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Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Tue Jun 23, 2015 4:38 pm

He had a lot of Fougas too!

Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Tue Jun 23, 2015 6:33 pm

Certainly a better use of Moxie than drinking it.

Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:02 pm

I remember a Tracker at Geneseo.
I heard over the radio that the FAA wanted to talk to him about that last pass.
"That was a missed approach" came the reply. 8)

Andy

Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:18 pm

Dean, a real original!

Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:29 am

Last I heard he was thinking about writing his memoirs. I really hope he does!

Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:39 am

That's neat footage. Did he ever tear any of those aircraft up? Just curious .

Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:16 pm

Dean once told me, when I was interviewing him for Air & Space, that before he went for a flight in his MiG-21, he'd call the BTV tower and say, "I will be departing to the south at about 1300. I will return at 1345 and enter downwind at 250 knots. I will fly base and initial final at 250 knots. I will NOT accept a wave-off. I WILL be landing out of that approach."

Not much fuel in a -21.

Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:26 pm

Col. Rohr wrote:
DH82EH wrote:I remember a Tracker at Geneseo.
I heard over the radio that the FAA wanted to talk to him about that last pass.
"That was a missed approach" came the reply. 8)

Andy


Ahh yes Great White Father and his COD


:lol:

Re: Crazy New Englander with his DH Venoms

Thu Jun 25, 2015 5:27 am

My favorite Dean Martin is story is of the time he decided to drop a couch from the bomb bay of his B-25 into the Green Mountains of VT. Everything went well with the drop until a few days later one of his friends conspired to have someone call Dean's office pretending to be from the FAA!
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