I've been holding out, I wanted to wait until the pictures got in.
Ron Rich invited me to go to the Take a Trojan to Lunch, bunch, lunch, at Napa last weekend. We flew formation over with Dan Dugan and his T28B. Freakin Awesome! I finaly got pictures of 242juliet in the air. Got to do formation flying, got to fly the T28 somemore, and Ron let me do the overhead break! That was the best yet. I screwed it up, but it was my first time, (note to self,the break is to shed speed, not do cool high speed turns over the airfield(remember that O.P.)). I was so hyped about making the first turn, that I forgot everything else, I didn't gain altitude, didn't slow down, didn't nothing. I'm blissfully blazing downwind at a half a zillion knots, I get to about C172 distance from base, high and extremely fast, I go to make the turn. Thats when Ron steps in and straightens my ass out. Slight turn back, a kinda long downwind, and we're back at LVK. While we were at Napa, Dick Milhous said he would fly out with us, very cool, I got some good pictures of a very nice T28. Also at Napa, Tom just got back from Osh Kosh, about an hour before, along with Paul ( I hope I got that right). Paul flys to Osh Kosh, Meets Mark Clark and a beautiful yellow T28, buys it, flys it back, nice effin rig, (the T28), I think we were the some of the first to see it in California. Thanks Ron, Dan, Dick, that was the best!
The last picture is from Dave Kerhonen via Dan Dugan. I like this picture. After seeing all of these pristine machines, 30-40-50 years after the fact, it's interesting (its cool) to see how they were actually used, when they were really used. In this picture we see Ensign Kerhonen, 1963, Whiting Field, Pensacola, standing in a puddle of oil, in front of the nastiest looking T28 in ten counties, in his borate empermeated flight suit. Dan said the flight suits when he went through were empermeated with borate as a fire retardant, they were red, they were hot, and they stunk. It looks like Ensign Kerhonen is wearing the same suit.
No Nomex
No Pre Oiler
No Oil scavenging
Enough rambling, pictures!
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I would hate to see what the mechanic looked like that worked on that machine.
