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Re: Gulfhawk (II?)
Posted by steve on Fri Sep 14, 2001 03:45:02 PM
In reply top Re: Gulfhawk (II?) posted by bdk on Fri Sep 14, 2001 12:07:43 PM
I stand corrected
: I believe the question was regarding a Bearcat in Gulfhawk
: colors that crashed and broke its back. I am not aware th
: at this has ever happened to N700A. N700A was also never t
: o my knowledge (at least since I first saw it at the Champ
: lin museum years ago) painted in orange, it was in a root
: beer brown (reddish brown, certainly not orange) color wit
: h black stripes.
:
: I don't have that issue of Flypast however, so I don't kno
: w which aircraft was pictured...
:
: Is this the aircraft in question?: http://www.crystalgraph
: ix.com/images/CGMG-04.jpg ????
:
: From: http://www.planesoffame.org/fighters.htm
: "Elmer Ward:
: F8F-2 Bearcat 'Gulfhawk 4th' - helped restore after crash
: at Oshkosh"
:
: From: http://www.caprok.net/warbirds/bearcat.htm
: Bearcat, F8F-2
: Gulfhawk 4th
: Wreck
: 121707
: Ward, Elmer
: Chino, CA
: NL3025; Crash 8/93; To rebuild later?
:
:
: Brandon
:
: :
: : Elmer Ward's Bearcat is Bu121707 N3025 the Bearcat in qu
: es
: : tion is N700A which is with Robert Pond's Planes of Fame
: E
: : ast and was the personal plane of Grumman pres. Roger Ka
: hn
: : until 1959 and I believe this is the only Gulfhawk mode
: l
: : still flyable and maybe the only still in existance
: : :
: : : : I can vaguely remember the front cover of Flypast qu
: it
: : e
: : : a
: : : : while back having a sort of before and after set of
: ph
: : ot
: : : os
: : : : of what I can recall what was a mainly orange and b
: la
: : ck
: : : c
: : : : oloured Bearcat (called 'Gulfhawk II'?), with an in
: fl
: : ig
: : : ht
: : : : shot of it on the cover and just inside a smaller c
: ap
: : ti
: : : on
: : : : ed photo of it post bellying in (made quite a mess,
: as
: : f
: : : ar
: : : : as I can recall, breaking her back, ouch!). I think
: t
: : ha
: : : t
: : : : it had an engine failure immediately after take off
: an
: : d
: : : th
: : : : e pilot had to put her down quick. I don't know if t
: hi
: : s
: : : is
: : : : the aircraft referred to but it has certainly got m
: e
: : re
: : : mi
: : : : nicing about the good old days of Flypast.