Thunder In The Sky, Auburn

[O.P.]

Dan Dugan invited me to go to the Auburn airshow a couple of weeks ago. I had a great time. The first night during the diner/dance thing they had a zero airstrike. There was dudes there with guns firing. After a couple of passes Evan Wolfe went after them in the "WellCat". The next day was cool. I got to talk to all kinds of bigshots, and they were all very nice to me. The next day was awesome, thats about all I can say. I got to be an airshow dude and hang out in the pilot lounge, have chow served, whiz indoors, freebies, go over the barriers, man it was cool.

A couple of things I learned there (not all my time was wasted being a complete poser)

1. After a zillion questions and great patience by the cool guy I was talking to, the only way I'm getting a ride in the Corsair, is if I buy it. That's cool. Come on SuperLotto!

2. Comfortably Numb (My current favorite Mustang). She didn't have a name when she came from England. The guys were having a couple ten in Hollister one night and figured it'd either be "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Comfortably Numb". They chose Comfortably Numb. Great Choice. I always figured David Gilmore named her.

3. (I know I'm getting this partially wrong Alan) Zero gee and such in the T-28, why not? Well it seems that there's an arm in the oil sump, and it seems that a lot of the sumps have never been touched, ever. Well if the backside of it's dented, and the arm sticks, you're screwed. I probably got this wrong, but, when I grow up and am a bigshot T-28 driver, I'll make sure all oil things are undented, or just not pull zero gees.

Meeting everyone again was cool. My highlight was the cat who had the T-28A, with the two bladed prop. I think he said he got the prop from SE Asia somewhere via Australia. Beatiful paint! Beatiful plane!

Thanks Dan for having me out again. Evan, Nice freakin show. You guys did an awesome job. Besides everything else, I like the name, Thunder In The Sky.

Long winded enough, pictures.

[Roger Cain]

Thanks for posting the pictures Orvis, I was back in MI at the time and missed the show (again!). Nice to see that the V-8 powered Seabee made it out here already.

Do you know where that HU-16 Albatross was from? Haven't seen that one around these parts before...............

[O.P.]

Hi Roger!

I don't know where it's from. I figured it was one of those Santa Rosa birds. Thats the only place I've seen them in that paint scheme personally. Welcome back Roger. Next stop, Salinas!

[Roger Cain]

Not a Santa Rosa bird that I'm aware of, although I did see a new one there at last weekends Wings Over Wine Country show. Next stop for me is the Reno Air Races..........

[airnutz]

Roger, OP, it looks like Bill DaSilva's Albatross, BuNo14162 has new paint?
Or, we got another with a clear bubble-nose.

Last edited by airnutz on Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Roger Cain]

I would have my doubts about DaSilva's plane, as he was listed as the single HU-16 for the Thunder Over Michigan show, which was the same weekend. He didn't make it though, but I doubt he would have come all the way out here instead. Also his plane wears a very authentic paint scheme, so I can't see changing it to this one. The mystery continues...........

[airnutz]

Perhaps your right Roger, maybe I'm grasping at glass bubbles. Ran into
this website a while back while surfing Albatross stuff...
www.airmargaritaville.net/wst_page8.php

After returning from work, I read your reply to my suggestion, so I ran
various websearch and came up with this from the Auburn Journal...last
paragraph says the Auburn ship is DaSilva's, but the reporter claims
he's from Carson City, Nevada now!
www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2005/08/ ... hunder.txt

Maybe he missed Thunder because he's "gone native" with a Buffet-band?
The thick plottens..onward thru the fog...

[B-29 Super Fort]

2. Comfortably Numb (My current favorite Mustang). She didn't have a name when she came from England. The guys were having a couple ten in Hollister one night and figured it'd either be "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Comfortably Numb". They chose Comfortably Numb. Great Choice. I always figured David Gilmore named her.

What was this Mustang named before I can't find it in the registry?

[O.P.]

2. Comfortably Numb (My current favorite Mustang). She didn't have a name when she came from England. The guys were having a couple ten in Hollister one night and figured it'd either be "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Comfortably Numb". They chose Comfortably Numb. Great Choice. I always figured David Gilmore named her.

What was this Mustang named before I can't find it in the registry?

Hi SuperFort!

I found it here,
http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/su ... 3339.shtml

[B-29 Super Fort]

2. Comfortably Numb (My current favorite Mustang). She didn't have a name when she came from England. The guys were having a couple ten in Hollister one night and figured it'd either be "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Comfortably Numb". They chose Comfortably Numb. Great Choice. I always figured David Gilmore named her.

What was this Mustang named before I can't find it in the registry?

Hi SuperFort!

I found it here,
http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/su ... 3339.shtml

Thanks Jack!

[Roger Cain]

Perhaps your right Roger, maybe I'm grasping at glass bubbles.

After returning from work, I read your reply to my suggestion, so I ran
various websearch and came up with this from the Auburn Journal...last
paragraph says the Auburn ship is DaSilva's, but the reporter claims
he's from Carson City, Nevada now!
www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2005/08/ ... hunder.txt

Maybe he missed Thunder because he's "gone native" with a Buffet-band?
The thick plottens..onward thru the fog...

That reporter had to have gotten his name from somewhere, so I tend to think you may have nailed this one. Thanks for the news update,

[Roger Cain]

Mystery solved, that is Bill DiSilva's aircraft, I found a picture of it on another website showing the BuN. 141262, which is his plane, N7025N. Looks like you were right after all airnutz. See the plane at: http://www.airshowpix.net/pages/thunder ... 81_jpg.htm