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09-20-2007, 07:35 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | RIP Elmer Ward I read on the AAFO Hangar Talk board that Elmer Ward has passed away. Most everyone who has been to Chino will remember him, and his most noticeable airplane, the P-51 "Man O War" http://www.aafo.com/hangartalk/showt...ght=elmer+ward Rest well, Elmer, and thanks for all the great memories.  
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09-20-2007, 07:48 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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09-20-2007, 07:56 PM
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| the old Sage   Join Date: May 2004 Location: Platonic Sphere
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| yes think I saw him at Chino as well a number of years ago in October..... sad loss
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09-21-2007, 12:27 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
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| Sorry to hear of the loss but the plane is a beauty!
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09-21-2007, 12:40 AM
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09-21-2007, 02:45 AM
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09-21-2007, 03:43 AM
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09-21-2007, 07:50 AM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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09-21-2007, 08:36 AM
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| Older Than Dirt  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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09-21-2007, 10:07 AM
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| I would like to announce another loss, but it isn't allowing me to start a new thread. We lost a Hurricane at the Shoreham Air Show with the pilot, Brian Brown from Doncaster. The aircraft had been 'scrambled' to intercept two Bf 109s in a mock fight. It then split from formation and dived into a hill, investigations are going on. In Britain we've lost 8 pilots in 17 years in vintage aircraft; the last incident was 2003 when two Royal Navy crew were killed when their Firefly crashed at Duxford. Pilot dies in Hurricane crash at show | the Daily Mail We've got a bigger article in the local newspaper...as I live in Doncaster. But I can't find it on the net.
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09-21-2007, 11:26 AM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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09-21-2007, 02:42 PM
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12-31-2007, 04:04 PM
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|  THat stinks a lot of times the planes capabilities arent as good as they were 60 yrs ago........Sad |
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01-06-2008, 01:24 PM
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