Frank Tallman / Paul Mantz - circa 1960 question

[Rob Mears]

I'm hoping there might be a slim chance that someone who frequents this board might have a tie to anyone that might have been associated with Frank Tallman's operations back during the 1960ish years.

I can't locate any living witnesses to his warbird activities during that time. Thanks for any info!

Rob Mears
SkyChrgr1@aol.com

[JBoyle]

Read Tallman's "Flying the Old Planes"...published by Doubleday, 1973.
It has Tallman's thoughts about restoring and (but mainly) flying some of the planes in his collection, everything from a SPAD, Nieuport, Fokker Dr1, to F4U, B-25, B-15, and P-40...one of his favorites.

Also Scott Thompson writes about Tallman's work on Catch 22 in his "B-25 in Civil Service.

Also, Tallman wrote about flying the Grumman Duck for an article in Flying magazine in 1972...check a library for back issues.

Last edited by JBoyle on Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:36 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Stoney]

I can only talk about Catch 22