[Cal]

How did ya do against the Cessna in the background?  (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Real poor; we got red flaged every time a plane got on the taxi-way!

Here's some of the more difficult competition:

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This post has been edited by Cal: Nov 17 2005, 08:10 AM

[Pilot]

Psh, did you ever hear the story of Bob Hoover's "retirement"?  The FAA screwed him...

Yeah they took away his pilots license, and he lost ownership in the Shrike Commander in lawyers fees. Then he moved to Austraila to fly for a while longer before he fully retired. I saw his P-51 at an airshow once, but it also belongs to someone else now.

I have been going to the Reno air races for years and have seen Bob Hoovers flying many times. He also flew the P-51 pace plane. They now use a jet because the race planes are going to fast now. I remember at the races one year they were making a big deal how the FAA screwed him.
I was at an auto x at Santa Rosa california aitport and we had to stop running to let a P-51 taxi on by. What a sweet airplane.

P-51? Here's one that stopped by work. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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