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To: Lx
"One less flying B17. This wasn’t the Confederate Air Forces one is it?"

I think they go by Commemorative Air Force nowdays, Confederate was too non-PC for some, but point taken. I've known a few of their squadron mates around here in DFW. My ex-roomie had a daddy who flew the Hump in C-47s back in WW2 and kept an AT-6 "Texan" in the air with the local wing. Until an unfortunate accident turned him and his aircraft into a pile of debris.

27 posted on 06/13/2011 6:57:19 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
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To: West Texas Chuck

Wow, I have to comment on my own comment.

I haven’t thought about Captain Hank in a while. He flew heavies with AA between Laguardia and Germany for many many years. After he retired he bought that T-6, took me up a time or two. Guy was a John Wayne clone, good man, I miss that ol’ sumbish.

RIP “Red One.”


29 posted on 06/13/2011 7:06:59 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
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To: West Texas Chuck

I used to be a member of the Confederate Air Force. I stopped when they went politically correct.


43 posted on 06/13/2011 8:18:40 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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