Who's Your Most Memorable Warbird Guy????

[Jack Cook]

Mine is Jerry Janes for reasons to numerous to mention

[RickH]

Gosh, Jack, that's a pretty broad question, where would one start ?

[Jack Cook]

Easy you can only have one favorite. Who just leaps out of your mind.
Not not really talking collectors, big $$$ or the guy with the mostest.
I've known a few that make the short list like Bud Granley, Lars the Swede and Crash Williams.

[Airlift48]

Jimmy Rossi. Man he was one heck of a guy!

[K5DH]

Howard Pardue.

D.

[JohnH]

Elmer Ward, one of the most amazing people I've ever met.


John

[JohnH]

Elmer Ward, one of the most intelligent people I've ever met.


John

[rwdfresno]

Elmer Ward, Clay Lacey, Ed Schneff were some of my most interesting encounters however one character I will never forget is Charles "Uncle Bud" Crosby. He was a member of the SoCal CAF for many, many years. He also used to work the fuel truck at the CAF big CAF show in Midland. He was a friend for many years and sadly passed away a number of years ago.

The most talented person I ever met was a guy named Tim Cruz who could build absolutely anything from scratch. He unfortunately passed away a few years ago as well.

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[Lynn Allen]

Ted Contri for giving me my first Mustang ride and Clay Lacy, Nelson Ezell, Howard Parduel, Lefty Gardner, Ed Messick, the Chino group and many many more.....

Lynn

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[n5151ts]

George Roberts, Elmer Ward, Gordon Beeson, Lefty Gardner, Bob Love, Dan Martin, Ted Contri, John Penny, John Paul, all the chino whiz kids...they all taught me a lot

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[RickH]

See Jack, you can't name just one !! Howard Pardue, Ollie Crawford, Art McKinley, Connie Edwards, Nelson Ezell, and the list goes on and on and on,.....

[oz rb fan]

guido zuccolli

[tom d. friedman]

walter soplata & bob odaagard {how ever you spell it!!}

[Trey Carroll]

Hinton

[mustangdriver]

Gary Austin. Meeting him at Oshkosh last year, and having him take the time out of a crazy day to come and talk with us, was really something special. I got a great photo of Bear, myself and him by the nose of the B-24. It was a very cool day for me. Also the cook out at Zach's house and all of the great people I met there was just really great. I don't know if that counts to you all, but those moments mean alot to me.