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03-08-2015, 01:32 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Port Orange, FL
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Drinking under the big wing
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Ted Chang, VAF #681
RV-9A #91048, flying since 8/2006. 2,050 hrs.
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Last edited by tc1234c : 03-08-2015 at 02:06 PM.
Reason: B-25 instead of B-24
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03-08-2015, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Landing field "12VA"
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Nice!!! But that's not a Lib
B-24 is a high wing with 4 engines. That looks like a Mitchell, or B-25. Still an awesome sight on the ramp.
Did they let you fly fighter escort when they left? I'd have told them my N-number stood for "Little Friend" and that would get me in the slot for sure
-Stormy, whose Dad crewed a B-24 until the Luftwaffe brought it down and kept him as a guest of the Third Reich.
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03-08-2015, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Clearwater, Florida
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Panchito used to be in an association with a warbird restoration outfit in Central Florida. You could take a week long hands on class in warbird restoration on whatever they had in the shop, T-6's, Stearmans', whatever. At the end of the week, you got about a 2 hour hop in the jump seat of Panchito. Not a bad deal.
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03-08-2015, 02:12 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Port Orange, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Boyd
B-24 is a high wing with 4 engines. That looks like a Mitchell, or B-25. Still an awesome sight on the ramp.
Did they let you fly fighter escort when they left? I'd have told them my N-number stood for "Little Friend" and that would get me in the slot for sure
-Stormy, whose Dad crewed a B-24 until the Luftwaffe brought it down and kept him as a guest of the Third Reich.
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Thank you for the correction. I have no idea how long they were staying. By the time I taxied away they have not started fueling yet. It would be cool to fly escort 
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Ted Chang, VAF #681
RV-9A #91048, flying since 8/2006. 2,050 hrs.
2018 Due paid
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03-08-2015, 02:45 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: WV22
Posts: 849
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Not the kind of drinking I was expecting but, envious just the same! 
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03-08-2015, 02:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Meridian ID, Aspen CO, Okemos MI
Posts: 2,645
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Wow Ted is all I can say. Wow!
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Williamston MI
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03-08-2015, 03:29 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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This is awesome! You surely have fun there in Florida.
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03-09-2015, 06:49 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Novi, MI & Venice, FL
Posts: 66
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There was an article in the Venice paper recently with Dick Cole who was Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot. He is 97 or so, still actively getting out and about. There were 80 crew who took off for the B-25 attack on Tokyo. Only 3 or 4 are still with us.
Certainly a "great generation".
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Just a wishful observer
Gave up awaiting AOPA/EAA exemption request
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03-09-2015, 07:20 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Townsend, Montana
Posts: 3,179
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Hey...I've got a picture like that taken I'm Dumas TX. We were racing daylight going to Llano or may have waited for them, for fighter duty photos. It was funny, we were taking their pics and the crew was taking ours.

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03-09-2015, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central IL
Posts: 5,516
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hydroguy2
. . . . It was funny, we were taking their pics and the crew was taking ours.
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And that is the way it should be - everybody wins!
I better get back to work now.
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Lord Kelvin:
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about,
and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you
cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge
is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.”
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