We could really use the help flying kids this year. One of the guys lost his medical, another had a nervous breakdown. We usually get about 100 young eagles. I think there's a car show this year and the food is always good.

ttt

100 Kids climbing all over my airplane would give me a nervous breakdown.

Any fireworks??

SixTwoLeemer wrote:Any fireworks??

Good one

Went to the fly-in at St. Anthony. It was great to see the T-6 and Stearman fly-by. Nothing beats the sound of the radial engines. It was a fun time. Kinda of the small town feel that you don't get too often.

DEGJR

DEGJR wrote:Went to the fly-in at St. Anthony. It was great to see the T-6 and Stearman fly-by. Nothing beats the sound of the radial engines. It was a fun time. Kinda of the small town feel that you don't get too often.

DEGJR

The T-6 and the Stearman were fun but the Birddog was fun to see too, mostly because of this story:

On 29 April 1975, the day before the fall of Saigon, South Vietnamese Air Force Major Buang-Ly loaded his wife and five children into a two-seat Cessna O-1 Bird Dog and took off from Con Son Island. After evading enemy ground fire Major Buang-Ly headed out to sea and spotted the aircraft carrier USS Midway. With only an hour of fuel remaining, he dropped a note[4] asking that the "runway" [sic] be cleared so that he could land.[5] Knowing there was no room for this to happen, Rear Admiral Lawrence Chambers ordered that $10 million (US currency) worth of UH-1 Huey helicopters be pushed overboard into the South China Sea. The Bird Dog that Major Buang-Ly landed is now on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.[6]

American television personality/actor Ed McMahon was a Marine Corps aviator and piloted one in Korea, flying more than 80 combat missions during 1953.[citation needed]

The Dash-One (official Operating Manual) for the O-1E issued to USAF pilots in 1970 had the following statement: "rear seat rated for one pilot/observer or two Vietnamese."