Personal Warbird Records

[Jack Cook]

I'm curious if any of you have set any records with your aircraft? Not serious stuff just everyday stuff that sorta goes sideway.
For example, our B-25 recorded the most number of noise complaints at our airport in 1 day. 67 in a 2 hour period while Ted Stewart was prepping one of our pilots for his type check. A go around also set off a bunch of car alarms at KMart off the end of 13.

[tom d. friedman]

i can state that as a kid i blew up, destroyed, or shot a record number of model warbirds in ohio!!

[Matt Gunsch]

We used to gauge our Cactus Squadron practices by the number of cars that stopped along side the road to watch, I think the most was 20, which was alot as it was not a very heavily traveled road at the time.

[Jerry O'Neill]

I don't know if this counts, but I hit the armored car at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome twice while acting as bombardier in Dick King's Tiger Moth back in the mid-1980's!
The armored car was also moving at the time, with Cole Palen riding on top!
It might not be a record, but it's a record for me!!!!!
Jerry

[tom d. friedman]

airdales, i'd say that you have major bragging rights!!!

[mustangpilot]

Brad and I hold the record in a C-123 for burning the most gas and hauling the most passengers in a 2 year period without ever leaving the ground.

[Forgotten Field]

Most time and hours transitioning to an L-5- 40 hours.

Stop and start, stop an start. Instructor lost his medical. Instructoor transitioning a guy in a Seneca. Intercom problems. Com Problems. Transponder problems. Magneto problems. Blown tailwheel. 2 month annual, out of annual. Moving from grass to hardball (that was the worst).

It's all true. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

[T33driver]

Every year at my airport, I burn the most fuel going nowhere in particular...sometimes I make it over the next county.

[Beachy]

I'm wondering if we got the most number of complaints by the same person for the SNJ-6s my old gang flies..........Same guy, all the time. Lived off the end of 33 (if I remember correctly) and used to complain about us waking up his baby all the time. Just us, though....not the Spit, the Mustangs, the 17, the 25s, or any of the numerous corporate jets in & out daily. Just us!

[bdk]

Not quite there yet, but I am positive I'm working up to the worlds longest T-6 restoration...

[Stoney]

NATA had 107 T-6s at Kenosha for the 50th in 1988, we flew a 5 and a 0 at OSH and I was part of the 0. NATA had 108 T-6s at Kenosha in 1998. I was in a flight of 16 B-25s in a right eschelon for the break in 1969, there has not been a larger formation of B-25s since.

[Jerry O'Neill]

Stoney;
You are so right about the T-6's 50th in Kenosha back in 1988.
On one of those practice days with the large formation, I was in an SNJ with Jackie Dankos, off of Walt Olrich's right wing and was able to look back at 54 or so snarling P&W's!
It was amazing!
A huge highlight for me!

I would've like to been there in 1969. That must have been something.
Jerry

[rwdfresno]

I was part of the crew who launched the first two civilian B-25s from the deck of a US NAVY aircraft carrier for the 50th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. Sadly only the pilots and a flight "engineer" (owners) were allowed to be on-board, but at least I got to be on deck and watch it. A few years later my father was able to be on-board one of the bombers during a 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.

[jaybird]

Research shows that I think about a Corsair every 8 seconds....