Author Topic: A few airshow shots..... (Read 1265 times)

AKIron · « **Reply #30 on:** July 27, 2003, 01:39:37 PM »

Great pics Toad!

The hollowed out space behind the pilot in the pony reminded me of a story my Dad told me years ago. He had a friend that bought a pony shortly after the war when they were selling them for $5K each.

Anyhow, he gave my Dad a ride in the early '50s around White Rock lake in Dallas, used to be an airfield there, and while doing a dive (Dad said they hit 500kts) steam started pouring from the engine. They managed to land just before the engine seized. Dad said his buddy was able to patch the cracked block and pawn it off on someone for what he paid for it, $5K. Bet he was kicking himself a few years later.

Ossie · « **Reply #31 on:** July 31, 2003, 02:26:01 AM »

Not sure if the link will work, but I took a stab at the pony...

GScholz · « **Reply #32 on:** July 31, 2003, 03:54:41 AM »

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Originally posted by Toad
I should also post one of Doug smoking Reg's plane for fairness, I guess. But... haven't come across one yet.

Awwww, why don't the LW or IJN ever win one of these mock dogfights?

Don't worry your "noble visage" is kinda manly in a grandfatherly, broken nose barfigher kinda way.

Great pictures! Thanks!

Toad · « **Reply #33 on:** July 31, 2003, 08:47:28 AM »

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Awwww, why don't the LW or IJN ever win one of these mock dogfights?

Maybe because the "Zero" was a T-6 with a Pratt 1340 and only 600 horsepower? As the "big block" guys say in the O-Club car threads.. there's no substitute for horsepower.

Not quite a grandfather yet... I'm kinda looking forward to that in the next few years though. Bar fightin' days are pretty much over though. I prefer trickery now. Buy them drinks until they're too drunk and THEN hit them over the head with an bottle.

OSSIE: The link didn't work for me, but I'd like to see it. Can you post it on Saw's site?

http://www.onpoi.net/ah

He'll host some of your pics for free, easy to set up, just your e-mail.

GScholz · « **Reply #34 on:** July 31, 2003, 08:55:47 AM »

You didn't get the "wink wink nudge nudge" row of smiles? I was joking, everybody wants to see the good guys win.

So it's true like they say, old age and trickery ...

Toad · « **Reply #35 on:** July 31, 2003, 09:00:34 AM »

Nah, I got it. I was actually wishing Doug did have more horsepower. The way it went was sorta like a G-10 working over a P-40 with ord on it in the MA. Only Doug didn't have as much "oomph" as the P-40......

Well, like an old mule, hit me with a 2x4 board often enough, I learn to duck.

My nose hasn't been quite straight for a long time; the repeated "adjustments" only made it worse, I fear.

SlapShot · « **Reply #36 on:** July 31, 2003, 12:34:35 PM »

Nice pics Toad !!! Thanks ...

That T-28 body style and undercarriage looks so much like an F-86 Sabre .... Is there a link between these 2 planes ?

Ossie · « **Reply #37 on:** July 31, 2003, 01:12:41 PM »

Okay try this link...

Toad · « **Reply #38 on:** July 31, 2003, 03:39:12 PM »

Ossie.... VERY NICE!

I'm E-Mailing that one to Reg and I think I'll get an print for me.

Thank you very much!

Toad · « **Reply #39 on:** July 31, 2003, 03:49:30 PM »

Slap, I think there pretty much has to be.

The XF-86 was first flown Oct. 1, 1947. In December, North American leased the Downey plant to build the T-28 trainer and a few other models. The T-28's first flight was September 24, 1949.

So, when they were building the F-86, they were designing the T-28. No doubt there was some crossover of people so that some worked on both and there's always a tendency to use "off the shelf" stuff that will work.

sling322 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 31, 2003, 04:10:37 PM »

Those guys at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston arent a good bunch....they are a great bunch. Back when I lived in Houston a couple of years ago I had the responsibility of going out to Galveston once a month to count some Hewlett Packard inventory at the UT hospital there. It always took me 2 hrs longer than normal to count that stuff because I always seemed to get distracted by the flight museum on my way back to Houston.

I was signed up to go through orientation to be a volunteer there on weekends but it never panned out. My sister decided to tell me she was selling her house a week before I was scheduled to start it and I had to drop out of the program due to the fact that I knew that I couldnt afford to stay in Houston in my own place. Hell I could barely afford rent in my sister's house.

Got to see Thunderbird on numerous occassions from really up close. I also got to climb around in the cockpit of their P47....Tarheel Hal once. I need to get over to Cavanaugh more often here in Addison and see what kind of volunteer program they have going but I never seem to find the time.

SlapShot · « **Reply #41 on:** August 01, 2003, 11:16:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Toad
Slap, I think there pretty much has to be.

The XF-86 was first flown Oct. 1, 1947. In December, North American leased the Downey plant to build the T-28 trainer and a few other models. The T-28's first flight was September 24, 1949.

So, when they were building the F-86, they were designing the T-28. No doubt there was some crossover of people so that some worked on both and there's always a tendency to use "off the shelf" stuff that will work.

Uncanny ...

Here are the two together. This F-86 is in the National Army Air Force Museum.