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Post by rcdude07 on Aug 24, 2015 9:15:43 GMT -4
I Flew my GWS C-47 at Warbirds Over Dixie on 8-15-15. This happened to be National Model Aviation Day and the 70'th Anniversary of VJ Day. After one flight I was stopped and a fellow pilot was asking the usual questions. The man beside him, his dad, proceeds to tell me the uniqueness of jumping out of a C-47 and due to the location of the horizontal stab the deaths that happened. He proceeded to tell me he was a paratrooper and jumped out of them and C-119's during Korea. He pointed out some non-scale things on the plane, which I understood and explained stand off scale and choices to make a model fly better. As he told me more stories, he would stop, get emotional, and tell me he was trying to remember more. He thanked me for flying it today, although it's painted in WWII invasion colors. I told him it was I who was thankful and that I fly r/c warbirds in their memory and honor.
I'm 30 years old and have been involved in this hobby literally all my life, thanks to my dad. I had never seen or experienced this type of conversation in the R/C world before. This connection is why I choose to fly warbirds.
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Post by gugie on Aug 25, 2015 14:28:31 GMT -4
What a GREAT story! When I was into RC Boats I was working on my PT Boat and was at a PT Boat reunion here in Portland. (This was a few years back) These guys loved to talk about their many adventures. I could have listened to their stories for days. Thanks for sharing!
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