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What a great Week end..... It seems the same bunch of Warbird guys were at Port Angles this weekend... My mission - Train a bunch of Civil Air Patrol cadets to marshal aircraft for the Port Angles flyin. I took Paul Anton's Ercoupe, Paul's Ercoupe was and BIG hit at the show.. and was allowed to stay parked in with the WAR birds. Every war bird pilot (ok not the guy with the jet) came buy and told me what a cool (or neat) aircraft I had. I gave Paul Anton all the credit for the workmanship. I took the credit for "selling" him on the Ercoupe in the first place. In the end I had a great time, hung out with the War Bird guys, taught a bunch of CAP cadets flight line safety and movement of aircraft. No one got hurt, although a number of classic cars got dusted from prop wash.... THANK YOU ...... Paul Anton, your aircraft was a HUGE hit.... Ron Burke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:02 PM Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] salute > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > > To all. > A week or so ago several warbird type flyers came to our field at > Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. There were two Navions from the > Fraser Blues precision flying team, a Chipmunk trainer, a Yak, a T-28 > Trojan, and a huge Avenger. Most were from the U.S. and some from > Canada. They visited Comox Air Force base to see the Spitfire project > that's being worked on there, and went to Port Alberni to see the two > huge Martin Mars water bombers on Sproat Lake. These are the worlds > largest flying boats. On the third day of their visit, they were all > hanging around Roger Yorks T-28 outside his hanger as I taxied out for a > short flight. As some of you may know, my coupe is done in W.W.II > camouflage in the style of a Spitfire. As I taxied by, all the heavy > iron pilots watched me pass. After flying around for a short time, I > thought I'd do a low and over to let them see a real warbird in action. > I called final and swooped in at screaming 120 M.P.H. . As I approached > I could see the pilots on the ground running around and forming into a > line. Mystified by what they were doing, I continued straight down the > runway at twenty feet off the blacktop. Just as I performed my death > defying pull up, I glanced over at the line of pilots in front of the > T-28. There were six white bare behinds gleaming in the sun. The glare > temporarily blinded me. Thank God for dark glasses. The coupe climbed > damatically up into the blue,[about 400 feet] and levelled off. I > turned down wind and set up for landing. I realised I had just been > given the highest honour they could bestow on me. It was truely a great > salute, and showed there best side. After landing I taxied in and they > all swarmed around the coupe and examined it with interest. They were a > great bunch. Now that I have been officially accepted into the warbird > clan, I walk with a slight swagger that was formerly called a limp. > > You too can see FLAK MAGNET on the web site that lists coupes > by "N" numbers [or in my case, "C" numbers] Look for C-FBMJ {Dark > glasses recommended} > > > Jon Page. > > FLAK MAGNET 415-C > > Qualicum Beach B.C. Canada. > ================================================================== > TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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