Wings Over Houston 1988

Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:29 am

Here is WOH 1988.

WOH 1987 will be posted later. I have 306 scanned photos to go through to get ready to post (not all of course)

bill word

Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:41 am

Nice! Whose Starfighter was that?

Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:13 pm

The jets belonged to Combat Jets Museum. The collection was later donated en masse to the EAA. Warbird Heritage A-4 was part of the collection.

Lone Star was just beginning to make their presence felt.

Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:28 pm

Thanks for posting some GREAT pics.

Ellington appears to have sunk a couple of feet.

Here's hoping Pete Howard is in Warbird Heaven.

Without using my whole jar of poetry wax...

The only way we are going to make memories this good is to GET ON WITH IT... See y'all at the usual haunts.

SPANNER

Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:48 pm

Thunder Chicken!

Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:50 pm

That Thunder Chicken art is GREAT! :lol:

Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:36 pm

Whose Norseman is that and is it still around?

Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:51 pm

airnutz wrote:Whose Norseman is that and is it still around?

It was with Lone Star as N13340 . It is now CF-BHU in Canada.

Jim

Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:54 pm

The Canadian registration was cancelled 05/07/2007. Last owner Grass River Lodge, Manitoba.

Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:16 pm

Thanks guys..the weather changed so I had some time to run a search. A good site dedicated to Parachutes Inc.
According to them, 43-35432 was the first Norseman they purchased. She had quite a history, scroll down about 3/4
of the page to aircraft #3...
http://projectpi.skydiveworld.com/PI-norseman.htm

Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:46 pm

I believe that may be Jeff Ethell sitting in Baby Duck. That's about the time he was flying it.

Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:20 pm

Two thoughts:

1. I LOVE the way they "snuck" CAF there onto Carolyn. Never noticed that before. Wish there was a way they could do things more subtly, but still prominently like that in lieu of the wings (and no, I'm not one of the mad bashers).

2. I'm kind of thinking that L-6 is the one that used to be at Cannon with the Alamo Liaison Squadron, but I never saw it in person myself that I can remember right now. Is anyone able to confirm that?

Ryan

Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:32 pm

Wonderful, Bill! Keep 'em coming!

Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:41 pm

The L-6 was privately owned by an ALG member, spent half its time in S.A. and half in Brownsville. The ALG bird was similar to #33, and I hadn't finished mine quite yet. I flew both of the other two, and I think I flew #33 home that year as there had been an emergency in the owners family and they left early.

Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:03 am

Cuz,

You THINK you flew #33 home? I guess it's true that the memory is the SECOND thing to go! LOL

Love ya!