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Re: Cliff Robertson's Mk IX Spitfire
Posted by T J Johansen on Sun Jul 07, 2002 09:03:34 PM
In reply top Re: Cliff Robertson's Mk IX Spitfire posted by Dan Jones on Thu Jul 04, 2002 11:02:04 PM
: : I was just going through some of my grandfathers old iss
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: : s of Sport Aviation and came across a photo of Cliff Rob
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: : tson. The photo depicts him in the cockpit of a P-51 sip
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: : ng on a glass of champagne...toasting his first solo in
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: : -51...I think it was Paul 1 but I could be wrong.
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: : Jim
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: I'm not sure which Mustang that he did train and solo in,
: but I believe Gordon Plaskett and a young Steve Hinton wer
: e his instructors.
Seem to remember from Air Classics in the early 80?s that Cliff Robertson flew N4151D on a couple of training sessions with Plaskett when he owned that TF-51D!
T J Johansen