I Hear Chuckie's Gonna Fly

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:46 pm

I saw a pilot buddy of mine today that was on his way to Texas to fly Chuckie. How bout some of yall out that way give us a report on how everything goes.

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:38 pm

Flying to a new home on the Virginia coast, according to Scott Thompson's fantastic Aerovintage website

Cheers,
Richard

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:43 pm

RMAllnutt wrote:

Flying to a new home on the Virginia coast, according to Scott Thompson's fantastic Aerovintage website

Cheers,
Richard

Gotta have a test flight first, then if all goes well, it's off to VA. I have a lot of good memories of being at air show's with the Hosper's.

dors · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:24 pm

I am really looking forward to Chuckie coming east. Fuddy Duddy has been missed at east coast shows. Chuckie will fill that void nicely.

warbird1 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:25 pm **Posts:** 2760

Does anybody know when Chuckie's last flight was?

Nathan · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:44 pm

dors wrote:

I am really looking forward to Chuckie coming east. Fuddy Duddy has been missed at east coast shows. Chuckie will fill that void nicely.

The movie Belle has been based in Geneseo for a number of years now. But agree I miss Fuddy Duddy a lot!

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 10:52 pm

Robbie Stuart wrote:

RMAllnutt wrote:

Flying to a new home on the Virginia coast, according to Scott Thompson's fantastic Aerovintage website

Cheers,
Richard

Gotta have a test flight first, then if all goes well, it's off to VA. I have a lot of good memories of being at air show's with the Hosper's.

Who will have the honors of flying her? It will be grand to see her airborne again. I can imagine how much fun it was traveling with her to shows! Having had the privilege of doing that a number of times in a B-25, I think I can see how much you must have enjoyed it!

Cheers,
Richard

K5DH · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:04 am

warbird1 wrote:

Does anybody know when Chuckie's last flight was?

As I recall, it was February, 2008.

To quell the rumours. . .

We don't know when Chuckie will be leaving Fort Worth. No date has been decided upon yet. After she leaves FTW, she will be receiving significant restoration work. I don't know for sure who will be doing that work. She may go to the restorer first before heading to Virginia, or it may be the other way around. I don't believe that's been decided yet, either.

The first few flights will be maintenance check flights to complete the Annual, followed by check flights to get our pilots current. It's possible that other local flights will follow, but I don't have any definite information in that regard.

Don't worry, folks. We will keep you posted! When she flies, we will shoot pictures and possibly video.

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:01 pm

RMAllnutt wrote:

Robbie Stuart wrote:

RMAllnutt wrote:

Flying to a new home on the Virginia coast, according to Scott Thompson's fantastic Aerovintage website

Cheers,
Richard

Gotta have a test flight first, then if all goes well, it's off to VA. I have a lot of good memories of being at air show's with the Hosper's.

Who will have the honors of flying her? It will be grand to see her airborne again. I can imagine how much fun it was traveling with her to shows! Having had the privilege of doing that a number of times in a B-25, I think I can see how much you must have enjoyed it!

Cheers,
Richard

Ray Fowler, the Chief Pilot for Liberty Belle, should be in Texas to fly Chuckie. I have known Ray for a very long time, he IS good stick, & will do a good job.

Ztex · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:46 pm

Chickie flew this morning!
This was her first flight in @ 2-1/2 years.

I got to meet Jerry Yagen (nice fellow for sure!! ) Ray Fowler and Pat Mahaffey were the doing the flying with Bill Gorin doing the crew chief duties.
She ran beautifully! No squawks! It was like she had been flying every day.

They were going to fly more this afternoon.

Congrats to Bill, Pat, Steve, Scott and Ellen, Dean, John and all of the hard working crew that made this a successful flight!

RAMC181 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:51 pm

Well done all!

PB

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:10 pm

Thanks for the pics Zane. Congrat's to all involved!

Chuck Giese · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:57 pm

Good job all !!!! I forgot how beautiful she is in the air. Nice pictures.

APG85 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:25 pm

Great pictures. I know it's hard to maintain, but that NMF is awesome and looks so much better than silver paint...

Pat · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:54 pm

Ztex wrote:

Man, Mahaffey looks PO'd!

PS Kudos to the crew for making Chuckie's return to the air happen!

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