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August 13, 2004 at 1:51 am in reply to: Sea Fury pics please. #1794878

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Here’s what I got…Joe Thibodeau’s Denver based Sea Fury ‘Sea Hawk’, race number 21…the former Jerry Janes Sea Fury ‘Cottonmouth’ at Aspen, circa 1992…our friend Mr. Patterson’s Sea Fury back when it was owned by George Baker and at the Denver Air Races…and the racer ‘Dreadnaught’ also at those same races in Denver, about 1990/91`…I have much more, but these were the more interesting of the lot…

Mark

August 13, 2004 at 1:23 am in reply to: Awaiting first flights. What's the latest? #1794928

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The Lone Star Hawker Hurricane out here in Colorado?

The Texas aircraft Factory Oscars?

Mark

August 13, 2004 at 1:12 am in reply to: Firefly Pics #1794978

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Eddie is flying the plane in these pics, don’t recall who did the test flights all spring but know it was someone from the UK…the guy in the back seat is a Brit by the name of Peter Broom who worked on the engine at a company out here called ‘Firewall Forward’, talked to them recently and asked about Pete and they said as far as they knew he was in jail in England!! Anyone know any more?

Mark

August 11, 2004 at 5:12 pm in reply to: One of my favourite pics #1798934

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I rather fancy this one of Jim Read’s F4U-5 Corsair being put through it’s paces by Dale ‘snort’ Snodgrass at some eastern US airshow…got it as my wallpaper on my computer…a great shot!

Mark

(Whoops…sorry, file too big….use your imagination!!)

August 11, 2004 at 4:40 pm in reply to: Supermarines Reunited #1798992

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I’ll give Eddie a call and see if it can be worked out…course, schedules may conflict, he still has’nt been able to hook up with Phil Makanna to get the Firefly shot for Phil’s calendar (got free calendars in 2002 for tipping Phil off to the Firefly’s existence, hee hee!) I was the first one to photograph the Firefly post restoration, out here in Colorado over the mountains…a great flight…we were supposed to form up with the Collings bombers for the photo flight, but Eddie had problems could’nt get the Firefly started until too late, the B-17 cruised on ahead so we could’nt catch it, so I photographed the B-24 first and then let it go and returned to the airport JUST as Eddie got the Firefly up and going and I shot 5 rolls of slide and 3 of print…and my photo shop processed the slide film as print and messed it all up (it looks very National Geographic, all the colors are kinda off) but the PRINT film came out beautifully…working on getting my scanner up and running here, will pass some along if I’m successful…

Mark

August 10, 2004 at 10:56 pm in reply to: Caption time again #1800433

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“Fancy ‘im….he’s thinks he’s Slim bloody Pickens!”

August 10, 2004 at 10:54 pm in reply to: P-51C rebuild #1800434

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Good to hear…and did’nt see the photo, so missed out on whatever that was about. Hope it flies again soon.

Mark

August 9, 2004 at 11:07 pm in reply to: My first air to air #1802930

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Good stuff for your first try!! Like the one with the sun under the wheel, and the Stearman break…keep it up and you’ll be selling them worldwide in no time!

Mark

August 8, 2004 at 7:10 am in reply to: The Biggest aeroplane of all time, Wing span 320ft(94.54-m),Combined 24000hp, Guess. #1806222

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You guys know, of course, that once they moved the Goose out of Long Beach, they used it’s former home as an indoor movie studion and did some filming in there for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’? I was out there touring the Queen Mary while the filming was going on, could’nt get inside the dome…

mark

August 3, 2004 at 10:41 pm in reply to: Triplane air to air #1812261

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Great photos…love the five ship shot…we have a replica here in Colorado of a Triplane along with an SE-5 and a DR VII, always fun to see at the airshows…agreed that the plane (the Triplane) was’nt the most fantastic thing in the air by war’s end, but it still had one HECK of a tight turning radius, which made it dangerous…like the Hurricane when fighting a Messerschmitt, turning was the way to survive….and also like the Hurricane, Wildcat, and P-40, not THE most spectacular plane ever built, but capable of doing it’s job until the ‘Biggers and Betters’ got there…

Mark

August 3, 2004 at 10:28 pm in reply to: Tom Cruise…..Reno air racer?? #1812337

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A Man’s plane…damn right…love the F2G shots…from OSH last year, perhaps? I have similar stuff from OSH last year…

Mr. Patterson, we should talk, I’m right next door to you location wise (Colorado) and may be doing some writing for a couple of magazines here soon…might do something on YOU…get ahold of me, Mark Morris, [email]corsair166b@yahoo.com…whos[/email]e Sea fury do you have, as in who used to own it? Looks like George Baker’s old one from the avatar…

Mark

August 2, 2004 at 11:20 pm in reply to: Stupid comments at airshows #1814488

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Well, let’s see if I can pull a few stories out of the vault…of course there’s the golden moldy oldie about a father and son watching a Confederate air show somewhere in America and they watch the B-29 taxiing past, the kid asks his dad “what kind of plane is that, Dad?” and the father replies “Well, that’s an F1F1.” (For those who have’nt seen her, the CAF’s B-29 displays her name ‘FiFi’ in large letters on the nose)..my own photographic partner Denise on our first jaunt to England asked our host “Why do they put targets on British planes?”…almost got us taken back to Heathrow for a premature trip home…..this same girl announced to me that she’d JUST heard that the CAF B-26 ‘Carolyn’ had crashed in Texas….TWO YEARS after it happened…
I know I have more but I can’t think of them right now…

Mark

July 31, 2004 at 1:49 am in reply to: For those who met George at Legends… #1816079

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Incredible stuff…good job to all involved…looks like ol George had a great day…hope others who were ‘behind the scenes’ get to get to shows like this and be treated as reverently…definitely one of the best posts post Duxford this year…

Mark

July 27, 2004 at 8:55 am in reply to: Which WWII aviator/s would you make a film about? #1827448

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Stormbird…Your Corsair sounds confused to me…if it has the skull and crossbones on the cowling and the number 29, you have Ira Kepford’s 16 kill Corsair that he flew with VF-17…but you say you have 28/32 kill flags? 28 would be what Boyington was credited with, and then the 32 sounds like David McCampbell’s score somewhere along the way, but he flew Hellcats..sounds like some extra decals got put on the plane, but I believe you have Kepford’s Corsair there…just like the one that used to fly from DX, only minus the tri-color paint scheme.

Mark

July 26, 2004 at 2:38 pm in reply to: Which WWII aviator/s would you make a film about? #1827942

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Do you mean David Lee ‘Tex’ Hill? I agree…great guy, one HELL of a drinker, would be great movie material….a story of some accuracy about ALL the tigers would be fantastic…

I think we can all agree that there are SO MANY great subjects for WWII films out there, not just pilots and crew but various types of missions…I’d love to see one on Kenney’s 5th air force and their skip bombing and parafrag bombing techniques, not to mention Pappy Gunn modifying all thge planes to carry massive amounts of machine guns and even 75mm tank cannons for anti shipping strikes….

Mark
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