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06-10-2008, 12:39 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 45
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Thanks so much!
Pat, that is really beautiful! As a former military pilot who until last year had not flown since 1973, I sent it to my young-adult children to try to help them understand my "new-found" enthusiasm for flying again. You really expressed my emotions well; thank you. And, hats off to your dad - what a special thing to be able to share with him. Unfortunately, some of us can't any more.
John
P.S. Love the references to our forefathers in flight.
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06-10-2008, 02:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Corvallis Oregon
Posts: 3,547
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wow!
Very, very nice!!!
Frank
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06-10-2008, 05:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 57
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Cecil B. deBonzo
It's a home run! The QBs are watching it tonight.
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Dave Dollarhide
Dreamland Squadron
Haller Airpark, FL 7FL4
RV-4
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06-10-2008, 08:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 188
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That was one of the best home movies I've ever seen - RV related or otherwise. Thanks so much for sharing. Brings back memories of flying with my Dad in his -6A.
One question: I have zero formation training, but is ABOVE and behind really the proper place for a wingman to be in an echelon formation? Seems like this would cause loss of sight to lead in many situations, especially in a low wing airplane. Not trying to rain on anyone's parade or take away from the beauty of the movie. Just trying to learn, as formation flying is something I want to pursue when I do ever get an RV in the air.
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Jeff
Wichita, Kansas
-7 Planning Kit
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06-10-2008, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 57
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Formation
Don't do it like that! That formation was all for the camera. I was looking at the view fiinder and telling Dave where to position himself for the video. Same with the tail shots. Dave was working hard trying to stay out of my
prop wash. Dave Dollarhide and I have been flying together in Navy jets or RV's for 30 years. Some of the stuff we do is "just for the movies". He worked a lot harder than I did. Anyway, Have fun with your plane and remember that to be a good formation pilot it is just practice, practice, and then some more practice. Pat
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06-10-2008, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Manstad, Norway
Posts: 866
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GREAT VIDEO!!
Thanks so much for sharing!
I'll second the other folks here: this was one of the best video's I've ever seen!
Your comments, the pics, the formation, the music and then your dad.
It was all juuuust great!
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Regards Alf Olav Frog / Norway
First RV-7 completed, (bought partly finished from a US-builder) 305 hrs per July 2014, SOLD
Second -7 had first flight Feb 25th 2014. 220 hrs pr July 2019. Life is good!
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06-11-2008, 06:02 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Gold Hill, NC25
Posts: 2,400
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Wow,
May I please have another.
I was all smiles till you threw your dad in there in the end, then I lost it.
Man, that was really something.
Thanks for making my day.
Best,
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Kahuna
6A, S8 ,
Gold Hill, NC25
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06-11-2008, 07:34 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Newport, TN
Posts: 7,496
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Great video and best of all, you made it with your father.
I lost my father about 12 years ago to a sudden heart attack.
Seize the moments you have now because there will come a day when they can happen no more!
Great video!
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06-11-2008, 08:34 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: TX32
Posts: 1,891
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O say can you see...
Awesome Video! My Dad took me to watch the first F16 test flight while stationed at Edwards in 74...13 years later I would be flying it! He has now flown with me in all my RV's and Rocket as well...Happy Fathers Day!
Thanks!
Smokey
HR2
This one always brings a tear to my eye...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hen1T...eature=related
Last edited by smokyray : 06-12-2008 at 08:14 AM.
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06-11-2008, 08:50 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 215
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Made my eyes wet.......
Wow, great movie editing as well as written/spoken word.
I gave my Dad (85 this year and USAAF P-47 driver) his first ride in my -8 last week. Your video and prose cemented the past to the present, as well as every avaitor's tie to those that have flow ahead of us. Well done, very well done. Any chance you'd post your narrative here?
Art in Asheville
N666AT
RV-8 Fastback/Slider
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