Not gonna get in a big row over this…it’s just a website and when he gets time, he gets time….I know Mike and I don’t maintain http://www.f4ucorsair.com half as much as we’d like to with updates and such, so I know how it gets….Ben, when you get to it, great….I’ll keep checking…and maybe take a peek at Duxford times also.

Mark

If it’s WWII era, Japan wafflestomps the Brits…as they did in real life….modern day, the Brits probably do better, for the above stated reason, and others….

Mark

what time frame?

Hmmmm….sounds like he’s slacking on BOTH websites to me….maybe needs to close down FlyVintage and just concentrate on the other one….?

M

Sounds to me like you’re thinking about the wreck of Joe Tobul’s Corsair, which was in late 2002, he crashed his F4U-4 Corsair in some trees away from some houses that had been in his path after another pilot noticed him trailing smoke from his engine and he apparently lost power…he WAS credited with steering the plane away from any homes or places that anyone might be residing….check his site, http://www.koreanwarhero.com for more…
Bluenoser, did you get the note I posted for you about a week ago about a Mustang out here in CO that is gonna be restored in 352nd colors? It’s an ex-Dominican AF Mustang that is being rebuilt from parts and 25% of an original airframe, it will be painted as GR-P, ‘Three of Hearts’, and is owned by Gordon Page of Denver….I can send the paint scheme if you like…let me know…

Mark

Converse’s mother’s plane was ‘The Huntress’ and set a record flying from Denver to Colorado Springs and back….a record that Converse himself broke in his P-51 ‘Huntress III’ about 15 years ago….but I believe his mother flew an A-26, if I recall correctly….

To get Martin Caidin’s take on the whole women in warbirds situ….”I’m all for women in flying…I always have room in my plane for 110 pounds of recreational equipment….”

Not very PC these days….but Caidin, like Hunter S. Thompson, WAS’NT very PC….thank god…

Mark

The man from Woody Creek, Colorado who had a worldwide following….and I’m not talking about John Denver here….

Incredibly sad news, this guy was one helluva character out in this neck of the woods, I sat watching the news last night with my jaw in my lap, not believing what I was hearing….he will be INCREDIBLY missed not just in Colorado but all over the states and beyond, I believe….I still like Bill Murray’s impression of him in ‘Where the Buffalo Roam’ though Johnny Depp was good too…

Mark