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  1. GCalo

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    #1 GCalo, Mar 26, 2007
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    There are certainly many nice folks I have met through FChat and this past weekend I had an opportunity to meet with Sparky-P51 and to see his amazing airplane.

    Sparky is a great person with a fascinating history, and if any of you have aviation interest you definitely want to meet him and to see his fabulous P-51. It's the best one I have seen, and that numbers a few.

    Have posted a few pictures.

    Sparky's the "old" guy on the right!

    Thanks for the piece of history, Sparky.
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  2. miketuason

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    #2 miketuason, Mar 26, 2007
    Greg that's a very nice P-51, does Sparky keeps that thing on a Tender?
     
  3. GCalo

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    #3 GCalo, Mar 26, 2007
    No but he is very "tender" in his care of it!!!

    It is regularly flown and is sponsored by Jelly Belly.
     
  4. ferraridude615

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    #4 ferraridude615, Mar 26, 2007
    I had no idea :). Does he get free jellybeans?
     
  5. GCalo

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    #5 GCalo, Mar 26, 2007
    First thing he offered me after he opened his hangar!

    His son is a corp Citation 10 pilot who flies the P-51 regularly.

    Great person and a must-see airplane.

    It was flown in the Tuskeegee Airmen movie and Lawrence Fishburn was it's movie "pilot".
     
  6. Rifledriver

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    #6 Rifledriver, Mar 26, 2007
    No he's not. He won't let me fly it.

    Good thing it was that one. Some of the others got shot down.
     
  7. GCalo

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    #7 GCalo, Mar 26, 2007
    Actually his was the "one" that was to have been shot down.
     
  8. sparky p-51

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    #8 sparky p-51, Mar 27, 2007
    Nice pix Greg. Looks like you just ate something hot and in the company of a really ugly guy with nice hair. Brian Crall can come fly the 51 anytime he wishes just so long as I get to drive his TR to Hawaii & back. Battery tenders, boy do we got battery tenders. Nice visiting with you and your wife Calo. You guys and Brian are welcome anytime.
     
  9. rivee

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    #9 rivee, Mar 28, 2007
    Sparky, where's it hangered?

    Brian, you dummy. You can't fly airplanes. There's no cocktail glass holders in the cockpits.
     
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    #10 sparky p-51, Mar 28, 2007
    Nut Tree Airport, Vacaville. We can adapt cup holders out of any suv.
     
  11. GCalo

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    #11 GCalo, Mar 28, 2007
    I have 360/430 cup holders.

    Will those do?

    I don't think it's a case of Brian not knowing how to fly it.

    I just think we'd have trouble squeezing him into the cockpit!!!
     
  12. Rifledriver

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    #12 Rifledriver, Mar 28, 2007

    Adapt, Improvise and Overcome.

    My kinda guy. Can you do a slow roll without spilling like Hoover?
     
  13. GCalo

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    #13 GCalo, Mar 28, 2007
    I don't care what anyone says, Sparky is OK!!!

    Great family, too.
     
  14. sparky p-51

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    #14 sparky p-51, Mar 28, 2007
    ABSOROOTLY.
     
  15. GCalo

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    #15 GCalo, Mar 28, 2007

    Sparky,

    I think Brian meant while flying the A/P not you after a few drinks!!!
     
  16. Rifledriver

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    #16 Rifledriver, Mar 28, 2007
    24 hours from bottle to throttle....sheesh. What do they think we are anyway?

    I drink out of a glass so it's no problem.

    Greg Boyington just sprinkled tobacco in his eyes so he wouldn't nod off while flying.
     
  17. GCalo

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    #17 GCalo, Mar 28, 2007
    Well I did hear that those F4U's were a bore to fly!
     
  18. Rifledriver

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    #18 Rifledriver, Mar 28, 2007
    So boring he decided to step out of his and go for a swim later to be picked up by a sub with a big red sunburst painted on the Con.


    I am sure it was just the Vermouth that made him sleepy.
     
  19. GCalo

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    #19 GCalo, Mar 28, 2007
    So is that why they called him Pappy instead of Peppy?
     
  20. sparky p-51

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    #20 sparky p-51, Mar 28, 2007
    Pappy, Peppy? I thought they called him Puppy....or was it Poopy. Bet if anyone called Greg Boyington Poopy to his face, they would get a left cross.
     
  21. Rifledriver

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    #21 Rifledriver, Mar 28, 2007
    Or a bottle over the skull.
     
  22. sparky p-51

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    #22 sparky p-51, Mar 28, 2007
    Ah, empty bottle.
     
  23. snj5

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    #23 snj5, Mar 28, 2007
    It's actually no alcohol within 12 feet of the airplane...
     
  24. Rifledriver

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    #24 Rifledriver, Mar 28, 2007
    12 Ft from which part of the airplane?
     
  25. GCalo

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    #25 GCalo, Mar 28, 2007
    Why the tail of course.

    What else would be dragging after drinking?
     
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