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Jack Cook
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Anyone out there remember John? Any stories or photos??
He was really a cool dude and a familar face out here until he was lost in that T-28 crash :(
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Apparently, at one time, he lived a dozen blocks from my house.
He may have ferried my plane from the 'south'.
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John's old Bearcat.. Half Moon Bay, circa 1972.

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Apart from the Bearcat he also owned several Mustangs in the 70s. N2051D, N11T, N6523D, and the pieces of N36FF which Plaskett later rebuilt into a TF. He also raced in Reno if I'm not mistaken. What went wrong in his T-28 accident?

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Where is his Bearcat now??

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T J Johansen wrote:
Apart from the Bearcat he also owned several Mustangs in the 70s. N2051D, N11T, N6523D, and the pieces of N36FF which Plaskett later rebuilt into a TF. He also raced in Reno if I'm not mistaken. What went wrong in his T-28 accident?

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Here's a few of I believe 11T, Near Half Moon Bay in 1974.

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And in Reno..

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And Fresno,

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What went wrong in his T-28 accident?

A&P screw up. They replaced all the oil lines and left one connector loose.
It came off in flight and all the oil dumped leading to catostraphic engine failure around a forest area :(

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Chris: Nice to see these old photos. Didn't you use to have a photo of B-23 N747M in the cool blue colors on you website?

Lynn: Bill Anders. This a/c went through the "who's who" in warbirds before he bought it.

Jack: Sh!tty deal!!! When did it happen? I remember reading about it when it occured, but years go by so fast I can't believe it at times.

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That was around Oct 2003 I'm thinking.
His Bearcat became Wampus Cat.

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T J Johansen wrote:
Chris: Nice to see these old photos. Didn't you use to have a photo of B-23 N747M in the cool blue colors on you website?


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Yup.. Intended on rebuilding the archive section when I had something blow up a few years ago, but I just never got around to it...

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Jack Cook wrote:
That was around Oct 2003 I'm thinking


Your right
http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20 ... 1880&key=1

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darn shame.., the NTSB report makes me think of what my father used to say...

'accidents just don't happen.., they are made to happen'.

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John used to put on great acrobatic displays with the P-51D and the T-28B 8)

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John raced his F8F and P-51 at Reno besides Sam Richardson's R-2000 YAK-11.
BTW in that Fresno photo on the ramp can be seen a Guardian ,
Bill Compton's F6F-3 N4965V and Jack Lenhardt's FM-2 N20HA. 8)

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Thanks for info...I must have read he'd crashed but I don't remember...strange. No memory.

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