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  • September 9, 2004 at 5:32 pm in reply to: Really, no, no REALLY Authentic Warbird Schemes #1558039
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    Oooof….this restriction on saying ****…ok…RICHARD Hansen’s P-40….how the hell do you guys order the spotted **** at a pub over there?

    Mark

    September 9, 2004 at 5:30 pm in reply to: Really, no, no REALLY Authentic Warbird Schemes #1558042
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    **** Hansen’s P-40 in the flat scheme, VERY close to what they would’ve looked like at Pearl on a certain sunday.
    The CAF’s Corsair, painted up as M.O. Chance’s aircraft, glossy just as they would’ve been at that time of the war for speed and ease of maintenance.

    Mark

    September 9, 2004 at 5:57 am in reply to: Sea Fury to Reno #1558701
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    Steve will be in the REVERED company of his ‘weird friend’ Stew Dawson and his Sea Fury, the ever redoubtable Howard Pardue (he owns oil) and Denver based warbird owner Joe Thibodeau, who owns the former Charlie Hilliard Sea Fury but can’t fly it because of a problem with a newly installed engine which forces him to attend Reno in his JUST restored P-51D Mustang ‘Crusader’ (see photo)….we will be attempting to get photos of this Mustang for an upcoming article in Warbird Digest, along with some other Colorado birds….

    Mark

    September 9, 2004 at 5:48 am in reply to: A Salute to the T-6!! #1558703
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    Hey CrazyMainer-

    That one in your batch of pics, the one with the red bands/tail and the number ’02’ on it….any chance that one is new to your area and used to belong to a guy named John Reynolds and used to be based at Aspen?

    Mark

    September 8, 2004 at 5:59 pm in reply to: Digi Camera Problem #1559005
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    Yes….buy a Canon film camera…. shoot the film, take the film out, process it, scan in the pics….works the same.

    Sorry….not very helpful I know…see the thread I started on Digital vs. Film cameras and weigh in…

    Mark

    September 8, 2004 at 5:53 pm in reply to: A Salute to the T-6!! #1559019
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    Ewwwww…..:(

    September 8, 2004 at 5:52 pm in reply to: Battle of Britain Day approaches… #1559023
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    Um….excuse my confusion….is this a different Bill Reid than the one I’m familiar with? I thought Bill Reid died, but I’m thinking Bill Reid who won the VC flying a Lanc….did’nt he pass on a few years ago? Met him at DX in 2000, nice guy…if he’s still alive I’ll be all the happier!

    Mark

    September 8, 2004 at 5:43 pm in reply to: A Salute to the T-6!! #1559067
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    Mk.12-

    That would HAVE to be Rifle…Aspen don’t look like that…
    Amazing how little the plane really changed aside from the addition of American markings and a new coat of paint…he named her ‘Old Timer’ with an ersatz pic of him leaning against the prop as nose art…David is the highest time T-6 pilot in the world, having trained Brit pilots and later Yanks in WWII in Alabama…he sold the T-6 in about 1994…
    Bill Greenwood’s T.Mk.9 Spit in the background acting as the contraprop?

    Mark

    September 8, 2004 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Warhawks and Girls (you'll wanna see this…) #1559125
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    Check the photos again….they took the stilettos off and did it barefoot….I seem to recall something about how they imbedded them in the eyes of a hangar rat who was looking on as the pics were shot…..

    Mark

    September 8, 2004 at 4:18 pm in reply to: A Salute to the T-6!! #1559166
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    ……and Ed Huber in the FIRST T-6G model ever made (the shot over the lake)…

    September 8, 2004 at 4:16 pm in reply to: A Salute to the T-6!! #1559168
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    By the way, the T-6 pilots in my pics are **** Jones and David Fain of Denver and Jerry Flesher and Whitey Wannemacher of Colorado Springs…..the first T-6 picture (landing) is taken at Breckenridge, TX and I don’t know who’s plane it is…

    Mark

    September 8, 2004 at 4:54 am in reply to: Sea Fury to Reno #1560024
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    Say Hi to Joe Thibodeau if you see him before I do….he’s taking the Mustang, you say?

    Mark

    September 8, 2004 at 4:51 am in reply to: The first Warbird you saw fly! #1560026
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    Oh, I only WISH I had a photo of the first warbird(s) I saw….it was in 1976 in Denver, I was crossing the street towards my house and looking east, when I heard this huge drone coming towards me….and it was’nt one plane, not two or three….I’m guessing it was about 12 of them, led by a B-17 and including ALL different kinds…but the only one I remember for SURE was the B-17 in the lead….they flew right over me and to the west and slowly banked to the south…apparently there was a CAF show in town that weekend (I did’nt get to go) and this was their way of promoting the show….absolutely awesome.

    Mark

    September 7, 2004 at 10:50 pm in reply to: Catalinas #1560212
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    Mark 12-

    Great stuff, must’ve been VERY memorable indeed! I know Connie Edwards, spent a whole weekend with him at Breckenridge one year not too long ago (think it was ’94) when he brought the Albatross and my Photographer friend’s daughter befriended his stepson Nick, and she wound up going flying with them in the Grumman, dropping in on Hubbard reservoir near Breckenridge, and the kids got out and went swimming while Mom circled over head taking pictures! Connie is a bit eccentric, one of the last of the ‘Martin Caidin’ type aviators…but he’s still around and still a helluva nice guy…long may he fly.

    Mark

    September 7, 2004 at 12:52 am in reply to: Tug Boat Bits #1561183
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    Hmmmm…such overwhelming interest…maybe should go to more girlie shots like my other post ‘Warhawks and Girls’….but anyway, yes, the left pic is a Corsair canopy (my friend tells me the pieces DO go together but are not from the same plane), and the right photo is a gauge panel from an F6F Hellcat that he pulled up from the gulf….he has other bits but I have no pics of them.

    Mark

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