Speedy wrote:
Yup, 2001 was the only year that 66 and 13 were both on the plane. The strange thing is...the 66 was always on the back half of the fuselage behind the roundel. So in 2001 Howard had to have moved the 66 up forward and put the new 13 in back. Strange. But yes, you hit on it...Lefty had retired and 13 was next to 14.
1998 was the year that Howard had the engine quit on takeoff. As I recall, he had won the silver and bumped up...and in the process the crew forgot to refuel. I have video of it from pylon 8 where the engine goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrup....................brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrup................................................brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrup and then quiet. I couldn't tell who it was at the time (I thought it was Argonaut) because he was backlit, but the 180 to the left and then landing downwind on runway 8 was dicey. Good thing he was the last plane to take off and wasn't landing back into someone taking off.
Spent many a day working on Howards Birds, I sure miss that old man
. Speedy, the story I was told(when I used to work @ Ezells) was that a film crew was allowed to place a camera in the cockpit and in doing so bumped the fuel selector and that it was sitting in between a detent so the engine was starving for fuel but making some power. And If I remember right he never even had the time to make a mayday call!!
That is how I remember the story to told to me from one Gary Austin(another I truly miss
) After that Howard said no more cameras in my airplanes!! I crewed from 03 -09 on the Bearcat and Fury, good times!!
Neal If ya got any more sure would be nice
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