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Old 01-01-2015, 07:54 AM   #18
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Very familiar with Air Park -- that's where I learned to fly, in a no-radio J-3 Cub, N70525.

Lots of mechanical challenges at that airshow. I remember a guy with a Tora-Tora-Tora Zero (T6 in disguise) that wouldn't start -- amazing how far a frustrated pilot can throw a hat from a T6 cockpit -- and an F4U-7 whose wings wouldn't unfold; all he could do was taxi around.

There was at least one T-6 that lived in a hangar at Air Park; I saw it being worked on fairly often, but never saw it run. Remember all those De Havilland Otters rotting away on the ramp there? Five or six of them, as I remember.
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