There is a flying A-26 named "RUDE INVADER'" Flew out of Hanscom in Bedford
Mass about 15 years ago. I managed the reconstruction of runway 11/29. I used
to pull up behind him while he was taxi ing.Call him on the ground radio and
ask for a ride.?Never got a ride in it though. I did get a ride in the B24
"Dragon and his tail" Trip of a lifetime. Contact Collings Foundation Stowe Ma.
They can tell you where the A26 is now.
Dave M
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gammon <gtpjimgammon@yahoo.com>
To: Datsun roadster <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wed, 28 May 2008 2:22 pm
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] OT: vintage pics for aircraft buffs
My Dad was a navigator, co-pilot and bombadier on A-26 Douglas Invader. Was
remarked B-26 in Korea. Only twin engine bomber that flew combat in WW2, Korea
and Vietnam.
I just wish I had ever heard the plane run, very fast.
Jim
--- On Wed, 5/28/08, RWM <RWM@RWMann.com> wrote:
From: RWM <RWM@RWMann.com>
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] OT: vintage pics for aircraft buffs
To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 12:12 PM
There is an A-12 on the deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid -- which NYC hopes
to get back in a year or so after it is refitted.
Not sure where it originated or its planned route of flight, but late
Monday afternoon we had a B-17 at about 5,000 feet and climbing out over
Oyster Bay/Long Island Sound headed roughly north-west. No red fin, so
it wasn't the Collings airplane "909". Can't mistake the
sound of those
radials at high power.
stl@adnc.com wrote:
>Gordon,
>
>There is a Blackbird at the entrance of the San Diego Air and Space
>Museum in Balboa Park next to a Sea Dart, of all things. Quite a
>contrast of technologies. The Blackbird looks wicked indeed.
>
>It is saying something that P-38's still capture the imagination long
>after the advent of jets and moon walks.
>
>Steve Landuyt
>'69 2000
>
>
>
>Quoting Gordon Glasgow <gsglasgow@comcast.net>:
>
>
>
>>Very nice! I love the P-38s.
>>
>>BTW, anyone who makes it to Seattle should visit the Museum of Flight
>>(www.museumofflight.org). They've got a huge collection of planes
(here's
>>the list: http://www.museumofflight.org/Display.asp?Page=airspace).
>>
>>And it's the only place I know of where you can walk around a
Blackbird. For
>>a plane that doesn't even have weapons, it just looks wicked!
>>
>>Gordon Glasgow
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