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AF 1 must have been up to Boeing for maint.

Here's my summer ride....

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"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass..."
Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto

My two warbird flights this year happend on the same weekend!
Saturday of Fathers Day weekend had my first military jet ride in this L-29..what a ride and my stick time was incredible! Yep thats me in the back!



The Sunday on Fathers day weekend went for a flight in B-25 Hot Gen. My head is in the front behind the co-pilot somewhere!

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Mike

Ah yes, There we were, left engine on fire, right engine feathered...ahh yes,...there we were, ..Screwed! No Kissing!

I'd be lying if I said it doesn't get any better...

T-6
24
Harvard
Picture of John off my wing as we arrive in the 25
17
51

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I flew a good friends T-6 out on the East COast a few times..






Started flying a Citabria too. Such a wonderful airplane to fly! If you haven't flown one, you're missing out!




Rode in some Mustangs too...

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"There are two types of people here; airshow whores and airshow prostitutes. The whores, like you and I, do airshow stuff for free, whereas the prostitutes are paid" - Reg Urschler

On August 7, 2010 I realized a 35 year old dream of mine. I got some stick time in the Collings Foundation P-51C Betty Jane. This took place at Thunder Over Michigan. My pilot was Chuck Gardner and Chuck if you see this post you were a fantastic instructor. We climbed out and away from Wilow Run and headed for the Ann Arbor MI. area. We climbed up to about 6500 feet. Then I got to do a few aerobatics with Betty Jane. Lazy'8s, Left Aileron Rolls, and Barrell Rolls.
What surprised me the most was I thought I would have to man handle the stick quite the contrary the stick forces on Betty Jane were much lighter than I imagined. This flight gave me just a glimpse of what it is like to fly the mighty P-51 Mustang. As always it was an honor for me and a privlege to get to do this, and I will always have the utmost respect for the men that flew the P-51 in defense of our nation.
After flying Betty Jane this is one more thing I can cross off of my bucket list.

On August 7, 2010 I realized a 35 year old dream of mine. I got some stick time in the Collings Foundation P-51C Betty Jane. This took place at Thunder Over Michigan. My pilot was Chuck Gardner and Chuck if you see this post you were a fantastic instructor. We climbed out and away from Wilow Run and headed for the Ann Arbor MI. area. We climbed up to about 6500 feet. Then I got to do a few aerobatics with Betty Jane. Lazy'8s, Left Aileron Rolls, and Barrell Rolls.
What surprised me the most was I thought I would have to man handle the stick quite the contrary the stick forces on Betty Jane were much lighter than I imagined. This flight gave me just a glimpse of what it is like to fly the mighty P-51 Mustang. As always it was an honor for me and a privlege to get to do this, and I will always have the utmost respect for the men that flew the P-51 in defense of our nation.
After flying Betty Jane this is one more thing I can cross off of my bucket list.

The two aircraft that stand out the most are

The B-17 Sentimental Journey on which I got to go point to point and get B-17 time


And flying with Andy Heins in his beautiful Cabin Waco. Also just the whole atmosphere of their airport is just amazing. All great people there.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

She may be ugly but she is beautiful to me!

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Thank you!

Taigh Ramey
Vintage Aircraft, Stockton, California
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'KEEP ‘EM FLYING…FOR HISTORY!'

Don't know how to post a picture, but September 6, I got left seat time in Sentimental Journey with my family aboard and also a vet I took along. Didn't know it at the time, but after getting home and checking my Dad's logbook, his first flight as an Air Corp pilot took place on Sept. 6, 1943 on the same ramp where we cranked up. Since I was a kid listening to my Dad talking about flying B-17's I've wanted to do this, so I took the plunge and will remember it forever. Captain Blue and crew were great.
My Dad also flew the 'Parrottheads' so that's next on my Bucket list!

Steve G

this was a good season, I flew N8704 the YAF's C47 to the Reading,PA airshow,and several other venues. It is always a joy to fly the Douglas, in my humble opinion the greatest airplane ever made,still earning her keep in the far corners of the planet,and still going strong 75 years after her inception. I am ,we are blessed to fly her.

way cool Taigh! awesome rides guys...cool thread

jim

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If back seat counts, I can share a few pictures:

Hmmmm...Waco RNF, Waco KNF, Waco YKC-S, Waco ZQC-6, Waco SRE, Waco UPF-7, Bucker Jungman, Champion 7EC, Beech H35 Bonanza, North American Navion, Fairchild 24R, Piper PA-11 just to name a few.

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President National Waco Club
Curator for the Waco Historical Society Air Museum
Writer for VINTAGE AIRPLANE, SKYWAYS, BARNSTORMERS.COM EFLYER

I'll name a few too.

As PIC, my Piper PA-16 Clipper (shooting air-to-air photographs for my next book), a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser (missing man), a Piper J-3 Cub (shooting the Sopwith Camel), a Varga Kachina, a Fairchild PT-19 (first post restoration test flights), a Fairchild 24R46 (missing man), a Stinson 10a/L-9, a Porterfield CP-65 Collegiate, a Funk B-85c, my Bleriot XI replica (wing warper on the American Barnstormers Tour), a Cessna L-19 Birddog (giving formation duel), a Cessna 120 (doing a missing man on October 19th), a de Havilland Tiger Moth (test flights), a Waco YKS-6 (Oshkosh), and Frank Schelling's 1918 Curtiss JN-4H "Hisso" Jenny (I've given 124 rides in this airplane since 2003).

As PAX, a Grumman Goose (off the water shooting air-to-airs of a Grumman Duck), a Beech 18 (shooting the Lockheed Harpoon) a Beech Baron (shooting a "Razorback" and a "D" model P-51 in formation), a Travel Air 4000 (shooting another TA-4000, a PT-17 and a New Standard D-25).

Lots of cool photo sessions from the old reliable Piper Clipper including a Rose Parrakeet, a Piper Apache on floats, a Grumman Albatros, a Stinson 108-3 on floats, a Whitman Tailwind, and Hap Arnold's DC-3/C-41.

Still to be flown this year, the Sopwith Camel, maybe a Sopwith Tabloid or two, and........

It's been a good safe year.

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Fly low. Fly slow, Fly safe.

That's me in a KR-31


Flew the Waco GXE, not the Model A

Also Stearman, Tiger Moth, two Birds and a few others... It was a great summer!

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Steve
www.eaglesmereairmuseum.org
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