Recent content by twobit01

I started liking warbirds at about age 13 after seeing Baa Baa Black Sheep on TV. Those Corsairs just made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. me and Dad watched it every week. I especially liked the episode with the P-38's in it. I also met and spoke with Greg Boyington for a long time at...

I understood that Lockheed had ann the engineering done to put Merlin engines in the '38 when the one's they sent to England didn't perform as well as the Brits had hoped. Can you imagine a '38 spinning twin Merlins?!?!

As I recall, he was a flight test pilot with Grumman, and he wrote a book about all his flight test duties. It was really interesting and although I can't recall exactly how much he wrote about the Hellcat, it had to be a good amount - that would be some good inside info from someone intimately...

Was stationed at Bitburg and studied their squadron history...don't recall 104's mentioned in it. 100's, 101's, and 105's, but not 104's. I DO vividly recall the German 104's flying crazy low thru the hills as our F-15's circled overhead looking for them. The German pilots had some stones, no doubt.