Warbird Information Exchange

Bill G.
I remember Andrau Airport. My one and only experience with helos was flying out in a Guard Chinook from there to Fort Hood.

Canso42 Aircraftsman not 'corporal'

Steve,
The goose was not at Tamiami at the weeks hangar that fell. She was actually at Homestead General. The doors gave way and the 90+ winds pushed every airplane towards one wall. The goose was up on its tail and right wing pointing up. I remember when dads good friend had sent the pics and I wondered how I could climb up and retrieve one of the 3 NAF breather caps. Its previous owner Capt Al Chaney was a class act. All day he would muscle that airplane around the patern selling rides barnstormer style in the winter months in FLA. Got to fly right seat for over 30 min, what a beast but he had the best running Wrights I have ever seen.






I keep tabs on that old Tin Goose...she's now owned by Kermit weeks, but was trashed in a hangar collapse during Hurricane Andrew. She's been under long-term rebuild with Maurice Hovious for the past decade, but it's a low-priority project. Ironically, his shop is just a few miles up the road from me in Vicksburg, MI. He's also the same gentleman who supplied Gary with the material to make the floorboards for AM927.

I didn't get to fly over Lake Erie in her..they were touring her around FBOs in the midwest when I managed to score a ride.

As for the "amenities" offered by the Ford, here are a couple shots I took from the left seat of the EAA's 4-AT a couple of years ago (note the airspeed indicator!)

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

WOW I am the same age as Gary???????? Dam I am old:)

6 years old, dad put me in the front seat of the family N3N ( just restored). All I could see was the control movement, gauges move and the bottom half of a fuel tank.

Airshows, move to fla, more airshows, VAC, Wings of War, back to vermont, more N flying, more fly ins, history & a love of round motors.

HUH, aircraft maintenance, airlines, Jet fuel........turbine junk..................OH the HORROR....WHERE DID I GO WRONG?????

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

This one is easy. It was the summer of 1966 and I watched DEAN ORTNER perform his P-51 routine at Beaver County Airport in western Pennsylvania. Lefty Gardner was there too in his P-38 (N25Y). The following summer, with the help of my dad, we bought our first T-6, a "G" model N7197C. "Those were the days". JF

for as long as i can remember my father took me to fly in's (mainly point cook) . during the late 60s and early 70's the only flying warbirds we had were ryan stm's,tigermoth's and chippies etc,but we alway's whent through the raaf museum hangers,one of my earliest memories is with dads helpgoing over the me 262 that is now at the australian war memorial.
my father is a retired airframe engineer he worked for both comomwealth aircraft corporation and the government aircraft factory,building avon sabre's(still his favorite),mirage's nomad's and even got his name on a couple of f/a18's so i was fated to be hooked at a very young age,as the first public showing of the mirage (for those that worked on it) was at avalon airfield and i was only 6 months old!!! and according to my mother with all the noise that was made only feet from me i didnt cry once.
oddly these day's i prefer prop's to squirts .
paul
bill becarful somone is talking to your spit when your not there

This one's easy for me. Gotta be the Air Zoo Tigercat. First time I saw it fly, I was hooked. To see a twin-engine plane haul a$$ like is a beautiful thing...

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Matt

YELLOW AND BLACK P-51...I was 10 years old, 1967, and my dad took me to the Cleveland Air Races at Burke Lakefront Airport. Bob Hoover did his routine in his yellow and black Rockwell Mustang.....remember it like it was yesterday.

I used to watch World at War when I was a kid. I know its screwed up, but that is what I wanted to do from that day forward. (H3ll, somebodys got to do it.) I remember being bummed out when president Nixon was resigning, all of the channels had that, and World at War wouldn't be on that night. I used to love Baa Baa Black Sheep (I don't know when it became Black Sheep Squadron) and every war movie I could watch, and Baretta and SWAT.

The only air show I ever went to then, was an airshow at the ANG base in Portland when I was a kid. There was a UH1 I got to go into. An F-86 in super hippie colors, flowers and stuff. I got to check out the cockpit on it. A messerschmit trainer, just like the one in Great Escape. And there was a Hellcat. That was the coolest airplane ever. I got to check out the cockpit on it also. An F4 Phantom made passes. He pulled up right above us, going straight up. Very cool! The next morning I saw the paper, Oregonian, on the kitchen table, and the Hellcat crashed in Canby. I know where it was because I lived in Mollala when I was a littler kid. And there was the Bomber gas station in Milwaukie. Uncle Iyvle and Aunt Sharon lived in Milwaukie, and I always threw a fit if we couldn't go to the gas station when we were over there. I had all of the models. And blew all of them up.

Navy. A bud is a pilot. We started flying the T34 at the Barbers Point flying club. That was awesome. I did a whole picture spread of "Attack on Pearl Harbor". I gotta get those scanned one day.....

Today...
A zillion and a half years later. I live off the end of Moffett field, and decided to take a B-17 ride. (Collins, Jim Harley). Later that year, at the Moffett Airshow, I saw a T-28B for the first time, and asked the owner if there was a chance I could get a ride. The rest is history.

Long winded, I know...

I guess what did it for me, was Dan D and 242 Julliet. Otherwise, well, I would have a sh1tload more beer money now...

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