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Re: What got you hooked on Warbirds...........?
Posted by Steve Tournay on Wed Nov 21, 2001 09:03:13 PM
In reply top Re: What got you hooked on Warbirds...........? posted by Steve Tournay on Wed Nov 21, 2001 09:02:07 PM
: Hi Tony et al...
:
: Let's see: I was already intrigued by aircraft (World Wa
: r 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 recentl
: y-acquired B-25 once, but what I think threw the switch wa
: s a peek through the window in the "man-door" on
: Hgr#4 one afternoon when the hangar wasn't open. I well re
: call 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 m
: echanical ability)! But then enthusiasm plays no favourite
: s...it infects whomever it chooses!
:
: Steve