Dan wrote:
On Mar 10, 8:00 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Dan wrote:
On Mar 10, 6:36 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Dan wrote:
On Mar 10, 6:08 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Dan wrote:
On Mar 10, 5:09 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Dan wrote:
On Mar 10, 1:18 pm, wrote:
If you can stand a single holer, there's this (with rudder peds):
http://www.theminicoupe.com/_wsn/page2.html
Not many flying I think. Looks fun though.
Now that's.. mini.
Dan
Mooney made something way back when called the Mite. I flew it a couple
of times. That thing was small; little single seater; not a bad aileron
roll either :-))
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Dudley Henriques
The mite! I think there's one at my home field (or so I'm told --
never saw it fly).
How about the Bede-5?
;-)
Dan
Never flew the BD5, but my friend started to build one. He got caught up
in the mess that was Jim Bede's engine woes. Never finished it.
Corkey Fornof is an old friend. Cork flew the BD5J through the hangar in
the James Bond movie "Occtopussy"
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Dudley Henriques
Now that was an awesome scene...
When I was a kid there's was only one plane for me -- the BD-5J.
Thank God for maturity!
Dan
Cork says the hardest thing about the scene was figuring the shock wave
bounce back off the interior hangar walls as he flew the airplane
through. His team brought in a physics whiz (not Tucker BTW :-) who ran
the numbers and came up with the exact amount they had to open the side
windows to keep the shock from bouncing back on the aircraft as he went
through. If that happened, he would have been killed.
You're right, it was a great stunt. Cork has done a lot of them in
different movies. He and his dad Bill Fornof were both charter members
of the IFPF which I founded. Great people the Fornofs.
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Dudley Henriques
IFPF -- do you know Buck Buchanan?
I don't think so. IFPF was the International Fighter Pilots Fellowship.
Google IFPF History for a skinny.

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Dudley Henriques

oops..ok..wrong group...

Found the link. Quite an elite group!

Doug Bader?!?

An old friend and charter member of the IFPF. Don't know if you are
asking who he was or not, but Douglas is well known as the legless ace
of the Battle of Britain.

To me, he was much more than that. One of the finest people I have ever
known, Douglas devoted his entire life to helping the physically
impaired, especially amputee children.

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Dudley Henriques