What's in the middle of nowhere? (Big Spring, TX)

[gregv]

I'd love to see some pics of the two-seater; that would make a very cool warbird in its original service scheme.

thanks for the pics, that's amazing what he has lying around. My very quick & rough count shows about two dozen Merlin cores....


cheers

greg v.

[MX304]

I was wondering about Tex the other day too. My first T-6 ride was with him several years back.

[PeterA]

I'd love to see some pics of the two-seater; that would make a very cool warbird in its original service scheme.

thanks for the pics, that's amazing what he has lying around. My very quick & rough count shows about two dozen Merlin cores....


cheers

greg v.

Here is a shot of the 'Buchon made for two' in the UK in 1968. I don't think it has changed much since then.



'Connie' Edwards - a crazy, crazy, funny man. With fond memories of Oshkosh 85 and the unexpected water arrival for the Lake Lawn 'bash'.

PeterA

[retroaviation]

I've got pictures coming of the two seater 109, and the Mustang, and the Spitfire, and the other 109's in his hangar (he has ten left), and the Albatrosses, and the Widgeons, and the Mallard, and the................well, you get the idea. It'll just be a couple of days it looks like.

Gary

[tom d. friedman]

wow what a collection of iron!!! i can tell he's meticulous in the care of his stuff. he's an organized walter soplata!!

[King]

wow what a collection of iron!!! i can tell he's meticulous in the care of his stuff. he's an organized walter soplata!!

He at least keeps most all of it protected in hangars and buildings. I don't think the words "meticulous in care" would exactly apply though.

[Ollie]

Cooldos Gary!

My question is: what kind of Piaggio was it?

[retroaviation]

My question is: what kind of Piaggio was it?

Ugly.

Actually, I don't remember the model of the Piaggios. But he's got three of them. I snapped some shots of them and I'll post 'em all when I get this camera thingy worked out.

Gary

[Ollie]

Roger that!

[pmahaffey]

My question is: what kind of Piaggio was it?


I'm not sure if he own any other types of Piaggios, but he does own several Piaggio P-136 Royal Gull Amphibians. We have called him a few times for parts for our Royal Gull. Here are some pictures of one in action.

http://www.langshyttan.nu/don.html

Patrick Mahaffey
B-17 "Chuckie" pilot/mechanic

[N3Njeff]

Howmany 109's???????

I knew he had mustangs?

[gregv]

PeterA

thanks for the two seater pic! If the info in the ancient ARCO book on 109's I have is correct (Steve Birdsall, I think), they only made two of these. I'll scan the pic in that book and post it tomorrow, if I remember to. That would be amazing to see back in the air.

You can tell Connie is a straight shooter; he drinks Bud, the King of Beers. And no, I am not being sarcastic. Out of curiousity, is "Connie" a nick-name, or a shortening of a name, like "Bob" for "Robert"?

Gary, thanks for the pics, they are amazing. I've always wondered what this collection of stuff looked like.

cheers & thanks

greg v.

[Steve T]

I think Connie's full name is Wilson Connell Edwards; but don't ask where I remember that from because...I forget!

Keenly looking forward to the other pix...especially any showing the Hispano 1112 M4L trainer, which is, as someone else noted, one of only two built, and maybe the prettiest Me109 variant ever. (Personally I'd like to see this one in the museum at Cuatro Vientos...after being used, Willow Grove Me262-style, for the "cloning" of four or five more M4L Buchons...)

S.

[King]

[quote="gregv"]You can tell Connie is a straight shooter; he drinks Bud, the King of Beers. And no, I am not being sarcastic. Out of curiousity, is "Connie" a nick-name, or a shortening of a name, like "Bob" for "Robert"?quote]

I believe his first name is Wilson. Not sure where "Connie" came from.

And he really likes his Bud!!!

[MKD1966]

I met Mr. Edwards at that TBM reunion in Fort Lauderdale back in 1990 when we had our A-26 there... He and Tex both are super nice people... Tex let me sit in the TBM for the first time and he wanted to sit in the A-26 because he was getting ready to get his type rating in the one Wiley Sanders had at that time... As I was talking to his dad I asked why he didn't get one of those mustangs going to fly around and I'll never forget his response because I thought I'd never stop laughing, but he said and I quote "I flown mustangs alot and to me flying a mustang around was like driving a road grader down to the jiffy store to buy a six pack of beer"...
Well, I've flew in the backseat of Bob Brynes mustang and I didn't see it like that but his response still cracks me up...