Bill Greenwood wrote:
I wonder how many people know Bill was a real B-25 pilot. One year we were chatting at the show at Ellington, and Bill told me on the morning Pearl Harbor was attacked he was a cadet at Ellington. The next day he left for training and went on to fly Mitchells. I heard he'd like to get Silver Lady, back. Who, beside Nelson, is the slim young guy in the window with dark hair? For airplanes and flying, Bkd was about the best show there was. I met Tex Hill there, and he told me about his first Zero encounter where they got his wingman and almost left his P-40 as two P-20s. There's plenty of shows with acro and diesel burners, we need to get some more like Bkd. Tip of navigation, if you can't gat real Bar-B-Q, you're too far north!
Not only was Mr. Arnot a real B-25 pilot, but he also flew B-24s and B-29 in the CBI. Best I can remember, he has about three Distinguished Flying Crosses and was shot down once in a B-24 He was also one of the "Flying Sergeants". Seems like he told me he did some flying for Douglas after the war and flew A-20s and A-26s a lot.
The young guy sitting in the window cleaning bugs off is a much younger version of me. The guy sitting in the copilot seat in the other pictures is Bud Arnot, one of the sons and an equally nice guy. In one of the Pictures Mr. Arnot and Bud are standing under the wing with another grey headed fellow. His name was Barney and he was an old family friend that flew as copilot on many occasions.
Jerry Janes and his crew flew his B-25 to Hawaii, Christmas Island and a few other Pacific locations many years ago. At Breckenridge or Harlingen one year later, , he was telling the story about how they did it. He didn't know Mr. Arnot very well and later asked him "Bill, aren't you impressed with my story of flying my B-25 all over the pacific?" Mr. Arnot said, "Well Jerry, not so much. I've done it when we ferried them during the war. But I was the only one in the airplane." Jerry told me he had a big helping of humble pie that evening.
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for the Saturday PM party? That was a true Texas low pass 
