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Don't want to be a buzz kill on the F-86 - it's my sig pic - but I had the expereince of seeing an RCAF Sabre fly into Lake Ontario and crash in front of me at the Toronto airshow when I was 10 or 11. One minutes the pilot, an American who had joined the RCAF to fight, before 1941, was carving this barrel roll over us and the next as he pulled out he was just a few feet off in his calculations and the open nose flew right into the water ... and sank like a stone. Can still see it - a September day - the airshow was a discrete event back then from the Exhibition (CNE). Targets were moored offshore and P-51, RCN Sea Furies made diving runs. That was the way it was back then ... but it was a misty afternoon and maybe the show should have been cancelled.
IIRC the pilot's name was Green.
are you talking about the Bell 13Has to be the F86 but can I vote for the Dragonfly Helicopter
S/L W.R. GreeneDon't want to be a buzz kill on the F-86 - it's my sig pic - but I had the expereince of seeing an RCAF Sabre fly into Lake Ontario and crash in front of me at the Toronto airshow when I was 10 or 11. One minutes the pilot, an American who had joined the RCAF to fight, before 1941, was carving this barrel roll over us and the next as he pulled out he was just a few feet off in his calculations and the open nose flew right into the water ... and sank like a stone. Can still see it - a September day - the airshow was a discrete event back then from the Exhibition (CNE). Targets were moored offshore and P-51, RCN Sea Furies made diving runs. That was the way it was back then ... but it was a misty afternoon and maybe the show should have been cancelled.
IIRC the pilot's name was Green.
My first flight was in a Bell-47. Gettysburg, PA. It was owned by Agro-Rotors. A crop dusting outfit. I was about 12.Big M*A*S*H fan here, so just love the Bell 47
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Also have a massive soft spot for the DRUT. Definitely not good looking but respect the hell out of the men who flew them. I particularly like the all-black USMC birds:
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Glenn as a good pilot, but for the Korean War, I'd give the kudos to Gabby Gabreski, the two-war ace.what about mr.glen?
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And President of the Long Island Railroad.Glenn as a good pilot, but for the Korean War, I'd give the kudos to Gabby Gabreski, the two-war ace.
And President of the Long Island Railroad.
S51 but the Dragonfly was the UK nameare you talking about the Bell 13
"Where do we get such men?"