Warbird Information Exchange

I saw John Verdi at Oshkosh the year before he died. He was in the warbird parking area and was wearing his leather flight jacket with patches and he had a pony tail. Being a Marine at the time I was embarassed as pony tails weren't popular in the 80's. My dad told me "No,No He's the real deal." Being ex-navy for my dad to say he liked him really impressed me. I remember he was a few inches over six feet tall and had the military bearing of a career type hard ass. I was told that the pony tail had to do with him being a black belt in several martial art disciplines, Tae Kwan Do, Karate, etc. He was very imposing.
After his disappearance, I think the Warbirds magazine and Air Classics did a story on him.

RickH:

Thank you!

I have known Ernesto for a few years now; he had at one time 4 or 5 T-28s outside his place in Pearland.

I have more photos of the F-9 being uncrated, but I will have to search for them.

Do you live in Pearland proper, or somewhere nearby?

Saludos,


Tulio

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Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

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Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????

here are some photos of the F9F along I-90 in MN. This is my first photo posting hope it works

Steve


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Try this
http://photobucket.com/albums/y39/donne ... %20%20F9F/

that works

thanks

Steve

Hmmnn..not working for me. I keep getting a password request.

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try this



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That’s working, Steve.

It’s visible from the highway? I’m going to have to start paying attention.

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Anybody know the fate of this one. It disappeared a year ago or so. Hope it didn't get the axe.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/511338/L/

That's the one I was talking about in my previous post. I don't know where it went but it has not been gone quite a year. I did some work in the area back in March/April of this year and it was still there, though partially disassembled at that point. It did disappear very shortly after that however.