Musicians and Airplanes

[daveymac82c]

Hi everyone,

This is quite a round-about story, but bear with me.

I was randomly on the Larrivee Guitar Company website (which is a Vancouver guitar company that make incredible guitars)... The reason I was there was because I was thinking of asking them for a donation of a guitar for our museum's upcoming fundraising auction in March. As I was checking out their website (http://www.larrivee.com) they had a section of musicians who own and use their guitars.

I scrolled all the way down and back up the list and boy, there's quite a few names... but then again, I didn't really recognize any of them at first glance. So, I clicked on the first name on the list to see who these people were, George Canyon was his name.

The first thing you see on his website is George Canyon in front of a radial engine.
http://www.georgecanyon.com.



I thought, oh cool, this guy digs airplanes, and then I looked at it more and checked out his website some more and discovered that the radial he was in front of was that of the Beechcraft Expeditor at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley BC. That's "my" museum as I call it, because I've been a member and volunteer there since I was 8 (twenty years ago)... yikes. And that Expeditor is the one my friends and I polished up one long summer about ten years ago. George Canyon's website includes other pictures of him and the museum's Harvard, and CF-100 Canuck too. How cool is that?

Anyways, I just thought it was really interesting how I started out doing something for my museum, and then I stray way off on a tangent, and then it comes right back to where I started.

I hope you enjoyed that story, and as a side note, the whole time I was writing this post I have been listening to George Canyons music that is playing from his website. He's very good, and that's coming from someone who doesn't place country music on the top of his favourites list.

Okay, now I gotta get back to work.

Peace,

David

[sdennison]

Not a real musician and no longer a "real" airplane, but here is a poker run for Vets we did back in 2007. The place is the Bunker in Waterford WI. I'll swing by one day and take pictures of the rest of his toys. He has a T-33 on a ple, a Huey, armored vehicles etc. Pretty fun bar.

[CAPFlyer]

Well, here's a famous name (also a Country Singer) who loves not just planes but old planes.

http://www.commemorativeairforce.org/?p ... b0617de35e

There's also Jimmy Buffett, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Dickenson, and several other "high profile" pilot/musicians.

Oh, and then there's these guys who just had their first annual Fly-In over at Spinks (which I sadly had to miss due to work)

http://www.flyingmusicians.org/

[Jack Cook]

J-C Paul's a rock star and he flies a P-40!! Top that

[ripcord]

One of the members of Pink Floyd has (or had?) either a Mustang or a Spitfire, I forget which. Really into their music.....not.

[Stoney]

Dave Gilmour had a P-51 and a T-6, not a meber of NATA anymore.

[John-Curtiss Paul]

J-C Paul's a rock star and he flies a P-40!! Top that

hardly a rock-star!

Not even close to a rock-star!

JC

[Jack Cook]

maybe an slight exaggeration but you guys make GOOD music!!!

[John-Curtiss Paul]

Thanks..

[sdennison]

maybe an slight exaggeration but you guys make GOOD music!!!

Where can we hear JC's music?

[lestweforget]

Dave Gilmour also had a Gnat registered G-MOUR. Gary Numan (don't know if you have heard of him in the US) is also a qualified pilot and heavily into aircraft. Something in the back of my mind is telling me he may have had a T-6/Harvard, but I may well be wrong on this.

Details of a couple of Gilmours aircraft can be found here:-

http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/survivors/pages/44-73339.shtml
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/gnat/survivorspics5.html#XR991

Anyway, what do you mean you don't like Pink Floyd!!!!!!

Perhaps these will convert you? If not , I tried!! And ps. Yes, aviation , war related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VpiYxbmbDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VpiYxbmbDg

[Jack Cook]

Where can we hear JC's music?

Google motorflower

[lestweforget]

For those who are interested, there is an interview with Gary Newman about his flying activities here, plus a short video clip.

http://thequietus.com/articles/03240-gary-numan-interview-pilot-a-magnificant-man-and-his-flying-machines

[warbirdcrew]

David Gilmour also owned September Fury way before it was September Fury.