Paul Allen's ME-109 flies!

[6trn4brn]

Say what you want or think what you want about Microsoft. I for one would love to shake Mr Allen's hand and tell him a heartfelt thank you for his love and passion towards aircraft restorations and for sharing them with us mere mortals!

Thank you Mr Allen

[bdk]

Offer to buy the locals a rice factory ...I hear it works wonders ....

I was just at a construction show in Las Vegas and there was a guy from Papua New Guinea looking to buy a rock crushing plant, so maybe that Western cash is going to good use.

[warbird1]

He has flown in his warbirds.
Norm

Really, when did this happen? More details, please. I read an article not too long ago that stated that Mr. Allen had not flown in any of his warbirds.

[Flashonyrsix]

Mr Allen flew in the Storch.

[Michel Lemieux]

Shameless link from PlaneTalk.....

Some in the works including the Oscar

http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=5815



Arrival at Paine

[Warbird Kid]

Oh, yeah. Gonna have to take a trip out there eventually!

[Django]

WOW!!

[gary1954]

Note to Self, save up, buy a new car...make road trip to photograph aeroplanes...
Maybe Mr. Allen, through his business Savie (coin), can lasso the elusive Swamp Ghost and get her returned to America and back in the air!!

[airmanual]

I can confirm that the Myrt is no longer on Moen island in Chuuk.

Is it this one we are speaking about ?

http://j-aircraft.com/relics/richard_scovel/Myrt4.jpg

Laurent

[bax101]

I think Mr. Allen should buy the Navy some new aircraft in hopes they will look the other way so Mr. Allen can save some Aircraft from Lake Michigan sorry im just having a day dream.

[The Inspector]

...and, it's less than five minutes from my front door if I don't make the lights........................

I worked in that hanger a couple of years ago on a DC-6 that lives in Alaska and a retired friend of mine was based in that hanger working on F-102's radars.........................

[spookythecat]

The 190 before it was taken out of the Museum Of Flight.





Paul's Spitfire at NWEAA Fly-In 2007







Polikarpov's





Storch

[Curtis Block]

I never personally saw the "Myrt" that is in question.

It was gone by the time I arrived. I know quite a bit about it through the research I was dong for the other C6N I identified out there.

If the aircraft is the same as depicted on the Pacific Wrecks Database, it is obvious that the photo was taken at a much later date. I know the aircraft became a popular tourist site in the recent past. This would explain the lack of vegetation in this photo, as well as the apparent degradation / manipulation of the wreck (compared to the photos on Pacific Wrecks).

Do you have any information on this photo?

I've got the Lat. Long. of the site where the aircraft originally sat, but I can't seem to find it right now. I've seen it from Google Earth in the past, and the building in the background looks about right. I do want to check again before I say for sure.

That being said, today I lost my Uncle, who started my interest in diving and who provided my inspiration and desire to go to Chuuk (Truk) and stay for as long as I did. Without him none of the research and experience I have in the area would have been possible.

[JDK]

That being said, today I lost my Uncle, who started my interest in diving and who provided my inspiration and desire to go to Chuuk (Truk) and stay for as long as I did. Without him none of the research and experience I have in the area would have been possible.

I'm sorry to hear that Curtis, that's tough. I hope it was merciful.

I don't know if this will help you, but it's rare that a day goes by when I don't gather inspiration or direction from someone who is now gone. Sometimes it is 'what would he have done here?', or 'thought about this?' Sometimes they help us while they are around, often they can continue to do so after they are no longer with us. I've lost too many friends, colleagues and contacts in the aviation business, sometimes I can say a public thank you for their contributions in an appropriate form, as you have done here, but other times their legacy lives on, if we let it.

I hope your uncles' does for you. It sounds like it will.

Regards,

[Steve Nelson]

I always wondered what became of that particular Storch. It was on display at the Air Zoo ten or twelve years ago while waiting for a buyer. I was told it was basically an new-build aircraft, made by a gentleman in Standish, Michigan, and that he'd built several others.

SN