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Re: What got you hooked on Warbirds...........?

Posted by Steve Tournay on Wed Nov 21, 2001 09:02:07 PM

In reply top What got you hooked on Warbirds...........? posted by Tony on Tue Nov 20, 2001 11:58:30 AM

Hi Tony et al...

Let's see: I was already intrigued by aircraft (World War I stuff especially) when a cousin who had his PPL moved in with the family while doing his engineering degree; he used to take us up from Mt.Hope in Cherokees and the like. Now this was in the mid-70s, so CWH had recently arrived at Mt.Hope. I remember us taxiing out behind their recently-acquired B-25 once, but what I think threw the switch was a peek through the window in the "man-door" on
Hgr#4 one afternoon when the hangar wasn't open. I well recall the gleaming red spinner on the Firefly and the dull silver of the yet-unpainted TBM sitting there in the gloom...waiting. Funny how a brief glimpse like that can start a passion with such staying power, especially as I've not a hope of actual involvement with Warbirds (no money; no mechanical ability)! But then enthusiasm plays no favourites...it infects whomever it chooses!

Steve

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