Dudley

Have you checked your e-mail?

Would like to go off line to cover some things that happened that you
might not know about and would be interested in hearing.

Had forgotten Dave's name. He came and talked for several years.
Bottom l;ine was to wear gloves and not take your mask or helmet off
until you were clear of any fire. Never had to do that but took his
words to heart.

Great personality and didn't let his gross looks bother him. I met but
did not know him well.

Have been thinking about the twins. Something happened to them I think
but can't remember.

I sent a 'test' to the e-mail address you show on top of your posts
but no reply. If that is not a good address let me know.

Big John


On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:47:40 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:


"Big John" wrote in message
.. .
Dudley

Yep. Scott was CO for a year or so.Think he went to Washington when he
left?

That's right. It was there he got in trouble with the brass and then ended
up back at Luke.

We had jets at Willie but he had a P-51 that was pre-flighted
and pulled out in front of Base Ops every day. Never saw it
fly!!!!!!!!!!! I tried to get to fly it an hour a week to keep gaskets
in Merlin from going bad but no luck.

You would have liked it. I flew one for several years on the airshow
circuit. Great bird! Fun, like the 86!

You of course remember Leon (the Peon) Gray? Training Group Commander?
Lots of stories about him but not the place or time G

Just by reputation! Remember, I'm a civilian who just happens to have flown
a lot of military airplanes. I can't claim the official military time you
guys can.....although I seem to remember having a form 5 floating around
here somewhere with some "unofficial" time on it. I'm afraid all of my
thousands of hours in airplanes, were spent as a lowly civilian!!!
I understand the place and time though. Sort of like Creech in that respect
:-))

Don't remember the deaths you asked about.

Bill Spruance and Dave McAllister were coming back to Delaware in a T-Bird
in 61. They stopped at Scott to refuel. On takeoff, they flamed out. Dave
was killed outright and Spruance was burned so badly they gave him the last
rights at the crash site. He survived. He gave lectures for years on flight
safety issues. Dave was the CO of the 142nd FS Delaware ANG and a great guy.
His family was in the food catering business and manufactured the best damn
snapper soup ever to see the light of day. Dave used to fill the gun bays of
his F86H and fly the stuff all over the country to his buddies.

Sounds like me. I used to fill a cargo tank on a T-bird with live
lobsters and deliver them to friends when I had to make a trip west
from Maine G

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