Warbird Information Exchange

I was at an airshow, standing by the crowd fence and talking to a nice looking woman about all the planes flying around. She seemed impressed by my knowledge.

There were a couple of other guys standing nearby. I guess they were listening to what I was saying too, because they were smiling at me.

Well one of the big planes flew by and I didn’t know what kind it was. I saw that it had large identification markings on the side, so I was able to tell the woman it was an F-1F1 airplane.

Right at that moment the two guy starting laughing like crazy and walked away. Just what the heck was that all about?

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Guy's were just jealous because they don't know how to read simple English. Not smart enough to read the side of a big old airplane.

Why didn't you use the generic, B-1RD?
Jerry

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They probably were thinking you were talking smack to impress the lady, that is all.

Guys like that are too stupid to know what plane is which, I would not lose too much sleep over it.

I dont know everything, but when I see a plane I know, I like to discuss it with others, it stirs up conversation about them.

Especially, when it is younger folks, not that I am that old, but I feel like I need to stir up conversation, just to bring up the historical significance of the aircraft and to pay my little bit of homage to those who served before me for freedom.

WOW, I will get off my soapbox now

Again, I would not lose any sleep over them peckerwoods reactions.

You definitely are not the first to call that big plane F1F1. In fact, in a similar story, when the Collings Foundations first started flying their B-24, they made a stop at Falcon Field in Mesa Az. after departing for Palm Springs, they lost an engine and returned. While Gene and Eddie Packard built up a new engine for them, the plane underwent some additional maintenance on our ramp at the CAF. An "older" gentleman (certainly old enough to have lived through WWII or at least seen 12o"clock High a few hundred times) strolled by one day and remarked that he recognized the B-24 out on the ramp and knew what it was. But he was curious as to what kind of plane was sitting in our hangar?(B-17 Sentimental Journey). I honestly didn't quite know how to answer and I really believed a punch line was forthcoming but none came so I figured I'd provide one myself. I told him that the B-17 was an escort fighter with all the guns bristling from the turrets and such and they were sent up to protect the B-24's. The gentleman swallowed my story without question but guilt set in and I had to spill the truth. So I took him over to the B-17 and filled him in on everything I knew about it and it's place in history and gave him the tour deluxe. I never saw the man again but I learned right then and there that we can never take the education aspect of these aircraft for granted and never be afraid to tell history as it actually happened. Remember, if we don't, who will?

chris you hit the nail on the head, & thats what keeps the warbird movement alive!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Chris,
I was out there working on the B-24. I was the guy that slept in the Ford Granada. After we finished, I helped fuel the 24 and was told to get a sweatshirt from the PX, then I was told that I was going to Palm Springs with them. We got there late at night, grabbed a bite to eat at a sponsers house, then he had his pilot fly 3 of us back to Falcon Field in his Sennaca.

It might be too short of notice, but I am meeting one of the TBMs WWII pilots at Falcon at 9am, if you can be there I think it will be a fun morning.

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I'll be there buried inside the MiG-15. Dig me out!!!!

OK, I’ll confess this was an April Fools prank at my expense. It goes back to an old joke about a blowhard at a show telling anyone within earshot how much he knew about everything.

I was just going to let this thread go until I started seeing replies of sincere support, which was not my intent.

Overall, I think this demonstrates the high caliber of people that frequent WIX, with the exception of jokers like me.

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I just want to record that it took 24 hours, plus for the penny to drop. I will try harder in class. I will...

F1F1 - Brilliant.

Reminds me of the ~hem~ American tourists looking for the Island off Scotland called 10 NA. They asked everywhere, until the wrote it down for a puzzled Scot to read....









'Oh', he said. 'Iona!'

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several years ago at Oshkosh a teenager named Dave was wiping down Ray Stutsman's P-51 named "Double Trouble." A goofball came running up to him and said "A P-38!! That's a beautiful P-38 !! IT is a real P-38 isn't it?!!
Dave , wearing greasy jeans and an old work T-shirt said, Yeah, sugar, it's just me here, so I left the other half at home!!"

F-1F1??? everyone knows its an F1F-1.

Several years ago we were at the Geneseo show. I was beside the PX watching the runway when someone landed in an Ercoupe. A guy came running past me almost shouting A P38! Did you see? A P38 just landed!! I slowed him down and explained what had landed and the fast difference, but it was pretty funny. All of us working the PX got a real chuckle out of it.

Eric, where did the owl go??

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He’s doing field mouse removal in the hangar.

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