Skyraiders and TBMs at Breckenridge

Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:41 pm

various years

Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:05 am

Thanks for posting brad.............got a question..........the #33 TBM, is that connie edwards???? or I should say, his kid flying. The tri color, is that 88HP?????

Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:32 pm

TBM 401SL was owned and flown by John Kelley and his family at this time, I think. That's John under the nose as best I can tell. What year was this, if you know?

Randy

Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:44 pm

Randy,

Yes that is John under the nose. I had just talked to him about the airplane before I took the picture. I'm 99% sure this was 1985.

N3NJeff,

#33 is Connie's TBM. It was being flown by his son Tex. The tri-color TBM is 88HP back when Howard still owned it.

Brad

Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:46 pm

I'm not sure Connie Edwards still owns TBM #33 today, but it was owned by him back in 1990. That year, I was fortunate enough to fly in Coke Stuart's TBM in a 3 TBM formation at OSH with Connie's son, Tex, off our wing. He was seventeen at the time and the other TBM was "401" being flown by seventeen year-old Derek Dodds!
We flew to Lake Lawn for the lunch where I proceeded, at Coke's insistence, to play George Bush (Sr.) with a rubber Bush mask at the luncheon, complete with Secret Service agents!
We use to have a lot of fun!
Thanks for sharing the pics.
They brought back some memories.
Jerry

Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:22 am

I have not been out to Connie's in 3 or 4 years, but the TBM was still there then. Needed a little air in the tires and TLC tho.

Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:50 am

I was out there last month, they've still got the TBM tucked into the big hangar
Jason

Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:17 am

I flew with Tex while we were in Kenosha for the T-6 gathering. We took part in the flour bombing contest, but were disqualified when they no longer could find the target after our run. We did not know we had to use the lunch sandwich baggies only, we had 100+ lbs of flour in the bomb bay :lol:

. After our run all I saw was a huge cloud of white over the target.

I currently take care of the ex Coke Stuart's TBM. Now owned by Hans Lauridsen and currently on display with the CAF at Falcon Field.

Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:40 am

Matt;
Does Coke's old Avenger still come standard with the Rubber George Bush Mask?
I used it the first time in 1989 at Manchester, NH when Coke brought the Avenger up for the show. After that show, I gave it to Coke and used it whenever I ran in to him. Great guy and sorely missed.
Jerry

Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:37 am

Matt Gunsch wrote:I flew with Tex while we were in Kenosha for the T-6 gathering. We took part in the flour bombing contest, but were disqualified when they no longer could find the target after our run. We did not know we had to use the lunch sandwich baggies only, we had 100+ lbs of flour in the bomb bay . After our run all I saw was a huge cloud of white over the target.

We did that with the T-28C one time using the speed brake as a bomb bay.

Sure does piss off the scorers standing out there near the target. :shock:

Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:08 pm

Same here, you can get 15 2lbs flour bags in a T-28 speedbrake. 250KIAS at abt a 30-45 deg dive angle and they just abt come straight down... the trick is to sell it on the first pass by just dropping a single bag from the cockpit
Jason

Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:32 pm

jgrifft6 wrote:Same here, you can get 15 2lbs flour bags in a T-28 speedbrake. 250KIAS at abt a 30-45 deg dive angle and they just abt come straight down... the trick is to sell it on the first pass by just dropping a single bag from the cockpit
Jason

We did it in the B-25 a couple of times with 250 lbs of flour in 2lb bags sitting on the doors. It was pretty spectacular!