CF visit to Oxford, CT: Sunday
Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:43 pm
Feeling more like a groupie for a band, rather than a volunteer/amateur historian, we at the CASC have been very fortunate to have been allowed to set up a table at the Collings Foundation stops here in Connecticut. Our little booth was well represented on Saturday and Sunday at Oxford, gaining some donations and mainly getting the word out to the locals that there is ANOTHER air-museum in Connecticut. Sunday also happened to be my birthday and I organized a small private flight with one of the newer volunteers at our museum.
Sooner than you could say Piper Aero we were airborne and flying!
Ben was most accommodating with having my girlfriend and myself go up for an hour and a half, and letting us get a more interesting view of Connecticut. The fun part was that Devin didn't know she was going on a plane ride until 5 minutes before!
You can still kind of see the fear and apprehension in her eyes!
Caught in a steep bank.
Ahhhhhhh, good ole Connecticut. Takes you like twenty minutes to fly right through it!
My Good side.
After the flight and a little later in the day (In between sessions behind the museum table, spreading the word about our museum)
Doing my part to recreate a little history.
And of course the lovely Miss Lawless. My 2 favorite things in the world in the same picture!
Then a little later I was whisked away aboard the greatest bomber the world had ever seen!
Grandfathers office, 60 years ago. Wonder what he was thinking?
The somewhat spacious nose.
That's is for now, Sorry I wasn't more pic heavy on the B-17 and P-51. Thanks to JimH for that amazing little excursion when the light was just right! As far as continuing to follow the Collings Foundation on to Groton is still up in the air. Driving wise the airport is about an hour and 15min away and we don't know if that's going to be worth it. Still the members at the CASC are very grateful to the Collings Foundation for letting us set up a table and inform the public about our little dysfunctional museum.
As always Keep Em' Flying,
Christopher
Sooner than you could say Piper Aero we were airborne and flying!
Ben was most accommodating with having my girlfriend and myself go up for an hour and a half, and letting us get a more interesting view of Connecticut. The fun part was that Devin didn't know she was going on a plane ride until 5 minutes before!
You can still kind of see the fear and apprehension in her eyes!
Caught in a steep bank.
Ahhhhhhh, good ole Connecticut. Takes you like twenty minutes to fly right through it!
My Good side.
After the flight and a little later in the day (In between sessions behind the museum table, spreading the word about our museum)
Doing my part to recreate a little history.
And of course the lovely Miss Lawless. My 2 favorite things in the world in the same picture!
Then a little later I was whisked away aboard the greatest bomber the world had ever seen!
Grandfathers office, 60 years ago. Wonder what he was thinking?
The somewhat spacious nose.
That's is for now, Sorry I wasn't more pic heavy on the B-17 and P-51. Thanks to JimH for that amazing little excursion when the light was just right! As far as continuing to follow the Collings Foundation on to Groton is still up in the air. Driving wise the airport is about an hour and 15min away and we don't know if that's going to be worth it. Still the members at the CASC are very grateful to the Collings Foundation for letting us set up a table and inform the public about our little dysfunctional museum.
As always Keep Em' Flying,
Christopher
Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:00 pm
They just ran a clip on MSNBC, a very brief clip of about 30 seconds, of the 3 birds mentioning 7 WW2 vets getting a ride and the planes touring the country. Then went on to run a 3 minute segment on shelter dogs......I KNOW I would have preferred flipping those two around.......pound puppies are always with us......vets flying the CF Birds....C'Mon!!!!!!!!!! Why did they even bother sending a film crew?!?!?
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:34 pm
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned the whole media thing in this county is screwed up. You have to look outside the country to find good news reports about things related to WIX:
http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/mosquito-bom ... 1374/video
http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/mosquito-bom ... 1374/video
Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:33 pm
Ummmm,...just a question....that photo of the Connecticut countryside/ocean....that would'nt happen to be over New London, would it? I as because it all fits into place.....Sub base lower left corner, Coast Guard academy and piers right side, bridges, and what looks like the General Dynamics plant up on the left hand side....I ask, because if it is, I served on a ship in the Coast Guard exactly opposite where the Dynamics plant is...and have'nt seen it since...
Mark
Mark
Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:52 pm
corsair166b wrote:Ummmm,...just a question....that photo of the Connecticut countryside/ocean....that would'nt happen to be over New London, would it? I as because it all fits into place.....Sub base lower left corner, Coast Guard academy and piers right side, bridges, and what looks like the General Dynamics plant up on the left hand side....I ask, because if it is, I served on a ship in the Coast Guard exactly opposite where the Dynamics plant is...and have'nt seen it since...
Mark
You betcha!
Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:25 pm
Ahhh, good old New London....Chucky's chicken.....the ghost 'Ernie' on the New London lighthouse.....Trident subs being built....the Coast Guard cutter 'Eagle'....I understand the sub base where we used to fuel up is now a toxic disaster (looks like they have booms in the water in the photo)...I was based at the Naval underwater Systems center immediately opposite the General Dynamics plant on an old rusty but loveable tub named the Evergreen...her claim to fame was being the command ship for the rescue of passengers from the Andrea Doria...all seems like a lifetime ago.
Mark
Mark