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Title: Not CL, Samuel Gets A Ride In A 1929 Waco Biplane.
Post by: mike londke on July 28, 2016, 06:36:58 PM
While on vacation in the Smokies we took a ride.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeBOCrdD5m4
Title: Re: Not CL, Samuel Gets A Ride In A 1929 Waco Biplane.
Post by: RC Storick on July 28, 2016, 06:52:46 PM
Super cool!
Title: Re: Not CL, Samuel Gets A Ride In A 1929 Waco Biplane.
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on July 28, 2016, 07:10:49 PM
Open cockpit bipes are great fun!  This picture shows me taxiing out.  1938 Focke-Wulf 44J "Steiglitz".  This plane would be fully acrobatic if it had more than 150 HP.  But I still did a lot of acro in it, and logged about 200 hrs.

Floyd.
Title: Re: Not CL, Samuel Gets A Ride In A 1929 Waco Biplane.
Post by: George Albo on July 28, 2016, 09:24:08 PM
Way cool. Your boy will never forget this moment ever!
Title: Re: Not CL, Samuel Gets A Ride In A 1929 Waco Biplane.
Post by: john e. holliday on July 29, 2016, 10:28:05 AM
That is great.  Just think in time he could be the pilot.
Title: Re: Not CL, Samuel Gets A Ride In A 1929 Waco Biplane.
Post by: Frank Imbriaco on July 29, 2016, 01:48:41 PM
A great video and your(and your son's) memories will last a lifetime.  The reason for my curiosity about the experience ?

In 1929, a 19 year old Navy reserve student  pilot from Elizabeth, NJ took flying lessons out of what is now Newark, NJ International in a 1928 Waco 10.
Unfortunately, he and his instructor( a WW 1 flying ace ) were killed when the aircraft lost power and crashed into swamp land near the airstrip. Theory is that the fuel was contaminated or that the war surplus Lycoming engine was to blame.

That  student was my uncle, Joe, and until recently , the family never knew much about the circumstances other than what was passed  verbally down through the decades.

My cousin, Robert, did a tremendous amount of research around 2009 about our late uncle, the aircraft, history of the Waco Aircraft Co. ,etc. and the circumstances. It is all on the web.