Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:01 pm
Will Princess be staying on the east coast?
Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:03 pm
Jim Beasley wrote:Hopefully by mid-august, but whenever she safely arrives is fine with mewarbird1 wrote:Jim Beasley wrote:Nah things are all better now. At least until the next orphan comes to the hangar
Any estimated time frame on the next orphan?
Awesome, just be sure to start a new thread or have Rich start one, so we can follow along as you "unwrap" your new present! We're all interested in your new "orphan"!
Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:04 pm
Trey Carroll wrote:Jim Beasley wrote:Nah things are all better now. At least until the next orphan comes to the hangar
I'll just need directions
I'll think you'll be seeing her soon enough during next year's airshow season!
Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:17 pm
We sure will -- it will be really interesting when our dear friends from the UK come and show us how the British make and build aeroplanes. Hopefully they'll remember what happened in the revolutionary war and behave themselves. Right Fred?
warbird1 wrote:Jim Beasley wrote:Hopefully by mid-august, but whenever she safely arrives is fine with mewarbird1 wrote:Jim Beasley wrote:Nah things are all better now. At least until the next orphan comes to the hangar
Any estimated time frame on the next orphan?
Awesome, just be sure to start a new thread or have Rich start one, so we can follow along as you "unwrap" your new present! We're all interested in your new "orphan"!
Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:23 pm
Jim Beasley wrote:We sure will -- it will be really interesting when our dear friends from the UK come and show us how the British make and build aeroplanes. Hopefully they'll remember what happened in the revolutionary war and behave themselves. Right Fred?warbird1 wrote:Jim Beasley wrote:Hopefully by mid-august, but whenever she safely arrives is fine with mewarbird1 wrote:Jim Beasley wrote:Nah things are all better now. At least until the next orphan comes to the hangar
Any estimated time frame on the next orphan?
Awesome, just be sure to start a new thread or have Rich start one, so we can follow along as you "unwrap" your new present! We're all interested in your new "orphan"!
Was it Fred or Achmed that will be coming?
Rich
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:16 pm
If you toss crates full of tea in a harbor, they'll straighten up.
Cheerio.
Cheerio.
Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:56 pm
mkxiv wrote:Will Princess be staying on the east coast?
Most likely it will reside in Texas.
Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:19 am
Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:46 am
warbird51 wrote:mkxiv wrote:Will Princess be staying on the east coast?
Most likely it will reside in Texas.
Are the new owner's initials R and L?
Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:27 am
No. I think they are T. F.
Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:08 am
If we're talking about the same guy, didn't he just acquire a certain Sabre as well?
Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:08 am
Nice! Any more photos of them flying in formation? Please?! 
a4gturn wrote:
Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:31 am
Moonlight wrote:If we're talking about the same guy, didn't he just acquire a certain Sabre as well?
This could also explain why a certain TF-51D was recently spotted on the east coast, having been based in Texas with a T. F.
Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:35 am
Jim,
You may already have heard this story from someone else about the name on your kite - and the later 'Moonbeam' name Bill had on his D-model ...
In 1987, when I lived near Barksdale AFB, La., I had the opportunity to spend a day with Bill Whisner, and interviewed him on-camera for a documentary a friend of ours was producing (the project was abandoned, and the guy lost the footage
).
Anyway, Bill was originally from Shreveport (near Barksdale), but in retirement he lived in little Pineville, near Alexandria, La. He drove up to meet us, along with his buddy John Sublett (357th FG). Bill drove me around that day in his car and we had ample time to talk. We all know the story about Princess not exactly being Bill's first choice for a name, but the powers-that-be prevailed in that decision. I asked him how the Moonbeam McSwine name came to be ... he said that when he finally got his own plane to name, he deliberately chose a young lady who was pretty much the polar opposite of a "Princess Elizabeth" - he thought the Al Capp character 'Moonbeam McSwine' fit perfectly.
I still have a bunch of pics we took that day - I have one on my site on this page - 5th one from the top. I really need to scan the photos and post them here. John Sublett had a good story about Chuck Yeager and his run-in with the Officer's Mess folks - later:
http://wademeyersart.tripod.com/id26.html
Keep that beautiful plane flying proud!
Wade
You may already have heard this story from someone else about the name on your kite - and the later 'Moonbeam' name Bill had on his D-model ...
In 1987, when I lived near Barksdale AFB, La., I had the opportunity to spend a day with Bill Whisner, and interviewed him on-camera for a documentary a friend of ours was producing (the project was abandoned, and the guy lost the footage
).
Anyway, Bill was originally from Shreveport (near Barksdale), but in retirement he lived in little Pineville, near Alexandria, La. He drove up to meet us, along with his buddy John Sublett (357th FG). Bill drove me around that day in his car and we had ample time to talk. We all know the story about Princess not exactly being Bill's first choice for a name, but the powers-that-be prevailed in that decision. I asked him how the Moonbeam McSwine name came to be ... he said that when he finally got his own plane to name, he deliberately chose a young lady who was pretty much the polar opposite of a "Princess Elizabeth" - he thought the Al Capp character 'Moonbeam McSwine' fit perfectly.
I still have a bunch of pics we took that day - I have one on my site on this page - 5th one from the top. I really need to scan the photos and post them here. John Sublett had a good story about Chuck Yeager and his run-in with the Officer's Mess folks - later:
http://wademeyersart.tripod.com/id26.html
Keep that beautiful plane flying proud!
Wade
Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:43 am
Moonlight wrote:If we're talking about the same guy, didn't he just acquire a certain Sabre as well?
Yepper! Mr Shipley's Sabre.