Warbird pilots.

Clay Lacy (retired airline pilot, air racer, warbird pilot/owner, antique restorer, film pilot, charter company owner, etc, etc) has 53,000 hours and is still current in his Snoopy P-51.

He was recently flying the Museum of Flight’s DC-2 and is now working on a Boeing C-97 (not a KC-97) that he wants to turn into a civil schemed Boeing Stratocruiser airliner.

He sure as hell aint the tallest……………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quality he has, elevation not.

Napoleon: [to the Bandits] You are the best thing to happen to me since this whole campaign. You know I come here to conquer Italy, because I thought they were all small. You know, I hear they was really tiny guys…

The Time Bandits.

Stu Goldspink aims to be the mostest warbird pilot. 😀

He sure as hell aint the tallest……………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quality he has, elevation not.

Cheers,

Trapper 69
:diablo:

Paul ‘Major’ Day must be up there, and the late, great Ray Hanna must hold some kind of record of flying aircraft (low) in service which are now regarded as warbirds, then continuing to fly them as warbirds, later! In terms of display hours (the Red Arrows Gnat is now a ‘warbird’) again he’d be up there.

Bob Hoover would also have a lot of display hours, including significant P-51 time.

Stu Goldspink aims to be the mostest warbird pilot. 😀

Swedish pilot Bertil Gerhardt has 30 000 hours in total. Though a majority not on warbirds – at least, they were not considered warbirds at the time! 😉

Today he flies Spitfire, P-51, Vampire, Saab Safir, Saab J 29, Auster, just to mention a few.

Steve Hinton

JOHN ROMAIN
500 hours on spits (completed at the flying legends weekend) 🙂
not to mention any of the following
blenheim
chipmunk
harvard
hurricane
ME108
ME109
buchon
P51
T28
T33
corsair
bulldog
tigermoth
beech 17
beech 18
P2
mitchel
avro 504
flycatcher
stearman
yak 52
yak 50
MH1521
catalina
cub
storch
lysander
and I bet I have missed a few:o

Lee Lauderback 5000 + hours P-51 Mustang