Welcome to my neck of the woods, Brych!! Also while you’re in Denver, if it’s not too late to write you, stop in at Centennial Airport in south Denver on the weekend and see some of the boys playing with their toys…numerous T-6’s down there, Joe Thidodeau’s Sea Fury ‘Sky Hawk’ and his P-51D Mustang ‘Crusader’, lots of Staggerwings and twin Beeches (you just missed our Skyraider which was used in Flight of the Intruder, it was sold on to Houston)…we have a fly-in at Front Range airport at the end of June (26 and 27), LOTS of stuff there including all the above And Bill Greenwood’s T. Mk. 9 Spitfire is usually in attendance…Plenty to see and do in Colorado…hope you have a good trip!

Mark Morris

Rex Beisel, for obvious reasons…my grandfather worked for him.

Sydney Camm, always did like his big, burly planes…

Ed Heinemann, for making the most successful Naval dive bomber of the war, the SBD and later the A-4 Skyhawk, a great little plane…

And dare I forget Kelly Johnson…always at the TOP of the aircraft design game…

Mark

I still think they ought to drop the flaps on the Corsair like it’s making an approach to the Carrier for landing…she’d look better…

Mark

Oh, let’s see….well, we have to first start with Multiple T-6 rides and photo shoots ALONGSIDE other flying aircraft like the Firefly, B-17 and -24, Corsair, Mustang, P-40, Albatross, BT-13’s, Spitfire, TBM, Staggerwing, other T-6’s…..but as for what I’ve actually BEEN up in:

B-17 ‘Shady Lady’
B-25 ‘Silver Lady’
B-25 ‘Can Do/Buck’
2 T-28’s
T-6’s (numerous)
Twin Beeches
Staggerwing
BT-13
Lockheed Harpoon
Cessna 140

Sure I’m forgetting some but that is the short list.
Mark

God, I wanted to see the Heinkel in it’s new paint scheme…she looked great in photos…

I think last time I was at Midland we had 4 B-17’s, and they did a night show…well, dusk…’Journey’, ‘Raiders’, ‘Thunderbird’, and Doc Hospers ‘Chuckie’…great stuff….and the most 17’s I’ve seen in one place…

Mark

She (MH434) is just a beauty…fun to see the pics 4,000 miles away from DX and feel like I was right there, only 24 hours later.

Mark

Who? Guess not…

mark

Melvyn mentions Indian food…I do recall the first dinner we had in the UK was indian food, a proper ‘Balti’ at my friend Steve’s local indian restaurant…very good stuff, had a lamb dish myself…have yet to do it again since returning to the states, it just never occurs to me…but it was good.

I wonder….do the British know how much of a hit their brand of comedy is over here, from Monty to Fawlty to Benny and all the others and in-betweens? What ever happened to Dave Allen at Large? And is there ONE woman in the world that understands the unique appeal of Monty Python to guys? Methinks not….but i could be wrong…

Mark