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Topic: Mr. Seymour..........your opinion please. |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 10:18 am |
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From one steel player to another........
a touring air show will soon be in town.
They are offering flights in a P-51 like you recently got checked out in. They want $2,200 for a 1/2 hour ride and only $3,200 for a full one hour flite.
If a local steel player wanted very much to fly in this BIG IRON........would you say it was a fair price for a steel player to pay? |
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 2:03 pm
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Bobbe's "check-out"? As in "qualified-to-fly" a P51 Mustang? Wow! How cool is that!?!  IMO, the P51 Mustang is to fighter aircraft what an Emmons "push/Pull" is to PSG's: Not modern, but a highly revered icon, which has set the standard for those that followed. Hmmm, now that I've said that, Bobbe and P51's and Emmmons P/P's; It sorta makes sense. 
I certainly can't speak for Bobbe, but for what it's worth, $2K to $3K seems expensive. On the other hand, where else are you going to be able to take a ride-of-your-life in probably the best all around aircraft of WWII.
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn |
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Wally Taylor
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Hardin, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 2:32 pm
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Yep, the price is steep, but if I had the extra cash on hand, I'd jump at the chance to climb into a P-51 in a heartbeat! Nothing gets the old juices flowing like the deep drone of that Merlin. I have always thought the P-51 was the best prop fighter ever produced and I still get a thrill watching them at air shows. I was lucky enough to get to see my hero, Chuck Yeager, who was 71 then, take off in his Glorious Gliness III and perform at the Winston-Salem airport a few years ago.
I did not know Bobbe had been checked out in one though. That has to be the kick of a lifetime for a pilot!! Wonder how much right rudder has to be applied to keep that thing on the runway?? 
Wally
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Joe Miraglia
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Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 2:46 pm
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 2:51 pm
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| Glenn Suchan wrote: |
Bobbe's "check-out"? As in "qualified-to-fly" a P51 Mustang? Wow! How cool is that!?! IMO, the P51 Mustang is to fighter aircraft what an Emmons "push/Pull" is to PSG's: Not modern, but a highly revered icon, which has set the standard for those that followed. Hmmm, now that I've said that, Bobbe and P51's and Emmmons P/P's; It sorta makes sense.
I certainly can't speak for Bobbe, but for what it's worth, $2K to $3K seems expensive. On the other hand, where else are you going to be able to take a ride-of-your-life in probably the best all around aircraft of WWII.
Glenn It was the Navy Corair that set the standard Like the pull Sho Bud,here I go again  I was in the Navy.
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 2:55 pm
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Sorry the way I posted it I don't know what I'm doing  Joe |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 5:40 pm
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That's about what I had to pay an hour a while back in Florida to get a letter of authorization for the NA P-51-K. However with the price of fuel now, this price you have posted may be a great value.
Now on to the Mig family of fighters, New Mexico, here I come! JP5 is a little less expensive, but I'll be burning a lot more of it.
Well, it's only money and I'll be be coming by this way once, no kids, no wife, gimme them ole fighters! (And a fuel bill)
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 5:46 pm
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Joe M., I remember in the 40's when a B-24 bomber crashed in your neighborhood, were you there then? If not, ask uncle Doug. The flight crew was flying over one of the crew members house when it stalled in a left turn and exploded and burned. Near Panama NY.
Whew, a lasting memory to have happen so close to you when I was a little kid.
Bobbe |
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Michael Strauss
From:
Delray Beach,Florida
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Posted 11 Jun 2008 6:15 pm
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Hi Ray,
What Bobbe said.
If I had $4,147.50 I would do the Zero G flight
http://www.gozerog.com/index.htm in a heartbeat. It lasts 3-4 hrs, maybe someday. I think it's great you could have such an opportunity.
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 7:48 am
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| Bobbe- I don't remember it. But you could, you're much older than me . Joe |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 8:26 am Hey Bobbe!
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Did you give up on the Corsair?
I was really proud of you and was waiting anxiously to learn of your first successful CARRIER landing!
What a beautiful pix that is up above there, of that blue F4U in flight. I was born too late and don't own a music store or have a rich wife or whatever is required to get to endulge in such wonderful life experiences.
GO FOR IT Bobbe! |
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Steve Norman
From:
Seattle Washington, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 8:46 am
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for those on my budget,,I do this:
https://fighterace.ketsujin.com/default2.asp
Every memorial day a b-17 comes into Boeing field up here in seattle,,I think for about 500$ you can ride in it,,cant pilot it though.
There is a flying me262 up here as well!
http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 10:01 am
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Yes Ray, I'm looking forward to my first carrier landing in a Corsair, at night, in a storm with heavy seas. I want to do it with no sleep, drunk, nude with a tail hook that won't release!
Then I'll brag about how good I am! 
Sort of like landing my clipped/short wing Piper in my side yard with 40 knot cross winds, over a 50 ft. obstacle in the hot summer in a hard rain storm. The yard is 200 feet long, 36 feet wide.
I may put a new window in the bedroom where I tried it last year,
Bobbe |
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 11:38 am
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Bobbe, like your aeroplane tales, you crack me up! 
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn |
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Steve Hellerich
From:
Canon City, CO USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 3:29 am
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| I heard Bobbe was in Seattle and tried to thread the space needle |
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Dave Grothusen
From:
Scott City, Ks
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 3:57 am
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| I have a friend that has a picture on his wall of both he and his son side by side making a low pass at Kissimmi, both in P51s. This has been over ten years ago and it was $1500/hr. What a rush. |
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Bob Hickish
From:
Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 4:57 am
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Yes Ray, I'm looking forward to my first carrier landing in a Corsair, at night, in a storm with heavy seas. I want to do it with no sleep, drunk, nude with a tail hook that won't release!
Then I'll brag about how good I am!
Bobbe |
" Then I'll brag about how good I am! "
I think I'v flown with you !!! 
Bobbe
Have you tried wearing the orange scarf & leather jacket with the words on the back " Why Yes I fly jets ! why do you ask ? 
I'll take a double shot of Jp5 |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 3:29 pm
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| I'd rather put the money into a new PSG. Ten years later I'd still have the guitar, but the guy who chose the flight would only have memories... |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 4:05 pm
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Check out this You Tube clip. Someone told me this actually was Bobbe disguised as Foster Brooks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IGUuVQ_7ZY
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 6:02 pm
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Rather have a new steel than memories?
Without memories, you'd have nothing to look back on.
But then, I have some very expensive memories, (remember Jeannie?) |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 14 Jun 2008 4:26 am
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| Bobbe, is there a B-2 bomber in your future? |
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Wally Taylor
From:
Hardin, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2008 4:36 am
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Bobbe,
Jeannie? Yeah, I remember her. 
Didn't she grant you 3 wishes or...... something like that?
If it only took you 1 hour to checkride and certify in a complex aircraft like the P-51, you must be a darn good pilot!!
Wally |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 14 Jun 2008 12:27 pm
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| BobbeSeymour wrote: |
| Rather have a new steel than memories?... |
Bobbe: As a salesman aren't you supposed to be encouraging us to buy new instruments ? |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 14 Jun 2008 12:43 pm Now let's seeeeee.................
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What's this about Jeannie?
Is she the cute little blond that used adorn the steel guitar showroom?
Where is she now?
Or, was she the other one?
There's been soooooooo many and so little time...... |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 14 Jun 2008 4:48 pm Re: Now let's seeeeee.................
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| Ray Montee wrote: |
| ...There's been soooooooo many and so little time...... |
I was once stood up on a date in Antwerp, which was a big deal because I'd travelled all the way from Birmingham for the occasion.  Returning dejectedly back to the hotel I was met by the jolly concierge, who happily pointed out in his broken English, "Mijnheer, the world is full of beautiful women. They're like buses... there'll be another one along in a few minutes."
Those words will live for ever in my memory. There's a great philisophy there... |
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