Another warbird lost

On Feb 19, 2:42 pm, "Tri-Pacer" wrote:
" This makes me nuts. An irreplaceable Corsair is lost in an air race -



Hey it's his airplane to do with what he wants.

Cheers:

Paul
N1431A

Yeah, I know. It's a free country and all that... Still bugs me though

"Kingfish" wrote in message
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Yeah, I know. It's a free country and all that... Still bugs me though


Semi-free.

On Feb 19, 6:38 pm, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:
"Kingfish" wrote in message

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Yeah, I know. It's a free country and all that... Still bugs me though

Semi-free.

That's a whole other thread...

In article ,
"Tri-Pacer" wrote:

" This makes me nuts. An irreplaceable Corsair is lost in an air race -





Hey it's his airplane to do with what he wants.

I have a friend who has accumulated a whole warehouse full of warbird
parts and refuses to sell to racers. (It REALLY ****es them off!)

He has several P-51s (including a flyable H model), a Bearcat an a bunch
of antiques.

On Feb 19, 10:51�pm, Orval Fairbairn
wrote:
In article ,

*"Tri-Pacer" wrote:
" This makes me nuts. An irreplaceable Corsair is lost in an air race -

Hey it's his airplane to do with what he wants.

I have a friend who has accumulated a whole warehouse full of warbird
parts and refuses to sell to racers. (It REALLY ****es them off!)

He has several P-51s (including a flyable H model), a Bearcat an a bunch
of antiques.

Will he sell to ex-racers? HA!

Cool video. I was at those races (funny, thought it was in 95, not
94) and remember the crash well. Everybody in the crowd was yelling
"GET OUT!" as the Corsair was burning. When it went in, it was just
like a movie special effect. I think it impacted in the old GM
proving grounds, so no damage to anything on the ground, thank
goodness.

They also had MD-500 helicopter races that year. Three of them,
started from line-abreast hover. Funny as hell!

Too bad the races didn't come back to Phoenix after that.

As far as losing a warbird, it's like shooting down retired jets as
targets - beats being turned into pots and pans or gathering dust in
some dinky museum.

Kirk

In article .com,
"vlado" wrote:

On Feb 19, 10:51?pm, Orval Fairbairn
wrote:
In article ,

?"Tri-Pacer" wrote:
" This makes me nuts. An irreplaceable Corsair is lost in an air race -

Hey it's his airplane to do with what he wants.

I have a friend who has accumulated a whole warehouse full of warbird
parts and refuses to sell to racers. (It REALLY ****es them off!)

He has several P-51s (including a flyable H model), a Bearcat an a bunch
of antiques.

Will he sell to ex-racers? HA!

I don't know -- I DO know that he hates to see them modified, abused and
torn up.

" I have a friend who has accumulated a whole warehouse full of warbird
parts and refuses to sell to racers. (It REALLY ****es them off!)

He has several P-51s (including a flyable H model), a Bearcat an a bunch
of antiques.

Does he let people look and drool???

On Feb 20, 1:07 pm, "Tri-Pacer" wrote:
" I have a friend who has accumulated a whole warehouse full of warbird

parts and refuses to sell to racers. (It REALLY ****es them off!)

He has several P-51s (including a flyable H model), a Bearcat an a bunch
of antiques.

Does he let people look and drool???

I'd sit in the cockpit of his Mustang and make Merlin sounds... If
he'd let me

In article ,
"Tri-Pacer" wrote:

" I have a friend who has accumulated a whole warehouse full of warbird
parts and refuses to sell to racers. (It REALLY ****es them off!)

He has several P-51s (including a flyable H model), a Bearcat an a bunch
of antiques.

Does he let people look and drool???

You have to know him.