Wings Over Houston Article

[skymstr02]

This article is in todays Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hea ... 47169.html

Last edited by skymstr02 on Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Tim Landers]

Thanks for the link to the article. I will have two members of the Doolittle Raid attending our autograph tent for the WOH airshow, Lt. Col. Dick Cole and M/Sgt. Ed Horton who was a radio op. and gunner on plane #10. We will be at Ellington on Fri. before the show with the LSFM B-25 for photo ops. and they are scheduled to be given a flight.

Tim Landers
WOH Legends and Heroes Autograph Tent Coordinator
http://www.wingsoverhouston.com/woh_att ... graph_tent

[RickH]

Dick Cole flew Tondelayo a few months back. Rob Collings was left seat and he said that it was like Lt. Col Cole had been flying B-25s all of these years without a layoff.

[airnutz]

I hope they get the runways and ramps are repaired in time for WOH! The
IJN attack on the field yesterday musta' caught the F-16's with their guard
down. I saw a B-25 was the sole defense Ellington could get in the air to fend
off the invading hoard. Luckily the scoundrels were routed in due course..

[RickH]

It will get worse before it gets better. The Guard starts losing jets in January. Pretty soon we'll have more fighters on the field than they do.

[Tim Landers]

Dick Cole flew Tondelayo a few months back. Rob Collings was left seat and he said that it was like Lt. Col Cole had been flying B-25s all of these years without a layoff.

Dick told me about that and said it was "like riding a bike, but with training wheels"

[Bill Greenwood]

Those Doolitle guys are at the top of the ladder as for a cool heads and brave service.

[airnutz]

It will get worse before it gets better. The Guard starts losing jets in January. Pretty soon we'll have more fighters on the field than they do.

Yeah...Rick, I'm gonna' miss the "sounds of freedom" in the AM around here.
Sometimes those kids are really pouring the coals to 'em on a banking
climb direct overhead as they head south toward the Gulf.

[RickH]

Somehow I don't think we're gonna get the same feeling when a Predator drones over !

[Canso42]

Tim, sounds like a great lineup so far. Who else may be there in the heroes tent? I'd like to get Dick Cole's autograph on a painting of "Early Launch" in an aviation art book I recently got at Barnes & Nobles.
I feel sorry for non-warbird people. We get to meet a truly impressive group of real American Heroes in vintage av.

Doug Ratchford, LSFM
Canso42

[Elroy13]

They are showing a F-15 Demo with PYRO!!
Also Glacier Girl & Ol'927!!

[RickH]

I heard that the C-5, B-52, C-17, and KC-135 have cancelled. Gonna be a lot of holes on the ramp if that's true.

[airnutz]

Somehow I don't think we're gonna get the same feeling when a Predator drones over !

Hmmm...yes, the "drone of freedom" doesn't really elevate the blood pressure does it?