Recent content by Col. Douglas P. King

Very interesting stuff. Thank you for sharing.

Sam Sheppard seems a very good choice to play the role of Claire Lee Chennault.. But IMHO, and only for the look, maybe Clint Eastwood would be a better choice? Eastwood is tall, slim, and his face look like sculptured with an axe, exactly as Chennault was. What do you think?

:) Hello there! I'm a big fan of the P-38, and I've opened the P-38 Fanclub here. Just check the "Social groups"... :) Cheers

Now it is.. ;)

Thank you all, M8s. I noticed I'm not yet allowed to start new threads, so I will have to announce here that I've opened a new social group for the P-38 Lightning fans. Anyone interested please join. Thank you

Thank you! :D I like that's era civil flying boats (Sikorsky, Boeing)... And the biplanes...

Thank you Eric!! BTW, I discovered I was already a member of this forum, from back in 2005. Ah, the memory... Hope it's not the beginning of that Alzhaimer issue.. :P Cheers PS: I deleted all of my previous and old posts with the old username. Want this to be a new start.

Vrnil sem se :D

Oi Condora! Eu falo Portugués, sendo que moro no Brasil. Sou meio Americano e meio italiano, casado com Brasileira. :)

Pozdrav Momci!! Rodijen sam u Rijeku, Hrvatska. Otac Amerikanac, Majka Talijanka. (Ala sam internacijonalac!) Drago mi je da imacu prilike da ponovo pocnem da "pricam/govorim" "po naski" :)

Salve a tutti! Mi faccio avanti pure io, anche se sono italiano soltanto al 50%... Italiano per parte di madre (Mamma Bolognese, sono stato tirato su a lasagne e tortellini). Papá era Texano, pilota dell' USAAC, poi USAAF ed infine USAF. Ho passato l' infanzia fra San Francisco, Oakland...

Thank you all for the warm welcome! It's my pleasure to be there. I have a lot of books about aviation, mainly military of the above mentioned time frames. To answer to Evangilder: yes, for "Golden Age" I mean the 1919-1939 time frame. Lot of wonderful biplanes, and a great time for civil...

Hi there! :oops: I'm Douglas, I'm half American, half Italian, born by chance in former Yugoslavia (now Croatia) and actually living in Brazil. I'm 47 years old, retired military. I like Aviation stuff, Navy stuff, used to build scale models, and now deeply involved in flight sims...