Mike Dillon

PinecastleAAF · **Joined:** Fri May 25, 2007 4:50 pm **Posts:** 1028

Just got my copy of Blue Press and discovered with dismay that Mike Dillon went west on Nov. 7th 2016. RIP sir, what a legacy!

I'll never forget that red P-40.

Dan K · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:02 am

https://www.dillonprecision.com/remembe ... illon.html

Cvairwerks · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:20 pm

Man, that bums me out. I get the chance to talk to Mike a number of times when I was associated with Fox51 Ltd.

Blue skies Mike, you now have endless fuel and ammo.

seagull61785 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:21 pm

Over the years I have bought a number of his reloading presses and countless other products. Still have got my original 550B. If I had a dollar for every round I have reloaded on Dillon gear I could easily buy a real warbird (dreams). Mike Dillon's products are/were superb. The man himself always came across as being totally of the Right Stuff - and unashamedly non-PC into the bargain. Lovely guy.

I am just having a cold beer while watching my copy of Machine-Gun Magic on VHS (yet again).

Blue Skies Mike (and NEVER de-cap live primers!).

Barry

maxum96 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:54 pm

My favorite Dillon video. Love the MD-500 in the video.

https://youtu.be/v4gT0oE18ls

airnutz · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2017 1:00 am

PinecastleAAF wrote:

Just got my copy of Blue Press and discovered with dismay that Mike Dillon went west on Nov. 7th 2016. RIP sir, what a legacy!

I'll never forget that red P-40.

Not just a red P-40, but a VERY RED P-40. A truly brilliant man. What a loss.
I've been clearing out my storages recently and am hoping to run across a few magazines featuring that P-40N. I'm thinking they would be "Air Progress" (which he wrote some articles for later) and "Flying". I remember the issues and the color spreads of that bird(of which some were sacrificed to be stapled to the "Wall of WOW". I'm surprised that the Dillon Precision site, in all of their ample remembrances of Mr. Dillon, didn't have one dedicated to that bird. They redeemed themselves a bit with the February cover of the "Blue Press" bearing a photo of a very young Mike Dillon in front of her. For those who haven't seen it, link here to a pdf of that issue...
http://www.dillonprecision.com/docs/Feb ... ue_Web.pdf

Sasquatch · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2017 7:08 pm

For what it's worth, the current issue of Warbirds International (March 2017) is reprinting the first of three articles that were originally in Air Progress--the series on restoring the red P-50, by Mike Dillon. They infer that they (W.Int'l) consider those articles one of the origins of the warbird movement. They plan to follow up with the rest of the articles in subsequent issues. Fun reading!

-Tom

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:59 pm

airnutz wrote:

PinecastleAAF wrote:

Just got my copy of Blue Press and discovered with dismay that Mike Dillon went west on Nov. 7th 2016. RIP sir, what a legacy!

I'll never forget that red P-40.

Not just a red P-40, but a VERY RED P-40. A truly brilliant man. What a loss.
I've been clearing out my storage's recently and am hoping to run across a few magazines featuring that P-40N. I'm thinking they would be "Air Progress" (which he wrote some articles for later) and "Flying". I remember the issues and the color spreads of that bird(of which some were sacrificed to be stapled to the "Wall of WOW". I'm surprised that the Dillon Precision site, in all of their ample remembrances of Mr. Dillon, didn't have one dedicated to that bird. They redeemed themselves a bit with the February cover of the "Blue Press" bearing a photo of a very young Mike Dillon in front of her. For those who haven't seen it, link here to a pdf of that issue...
http://www.dillonprecision.com/docs/Feb ... ue_Web.pdf

from a google image search;

airnutz · **Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:19 pm

I was looking for the photos before the "de rigueur P-40 bling sharksmouth" and CAF adds...Haven't found one of those on the web, or my old mags...yet. Glad to hear "Warbirds Intl." will rerun the articles.

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2017 3:36 pm

airnutz wrote:

I was looking for the photos before the "de rigueur P-40 bling sharksmouth" and CAF adds...Haven't found one of those on the web, or my old mags...yet. Glad to hear "Warbirds Intl." will rerun the articles.

I have two more pic's on my hard drive, but they both have the teef bling and CAF ad.

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