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Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:34 am
Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:48 pm
Most-excellent news! Thanks for sharing.
Any word on first flight?
Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:42 pm
subscribing...
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.
Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:15 pm
This the ex-LSFM bird?
Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:40 pm
Pogo wrote:This the ex-LSFM bird?
Yes
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?
Sat Sep 01, 2012 6:50 pm
Outstanding. Simply outstanding. Beautiful aircraft.
Chappie
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...
Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:39 pm
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.
Sat Sep 01, 2012 10:33 pm
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.
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.
Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:44 pm
Pilot was Gene Chase, passenger Randy Beloff as stated above.
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Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:38 am
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...
Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:41 am
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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