Corvette/Cobras at Gillspie Field..

[crazyhorse]

One of our Cobra guys is Pro photog and set this up.(few months back)...another brought Steve McQueens Stearman that he now owns...

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Afterwards,we made a bansai run to the mountains for lunch...


Edit: OOPS...just realized I posted this before...dang CRS again...!!

 

[Twin_Turbo]

Do you have that pic without "proof" ?? it'd make a nice desktop background.

 

[mrvette]

fighter jocks have all the fun, next life I"m coming back for a turn at that....

:1st:

 

[JustinStrife]

fighter jocks have all the fun, next life I"m coming back for a turn at that....

:1st:

One of my biggest regrets is some of the decisions I made in HS and after, which destroyed my chances at being a fighter jock. It's one of those what-ifs I'll always have. :crutches:

 

[racervette69]

Nice pics,, love the Stearman


41 Stearman, Grandpa bought one at a surplus sale after the war, I think for $250. He and his brother learn to fly it on the family farm. The fun didn't last long, Grandpa flipped it when it got caught on a wire fence during a landing.. still have his log book.

 

[crazyhorse]

Do you have that pic without "proof" ?? it'd make a nice desktop background.

I just have a few 8x10 prints..no digitals...but here are copies I took of prints..and one shot I took myself in digital..(last pic)..

 

[mrvette]

fighter jocks have all the fun, next life I"m coming back for a turn at that....

:1st:

One of my biggest regrets is some of the decisions I made in HS and after, which destroyed my chances at being a fighter jock. It's one of those what-ifs I'll always have. :crutches:

I did some stupid shit too, but never would have flown anyway, as the backbone is messed up and so i"m 6'5" and too tall ....maybe a C130 something, but that's IT.....I could have been a Federal cop....oh well, no fancy retirement for me.....

 

[crazyhorse]

At my discharge from the Marine Corps in 1966,one of the shipping over options was going to Texas for helo pilot training for 16 weeks...had I done that and passed,they would have commissioned me as a Warrant Officer...I gave it some thought,then passed and my logic was why go back to Nam as a bigger target..?? Faulk that...!!
I barely got my ass out of there as it was...so I went to work for National Steel & Shipbuilding Co (34 years,retired 2002)

I wuz a grunt...

Bud took this..Tam Ky..RVN....1965....I was 24..SGT E5

 

[JustinStrife]

fighter jocks have all the fun, next life I"m coming back for a turn at that....

:1st:

One of my biggest regrets is some of the decisions I made in HS and after, which destroyed my chances at being a fighter jock. It's one of those what-ifs I'll always have. :crutches:

I did some stupid shit too, but never would have flown anyway, as the backbone is messed up and so i"m 6'5" and too tall ....maybe a C130 something, but that's IT.....I could have been a Federal cop....oh well, no fancy retirement for me.....

5'8" 145 lbs when I was 18 with 20-20 vision and great shape physically. Had a score of 82 on the Asvab test and I took it in 30 minutes when others were taking 2 hours. This after being one of the worst students in terms of attendance and work ethic of any kid in high school. :crap:

I know I'm not the only one who was stupid with what he did when he was at that age, but it pisses me off that I let myself do it. :noob: