Any fliers?

"Tom Swift" wrote in message
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Started in a Thomas-Morse-Boeing MB-3 Scout, then
Curtiss JN-4
Curtiss Tanager
Piper Cub
Aeronca
Waco
Howard
N3N
SNJ
Lysander
AT-7, 9,10,11
B-24
B-25
A-26
B-17
B-47
C-45
Beech 18
C-46
C-47
C-54
C-97
T-29
Sabreliner
KingAir
Staggerwing Beech

Uh, Tom, just how old are you?

On Tue, 18 May 2004 15:30:11 GMT, "Tom Swift"
wrote:

Started in a Thomas-Morse-Boeing MB-3 Scout,

Now, THAT'S impressive!

all the best -- Dan Ford
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I saw in Galland's book that he called them 'kites' but none of the
pilots I've interviewed called them anything other than a "Me" or "Turbo".

Probably a British translator....

I wonder what term he used in German? If the translator was doing his
job, it had to be some sort of slang.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Tom Swift" wrote in message
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Started in a Thomas-Morse-Boeing MB-3 Scout, then
Curtiss JN-4
Curtiss Tanager
Piper Cub
Aeronca
Waco
Howard
N3N
SNJ
Lysander
AT-7, 9,10,11
B-24
B-25
A-26
B-17
B-47
C-45
Beech 18
C-46
C-47
C-54
C-97
T-29
Sabreliner
KingAir
Staggerwing Beech

You got me outnumbered! BTW, what's a Howard? Anything to do with Bevo Howard?

George Z.

"George Z. Bush" wrote in message
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| "Tom Swift" wrote in message
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| Started in a Thomas-Morse-Boeing MB-3 Scout, then
| Curtiss JN-4
| Curtiss Tanager
| Piper Cub
| Aeronca
| Waco
| Howard
| N3N
| SNJ
| Lysander
| AT-7, 9,10,11
| B-24
| B-25
| A-26
| B-17
| B-47
| C-45
| Beech 18
| C-46
| C-47
| C-54
| C-97
| T-29
| Sabreliner
| KingAir
| Staggerwing Beech
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| You got me outnumbered! BTW, what's a Howard? Anything to do with Bevo
Howard?
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| George Z.
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Even half of that is an impressive resume. The Lysander still
intrigues me.




Cheers


Dave Kearton

"Dave Kearton" ozemail.com.au wrote in message
| You got me outnumbered! BTW, what's a Howard? Anything to do with Bevo
Howard?
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| George Z.
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Even half of that is an impressive resume. The Lysander still
intrigues me.

The Howard DGA (Damn Good Airplane) 18 K was a Trainer- Low weing for the
Civilan Pilot Training (CPT), program.

Flew Lysanders out of UK, all night missions

Even half of that is an impressive resume. The Lysander still
intrigues me.


See, see? Everyone loves the Lysander. Please share a yarn or two, Tom - I
think the only Lysander story I even know is about Julia Child flying around in
one during her time as an OSS operative.

v/r
Gordon

"Tom Swift" wrote in message
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"Dave Kearton" ozemail.com.au wrote in message
| You got me outnumbered! BTW, what's a Howard? Anything to do with
Bevo
Howard?
|
| George Z.
|
|


Even half of that is an impressive resume. The Lysander still
intrigues me.

The Howard DGA (Damn Good Airplane) 18 K was a Trainer- Low weing for the
Civilan Pilot Training (CPT), program.

Flew Lysanders out of UK, all night missions

As a cadet in the ATC I got a flight in a Lysander out of Hendon, way back
longer than I care to remember :-))

BMC

Paul J. Adam wrote:

You mean there are actually people who don't like the BUFF?

I can think of some North Vietnamese, Iraqi and Serbian folk who would
hold that opinion, yes.

They just know us that well....or maybe they know us better than anyone


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

Ed Rasimus wrote:

Barnett yelled for his lieutenant to clean up his airplane and go
home. And, that's when Bill Ricks began to drink.


Thanks Ed, that gave me a good laugh. Now for a "Buffoonary" type combat tale.

It was the second night of penetration sorties into Yugoslavia with three
2-ships of BUFFs doing airborne alert inderdiction missions in Kosovo. Out of
the 30 aircrew airborne, only the 2nd formations lead A/C had any "real" combat
time having logged a few DESERT STORM sorties. I had recently gotten a new EW
as I "upgraded" from a very junior EW to my squadrons most experienced
instructor EW. My "old" EW was now flying on the lead jet of the 2nd formation
with our DS vet. There was a large fielded area that apparently had some
activity in it and the Airborne Forward Air Controller ordered all 6 BUFFs to
hit it. After some confusion on who would go first, our DS vet and his
formation pressed to the target. His #2 jet had a very inexperienced crew with
a fairly new co-pilot and a brand new A/C. About one minute from release an
SA-6 was fired at the formation. Knowing it was an optical shot and knowing it
would not be a threat to the formation, our steely eyed DS vet made no
maneuvers and no calls to the formation. He, however, advised his crew that an
SA-6 had been launched but would be no factor. His diligent EW (my former EW)
decided it would be wise to tap out a few bundles of chaff...just in case. What
came out of the jet was not chaff, the EW hit the fast train flare button and
put out 193 flares, turning night into day, highlighting the formation and
blinding the two pilots in the #2 jet who were also on NVGs. I was about 30
miles away and saw the sun come up at approximately 0200 local time. When all 6
jets got back on the ground *nearly* everyone had a hell of a laugh, the only
two who didn't were the two pilots in the #2 jet who swore they were still
seeing "stars".


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"