‘American Storm’, the opening song on Bob Seger’s ‘Like a Rock’ album, meant as a tribute to John Belushi and an anti-drug song, it just flat out ROCKS and cranked up blows the windows outta your car…a great opening song on a very good album, tho most will remember it for the title cut ‘Like a Rock’ which Chevy picked up for an almost 15 year ad campaign….

Mark

I play drums…played in a band in Denver called ‘Scotland Yard’ for a while….got a friend here in Greeley who plays Stevie Ray Vaughn style blues guitar and his father once or twice filled in for Carlos Santana’s sick drummer….he has a pic of him sitting on Carlos knee aged about 3 years old…

Mark

One of the pilots in the NEW ‘King Kong’ movie was none other than aviation Artist Jim Dietz, and one of the back seat gunners was Jackson himself, having lost quite a bit of weight…I thought the planes looked spectacular and it was nice to hear that he used the same type of planes as the 1930’s original film did, albeit creating 2 static examples and the rest CGI…I think the whole movie is amazing and could’nt wait to add it to my collection, which it is now firmly entrenched in…

Mark

As I recall, Robert Conrad learned to at least Taxi the Corsairs used in the TV show ‘Black Sheep Squadron’ after meeting Boyington and being inspired by him….later he did learn to fly also, but don’t know if he ever actually flew a Corsair in the series…

So should we start a celebrity warbird thread now? Who has owned what and flown it….I know actor Cliff Robertson owned a Spitfire that used to be based at Kalamazoo a number of years ago, don’t know what happened to it….

John Travolta and his collection of planes that he flies….

Gary Numan and his T-6 and Yak….

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd and his P-51, now moved on I hear…

Michael Dorn of ‘Star Trek’ fame (Worf) used to fly jet warbirds….

Any others we’re missing?

M

Anyone happen to see issue #8 of Warbird Digest yet? There’s this little article on a group out here in Colorado called ‘Airpower West’, some of our local pilots and planes who banded together to start their own group free from what was then being perceived as the tyranny of the CAF (since then thay’ve made peace)….I’m told the photography is very well done….forget who wrote the article…oh, that’s right…ME…and me and my partner Denise did all of the photography in it too…NOW it’s all coming back to me…..check it out and let me know what you think!

Mark and Denise…

Actually, about a week ago I saw a blurb on TV about Tom Cruise going to speak with a corp[orate body of folks at Yahoo!.com in southern California, and the part recorded and shown on TV showed him mentioning to the crowd that he’d just flown down in his P-51 to be at this event, and then he asked the crowd if they knew what a P-51 was and explained to them that it was a WWII fighter….from there the show showed a photo of a P-51 (not his) and then they went on about Katie Holmes and her pregnancy…

Mark

Well, the Cafeteria was better than Hendon’s….don’t remember much about the gift shop at EITHER location tho I know I did visit them…

M

MINE!! Sorry….forgot about it….had to come back to the states in a hurry and forgot all about it….my bad. Someone kick the tires for me and clear out the bird’s nests and I’ll be right down there for it….top her off with gas, will need it……ahhh, where’s my head these days, forgetting my plane like that….this alzheimer’s is kickin my ass….

M