot of Fougas too!

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book

Certainly a better use of Moxie than drinking it.

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

I remember a Tracker at Geneseo.
I heard over the radio that the FAA wanted to talk to him about that last pass.
"That was a missed approach" came the reply.

Andy

Dean, a real original!

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Last I heard he was thinking about writing his memoirs. I really hope he does!

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book

That's neat footage. Did he ever tear any of those aircraft up? Just curious .

Dean once told me, when I was interviewing him for Air & Space, that before he went for a flight in his MiG-21, he'd call the BTV tower and say, "I will be departing to the south at about 1300. I will return at 1345 and enter downwind at 250 knots. I will fly base and initial final at 250 knots. I will NOT accept a wave-off. I WILL be landing out of that approach."

Not much fuel in a -21.

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A man's got to know his limitations.

My favorite Dean Martin is story is of the time he decided to drop a couch from the bomb bay of his B-25 into the Green Mountains of VT. Everything went well with the drop until a few days later one of his friends conspired to have someone call Dean's office pretending to be from the FAA!

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.