Danpbphoto wrote:
The "Nine-0-Nine was" here about 10 years ago! Met the crew and had lunch with them. I was lucky to have access to the runway and shoot all the classic planes coming to that event as they approached and landed!
Dan
Yeah, met the pilot at Greenville Downtown airport and saw them for a few years not too long ago at fall. Remember hearing about the crash so sad.
Don
Littlefield wrote:
Yeah, met the pilot at Greenville Downtown airport and saw them for a few years at fall. Remember hearing about the crash so sad.
Don
Hi Don!
I have a group picture in my archives somewhere when they were here. Need to dig it out!
Yes the crash....
Dan
Ooops! Sorry..it was the "Witchcraft B24 Liberator"
Jan-Arie wrote:
Love the Vietnam photo's and all the other stuff excellent...
Thanks Jan-Arie!
Most of my photos/slides from my 2 year duty did not survive the heat and humidity. If I did not immediately send them to Kodak, they got ruined. There was no "mailroom" at my location. Mail was flown in/out by Huey's everyother day, conditions permitting and my team being on site.
Thanks!
Dan
Bill Gass wrote:
EA-3B with a Destroyer behind it.
Brings back memories. Ate at the floating restaurants several times.
Spent a lot of time in plane guard, mostly for the Midway but was around a couple of the other carriers at times when they deployed. Night flight ops plane guard were very tense as we followed much closer than you like to be to a carrier, offset on the flight path with only a mast head light as a visual point, the carrier with reduced lighting too. Daytime in the wake, not so bad. Usually they told us before maneuvering, sometimes small changes chasing the wind but now and then fairly big changes at the end of a cycle. Could be quite dangerous, especially if they came to starboard and we closed on them.
As a frigate we weren't as fast as the carriers could be and it could be interesting if they ran away from us or we got placed in a bad spot in the screen.
(Thinking that's a guided missile cruiser? Although they did some name class changes at times.)
kwbarnes wrote:
Don't you still have a homebuilt biplane waiting for repair/restoration?
As I recall it was something to do with the landing gear.
Hi Ken,
After much hand wringing I finally sold it to a Bombardier test pilot in Wichita a few years ago. I fixed the landing gear and it was all ready to go back together, but it was such a daunting task and I'd seen that movie once sooooo.............. Near as I can tell it hasn't progressed much since he hauled it all back to Kansas. A big factor in the decision was knowing that Chandler would end up with it if I'd finished it, and as romantic as a Grandson flying his Grandfather's creation, the possibility of him hurting himself in my homebuilt wasn't something I could wrap my arms around.
Today was interesting, JR and I took my trailer up to a fabricator that was recommended to us for some repairs. Turns out that the guy is a master craftsman and he specializes in drift racing vehicles, in fact he won the nationals last weekend in Oklahoma. He showed me some photography that he had and my imagination went to work from there. He has three new vehicles coming out of paint and wants them photographed. Something new and different always gets the juices flowing, more to come............
You bet, first class accommodations Buddy! I'm working on the second floor as we speak!
My nephew now is the Media Director at Baylor so if I can get Suzanne to make a "road trip", when you need help...we be there!!! I am going to "drag" Ray with me!
Say "Heh" to my buddy!
RD
Bill Gass wrote:
Another one for ya-
Thanks Bill!
I really enjoy these images from a "brother"!
Here is one from my childhood friend and neighbor who flew F4's out of Thailand. My dream job!
No he was not an "ace". This was on his base in Thailand. He flew sorties into North Vietnam in the 1970's.
Danpbphoto wrote:
My nephew now is the Media Director at Baylor so if I can get Suzanne to make a "road trip", when you need help...we be there!!! I am going to "drag" Ray with me!
Say "Heh" to my buddy!
RD
Ok...Plane building party at Jim's for the next week.
