Re: Jack who is this? ...
Sun May 22, 2011 5:21 pm
Zachary wrote:Not naming names, but I heard another famous pilot tell that to a young kid of about 10 or 11 during my first trip to Oshkosh in 1996. That was the first inkling I had of his true character.
Zack
Not one with the initials CY by any chance?
Re: Jack who is this? ...
Mon May 23, 2011 4:52 pm
tj! 
Re: Jack who is this? ...
Mon May 23, 2011 6:22 pm
Steve Nelson wrote:How could a Chevette bring down Pappy's big Dodge Van!
Well, I once outran a Corsair in a Mustang.
Seriously..about 20 years ago I was driving down the freeway in a 1990 Ford Mustang, when I passed a flatbed truck hauling an F4U (it was just east of Kalamazoo, but I have no idea where the aircraft came from or where it was going..it was a partial ariframe stripped to bare metal.) And my little Mustang only had a four-banger!
N
At that time period it might have been Harry Tope's Corsair, later to become "Marine's Dream".
Jerry
Re: Jack who is this? ...
Mon May 23, 2011 7:42 pm
Well, I believe there was a four-blade prop strapped on the trailer, but I couldn't tell if the airframe was a -4 or later or not (IIRC it was just a stripped out fuselage/center section.) It was headed east on I-94, and would have been sometime between the summer of 1991 and fall of 1993 (the time frame in which I owned that car.)
SN
SN
Re: Jack who is this? ...
Mon May 23, 2011 7:46 pm
Jerry O'Neill wrote:At that time period it might have been Harry Tope's Corsair, later to become "Marine's Dream".
Jerry
Are you sure you do not mean Ray Dieckman?