I’m in a Fifth air force B-25 skip bombing ships or parafragging a Jap airstrip in the south pacific or in the cockpit of a Corsair flying alongside my old landlord Capt. John Foster (“Hell in the Heavens”) with VMF-222 or any other Corsair squadron out there….damn right I’d go…

Mark

Scary, isn’t it! It IS a great flick that is always fun to watch with folks who have never seen it before (it became a topic of discussion at work today amongst those who had seen it and those who had’nt….those who HAD reciting lines from it all day long….which tells you what a boring job I have….!) Good movies are never forgotten, great comedies are frequently quoted….

“It’s a mother lovin’ BEAUTIFUL movie…..and it’s GONNA be at the video store….”

Mark

Corsair…and it WILL one day happen, probably at Chino….been up in a bunch of others, tho, so that holds me over for now…

Mark

Interesting photo, Mk.12, of you? in front of the Spit….Greenwood had’nt changed the markings on her yet in your photo, she is still wearing the WK-C side codes as opposed to the RJ-M that she now wears….Greenwood makes the Jaunt EVERY year, same for Sun n Fun and same for Midland…providing the plane is airworthy.

Mark

Went for the second time 2 summers ago with friends from the UK who had never been before, they were utterly blown away by it and could’nt believe all that they saw…we wandered the ramp from the show center to the south and it took all afternoon to do, stopping and seeing things and talking with folks and watching the show (the thing that caught their interest the most was Jimmy Franklin with his Waco with a Jet engine on it!)
It is an experience not to be believed, even if you just limit yourself to the warbird area and do nothing else….but you don’t want to do that, there is SIMPLY too much to see…

Mark

“How come you ain’t helpin’ them fix the tank?”
“Ohhh, man…. I just drive ’em, I don’t know what makes ’em run….”

Just reminds me how much I long to add it to my collection…I think the whole movie is hilarious (“To a New Yorker like you, a Hero is some kinda weird samwich!”) and you DO have to take it with a grain of salt cuz that’s how it is presented…one of the great war comedies of all time with a great cast of characters (Once heard Don Rickles at a roast for Clint Eastwood talking about how he worked on this movie with Clint and joking how he NEVER got a decent movie roll ever again afterwards). I think it’s worth it’s weight in gold….but that’s just me!

Mark