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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX

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Homer J said:
Speaking of which....
110 Years ago today, this happened.
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.... And 'Da Bee has been Gold Winged for exactly 1/2 of that 110-year span of aviation development & history... priceless!:)
Winged 3 July, 1958
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With all due respect to Homer J's fine work here, on December 18, 1942 my father Lt. James E. Evans, as an IP out of Bunker Hill NAS, and his student had to leave a N2S Stearman which would not recover from an inverted spin due to a structural failure, he landed in a corn field. Later he cut off the NAVY section of fabric from remains of the fuselage. He later gave it to me.

71 years ago today.
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VMO4 said:
With all due respect to Homer J's fine work here, on December 18, 1942 my father Lt. James E. Evans, as an IP out of Bunker Hill NAS, and his student had to leave a N2S Stearman which would not recover from an inverted spin due to a structural failure, he landed in a corn field. Later he cut off the NAVY section of fabric from remains of the fuselage. He later gave it to me.

71 years ago today.
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You really should have that thing framed to preserve it. What an awesome story, thanks for sharing.
 
VMO4 said:
With all due respect to Homer J's fine work here, on December 18, 1942 my father Lt. James E. Evans, as an IP out of Bunker Hill NAS, and his student had to leave a N2S Stearman which would not recover from an inverted spin due to a structural failure, he landed in a corn field. Later he cut off the NAVY section of fabric from remains of the fuselage. He later gave it to me.

71 years ago today.
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Interesting segue,
Saw your name which, coincidentally, was similar to a license plate I saw today on an SUV "VMO-2" which piqued my interest.

30 seconds of google-fu later:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMO-2
What did you do with VMO-4? Seems like an interesting precursor to current UAV ops...
Pickle
 
Pickle,

I was enlisted wrench turner/aircrew with VMO 4 (OV-10D) and HMLA 773 (AH-1T) at NAS Marietta, and also spent some time with HML 767 (UH-1N) at NAS Belle Chase in the early eighties. Good times, our motto was "bend to fit, paint to match"

The patch in the pic is from my farher's Med cruise on the FDR , CV-42 in 52/53.
 
CommodoreMid said:
Speaking of old BUNOs
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Reminded me of a flight recently.....was passing my BuNo to the boom operator in the Maiden, and they misheard 164268 (or something like that) for another number. They said "confirm 168264" or something, and I lol'd a big aviation nerd laugh to myself......168......what is this, 2090? :)
 
MIDNJAC said:
Reminded me of a flight recently.....was passing my BuNo to the boom operator in the Maiden, and they misheard 164268 (or something like that) for another number. They said "confirm 168264" or something, and I lol'd a big aviation nerd laugh to myself......168......what is this, 2090? :)
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I guess you just had to have been there.;)
 
MIDNJAC said:
Reminded me of a flight recently.....was passing my BuNo to the boom operator in the Maiden, and they misheard 164268 (or something like that) for another number. They said "confirm 168264" or something, and I lol'd a big aviation nerd laugh to myself......168......what is this, 2090? :)
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There are 168 bunos. I flew plenty of 167 helos a few years ago. I can't remember the bunos of the E-2D and P-8s, but I'm sure they're at least 168.
 
Pags said:
There are 168 bunos. I flew plenty of 167 helos a few years ago. I can't remember the bunos of the E-2D and P-8s, but I'm sure they're at least 168.
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Yep...they do exist...

MIDNJAC said:
Reminded me of a flight recently.....was passing my BuNo to the boom operator in the Maiden, and they misheard 164268 (or something like that) for another number. They said "confirm 168264" or something, and I lol'd a big aviation nerd laugh to myself......168......what is this, 2090? :)
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Damn dude, you are flying a dinosaur.
 
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