Ray Fowler & the Liberty Foundation on Warbird Radio

[warbirdfanguy]

Liberty Foundation Chief Pilot was on WarbirdRadio.com again today talking about the Foundation's B-17, Liberty Belle, and their newly restored P-40. Super guy and it is a great listen....

They are currently in Kansas City... And here are their upcoming stops for both airplanes... You can follow them on their website & on Facebook..
www.libertyfoundation.org
http://facebook.libertyfoundation.org


May 21-22 Kansas City, MO
Charles B Wheeler Airport (MKC)
Signature Flight Support FBO
10 Richards Road
Kansas City, MO 64116



May 28 Omaha, NE Area
Council Bluffs Municipal Airport (CBF)
Advanced Air FBO
16801 McCandless Lane
Council Bluffs, IA 51503



May 29 Des Moines, IA
Des Moines International Airport(DSM)
Signature Flight Support FBO
5600 Fleur Drive
Des Moines, IA 50321



June 4-5 Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
St. Paul Downtown Airport(STP)
Signature Flight Support FBO
515 Eaton Street
St. Paul, MN 55107

[warbirdfanguy]

Also, News Reel from Kansas......

http://videos.kansascity.com/vmix_hoste ... d=88776741

[WarbirdRadio]

Thanks for the kind words about the show. Ray's always fun to have on. ~Matt

[p51]

I kept reading that name over and over, thinking, “I swear I know this name from somewhere” then it hit me. In 1996, I got a ride in a P-51 with Ray at the controls in formation with the Collings B-17 and 24. The odd thing was to pay for the ride (the paying person had wiped out on a motorcycle just before Ray was to leave, leaving him with an open back seat), I agreed to paint some nose art onto the back of an A-2 jacket which I was going to include in the deal as I knew a vendor I could get one from that wouldn’t break the bank. I gave him all my contact info (address and phone # in those pre-internet days), then I never heard from him again. You usually never hear from people when you’re expecting something from them, but I always thought it was odd he never got back to me to get something he wanted that I was fully prepared to do for him. Oh well, I guess he’d lost my info somewhere along the way and I didn’t have his info (because it didn’t occur to me I wouldn’t hear from him). After a Google search, I see how active he is in warbirds still. I’m surprised I never bumped into him again after that, but I was never much for schmoozing with modern pilots (I usually reserved my socializing for pilots who flew in WW2).