Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:30 pm
DougR - excellent info. Thanks. I'll have to dig up the Kitplanes article. I hope to see more & more active warbird pilots discuss experiences in different types.
I've found the hardest thing about flying a Corsair is either finding someone who will let you fly theirs, or affording one myself!..........until then, I am very happy to enjoy another "mythically difficult" airplane, the Pitts Special.
I've found the hardest thing about flying a Corsair is either finding someone who will let you fly theirs, or affording one myself!..........until then, I am very happy to enjoy another "mythically difficult" airplane, the Pitts Special.
Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:41 pm
Sorry to partially hijack this thread. Doug, have ya'll retrieved the super from Reno yet, or is it still at Stead?
Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:49 pm
The Super is still in Reno, Bob has the engine out. The blower drive was the problem at the Race, and it should be going back togather soon.
Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:01 pm
Any chance of a repeat visit next year?
Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:09 pm
You would have to take that up with Mr. O. I am just the ferry puke, not the race team spokesman. That said, I think he liked leading the laps that he did, and I think he would like to do some more of that.
Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:35 pm
Awesome, it was the highlight of the year for alot of people watching him win that heat race. Especially some of the guys that were around during Cook Clelands Cleveland race days.
Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:27 pm
Going back to Oscar Deuce's question about the "Ensign eliminator", I have always heard this nickname given to the Howard NH-1 Nightingale the military equivalent of the DGA-15P.
It was considered too hot for civilians and most of them were scrapped after WW II rather than sold to the public. Of course some of them got out and are still around.
The military bird supposedly has a few wing changes from the DGA-15P and the Navy used these for instrument training, ambulance service, and for base hacks. IT was not a low time pilots airplane and many were torn up.
If the Corsair ever had that nickname it was temporary, IMHO. Never heard it called that by anyone that flew them in the military.
It was considered too hot for civilians and most of them were scrapped after WW II rather than sold to the public. Of course some of them got out and are still around.
The military bird supposedly has a few wing changes from the DGA-15P and the Navy used these for instrument training, ambulance service, and for base hacks. IT was not a low time pilots airplane and many were torn up.
If the Corsair ever had that nickname it was temporary, IMHO. Never heard it called that by anyone that flew them in the military.
Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:34 pm
Hmmmm...funny...never heard the DGA referred to as the 'ensign eliminator' but have heard the initials 'DGA' referred to as 'darn Good Airplane'....had a friend here in CO, one Whitey Wannemacher, who had a DGA (yellow with green navigation stripes) rode in it many times with him on his way to a nd from airshows, it would carry 5 and their gear, actually a great plane with T-6 like speed...he eventually traded it to some guys in Minnesota for a Twin Beech (also fun for airshowing)....
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