Steven M. Dennis wrote:
Scott,
This thread is worthless without pics!
Glad to hear that you got to go up in a Big Boned Boeing Biplane. Now maybe you'll get smart and stop messing around with these Fairchilds and start playing with the Stearmans. I know where there are a few projects for sale... Remember we talked about this at Oshkosh this year?
Steve
Yeah Steve, I know but this was a truly impromptu deal.. I happened to see him at the hangar which is located right where I dome out of our driveway at work. I stopped to get a couple of his CD's (fellow musician) and wound up helping him move the T-6 out and get the Stearman out as well. He said, "Ever been up in a Stearman?" "Nope." "C'mon." Didn't have to ask me twice and we were off. No camera time and all the pictures I took in my little brain are great, if you get my drift.
Maybe another time. It's a local trainer that was stationed in Iowa during the war, I think. He said that he actually landed at the former base and taxied to the wrong side of the airport, found a gagle of pictures in the OPs building that included his own plane.
By the way, I'll get that header off to you this week.