F3F alive again....

Baldeagle · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:34 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-XNQt9 ... ata_player

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Dan K · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:48 pm

Most-excellent news! Thanks for sharing.

Any word on first flight?

Stephan Wilkinson · **Joined:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:23 am **Posts:** 699

subscribing...

JohnTerrell · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:28 pm

What a great sight and sound! In due time, here's to expecting some brilliant air-to-air photos over the Sonoma Valley.

Pogo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:15 pm

This the ex-LSFM bird?

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:40 pm

Pogo wrote:

This the ex-LSFM bird?

Yes

CH2Tdriver · **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:57 pm

Awesome news. How many were made total? There's this one, Weeks, and the Friedkins examples. Wasn't there one more?

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 987

Outstanding. Simply outstanding. Beautiful aircraft.

Chappie

Kyleb · **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:35 pm

Gorgeous aircraft. But seemingly blind as a bat with that big fuselage and two wings in the pilot's FOV.

It would have scared me to death trying to land one on a carrier...

Stephan Wilkinson · **Joined:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:23 am **Posts:** 699

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How many were made total?

Herb Tischler nade four. Three were originally bought by Tom Friedkin and one went to Doug Champlin, who initiated the project after his original--i.e. real--two-seat F3F caught fire and Champlin and his passenger, who happened to be my acquaintance Budd Davidson--had to bail.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Stephan Wilkinson wrote:

and Champlin and his passenger, who happened to be my acquaintance Budd Davidson--had to bail.

I'm pretty sure D. Champlin wasn't one of the bailees.

RobC · **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:06 pm

I'm pretty sure that the pilot was Gene Chase. I KNOW that the passenger was a guy named Randy Beloff. It was his first airplane ride. Since the plane was on fire when they bailed out, I reckon the two seater now flying bears about as much resemblence to the original one as Scat VII does to its namesake.

Baldeagle · **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:44 pm

Pilot was Gene Chase, passenger Randy Beloff as stated above.

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Stephan Wilkinson · **Joined:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:23 am **Posts:** 699

That's interesting...I'm sure you guys are right about who the passenger was, I've somehow gone through the decades thinking it was Davisson, and I really don't know why, now that I look back on it. Maybe he wrote about it...

Stephan Wilkinson · **Joined:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:23 am **Posts:** 699

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I reckon the two seater now flying bears about as much resemblence to the original one as Scat VII does to its namesake.

I don't think there was ever any attempt to suggest otherwise. The four airplanes built by Tischler were basically replicas.

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