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Offline Brooke

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For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« on: April 20, 2009, 02:46:08 PM »
The Museum of Flight in Seattle has panel discussions by WWII pilots every couple of months.  They are awesome, with excellent stories.  The following is a short excerpt that my wife, Traci (video maven that she is), put together for us.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J0lEHyKInw

The gentleman telling the tale is Bill Allen, who flew both P-38's and P-51's with the 55th FG.  He loves the P-38 and had other interesting tales of the P-38 and of his first impression of the P-51.

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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2009, 02:59:11 PM »
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I wasn't really worried about it.  There wasn't an airplane in the world that could keep up with a P-38 when it was out of control going straight down.

 :rofl

Thank your wife for us.


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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2009, 03:09:15 PM »
"Uh, I hope your right, Tony" :rofl

(The test pilot Tony, not me :))
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2009, 03:17:06 PM »
Thanks for posting that.Its always great to hear the Vets speak of theyre experiances.


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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2009, 04:01:34 PM »
Very good. Thanks for posting. Thanks to your wife for taking the time to put that together too.
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2009, 04:15:15 PM »
Brooke you are a true scholar and a gentleman.  Thank you for posting this and your wife for putting it together.


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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2009, 04:15:30 PM »
Funny.
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2009, 05:06:21 PM »
"There wasn't a plane in world that could keep up with an out of control P-38 going straight down."  :rofl
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2009, 09:35:01 PM »
Quote from: Lye-El on April 20, 2009, 05:06:21 PM
"There wasn't a plane in world that could keep up with an out of control P-38 going straight down."  :rofl
To that end...I guess there wasn't a plane in the world that wanted to keep up with a P-38 going straight down out of control!
Nice!!!
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2009, 11:58:21 PM »
Thanks Brooke and Mrs Brooke. :)
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2009, 12:52:40 PM »
That was priceless  :aok
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2009, 01:11:13 PM »
would enjoy seeing more of this panel dicussion?   Too bad MOF doesn't record these and make them available on the web, or at least to museum members.
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2009, 01:37:21 PM »
very cool thanks  :aok
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2009, 01:53:16 PM »
Quote from: Yeager on April 21, 2009, 01:11:13 PM
would enjoy seeing more of this panel dicussion?   Too bad MOF doesn't record these and make them available on the web, or at least to museum members.

I've asked museum folks a bit about that, and I'm going to see if there is any way my wife and I can pitch in.  I've been to a lot of these panel discussions and some of the stories are *amazing* -- as amazing or more amazing than even the most-spectacular stories you have read in histories.  Some are hilarious.  Some are heartbreakingly sad.  They are stories a lot of people would truly wish to hear.
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Re: For Guppy, SAPP, AKAK, and all other admirers of the P-38
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2009, 04:35:08 PM »
Any chance of something like this for the 190D-13?
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