Author Topic: opposite of crash pics (Read 3787 times)

steve pagano · « **on:** December 08, 2006, 09:25:38 PM »

OK people now instead of posting your favorite crash pics lets here and see you opinions on your favorite airplane (Finnish wise)
My vote goes to bob g's Sting ray. Don't have any pics so can some one help me out with this puppy?. happy posting!!!!!

Randy Powell · « **Reply #1 on:** December 08, 2006, 10:34:33 PM »

No question for me.

Bill Little · « **Reply #2 on:** December 08, 2006, 10:46:55 PM »

Hi Randy,

How long ago, and where, did you take that picture of Walt??

Bill <><

Ralph Wenzel (d) · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2006, 12:03:32 AM »

Probably at Sepulveda Basin. Stunt News featured a bunch of Walt's work a few years ago - - Fabulous "eye candy" !

minnesotamodeler · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2006, 07:09:37 AM »

Dig the flame job on his '57 Chevy too...

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2006, 09:27:33 AM »

This is much better.. I have never appreciated crash pictures, and generally ignore them.

steve pagano · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:06:39 AM »

here's another of my favorites the cockpit detail is the best i ever seen

Randy Powell · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:22:36 AM »

Bill,

I think Greg Howie took the picture. I have a very cool picture of Walt's T-Bird, but I can seem to find it.

Bill Little · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:34:22 AM »

Quote from: Randy on December 09, 2006, 11:22:36 AM

Bill,

I think Greg Howie took the picture. I have a very cool picture of Walt's T-Bird, but I can seem to find it.

Man, I WISH I could do what Walt can with a paint job!!!!

Bill <><

Shultzie · « **Reply #9 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:40:52 AM »

Quote from: steve pagano on December 08, 2006, 09:25:38 PM

OK people now instead of posting your favorite crash pics lets here and see you opinions on your favorite airplane (Finnish wise)
My vote goes to bob g's Sting ray. Don't have any pics so can some one help me out with this puppy?. happy posting!!!!!

Sting Ray....NO PROBLEM..
Bob Gialdini sent me two slides of his Sting Ray....way back from the 1964? nats.
Bob's beautiful models...were trend setters huh?
(exiled Shultzie in Gig haaaaba
I will scan and attach the ones I have (I just saw these two Ray slides yesterday in my shoe boxes of old gruntslides.

steve pagano · « **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:57:23 AM »

thanks shultzie !!

Shultzie · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2006, 07:20:07 PM »

Quote from: steve pagano on December 08, 2006, 09:25:38 PM

OK people now instead of posting your favorite crash pics lets here and see you opinions on your favorite airplane (Finnish wise)
My vote goes to bob g's Sting ray. Don't have any pics so can some one help me out with this puppy?. happy posting!!!!!

My scannerskills-suckuth' but here are the slides that The G man sent me.
(exiled Smotzie in Gaghaaaba'

Shultzie · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2006, 07:26:21 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on December 09, 2006, 11:40:52 AM

Sting Ray....NO PROBLEM..
Bob Gialdini sent me two slides of his Sting Ray....way back from the 1964? nats.
Bob's beautiful models...were trend setters huh?
(exiled Shultzie in Gig haaaaba
I will scan and attach the ones I have (I just saw these two Ray slides yesterday in my shoe boxes of old gruntslides.

Here is another angle from the rear..again...sorry my scanner cuts off wing tips...but U get the idea..Nice cooling vents..that I left off my model that I used at the 69 nats in Philly...

Shultzie · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2006, 07:33:25 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on December 09, 2006, 07:26:21 PM

Here is another angle from the rear..again...sorry my scanner cuts off wing tips...but U get the idea..Nice cooling vents..that I left off my model that I used at the 69 nats in Philly...

Here is the Sting Ray that I took to the 69 nats in Philly. Bill W. and Jim Kostecky in the background. The red hat belongs to Bob Gieske.
My model never looked so good...I can almost see a grin on the face of my stunters intake...as it is being so loveling held by Miss Model Aviation. What a beautiful young lady.

Shultzie · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2006, 07:42:21 PM »

That picture is reeeeeeeeeeeeeally fuzzy. Sorry, let me try a vertical?
Looks like I am going to have to take my slides down to my photo store and have them put onto a disc.

My skills with this Epson CX 7800 suckuth! Fuzzy and cuts off wing tips

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #15 on:** December 09, 2006, 07:49:55 PM »

That looks a whole lot bedda there Don'o !! Youre doing abetter job, or your gettin' bedda slides!!

Shultzie · « **Reply #16 on:** December 09, 2006, 09:55:13 PM »

Quote from: Richard Grogan on December 09, 2006, 07:49:55 PM

That looks a whole lot bedda there Don'o !! Youre doing abetter job, or your gettin' bedda slides!!

Thanks for the tips about scanners etc...but I still haven't downloaded that PIX'tricks stuff. Bye the way, I really enjoyed your website and E mail.

Bill Little · « **Reply #17 on:** December 09, 2006, 10:57:00 PM »

My vote goes to Steve Wooley's Argus. It was voted the "Most Beautiful Stunt Plane in the World" at the 1960 World Championships.

My version which was color matched to a piece of the original:

Windwalker · « **Reply #18 on:** December 10, 2006, 03:38:08 AM »

Quote from: minnesotamodeler on December 09, 2006, 07:09:37 AM

Dig the flame job on his '57 Chevy too...

That's not just any old '57 either.. It's a Nomad. Something like 7,000 built.. I've owned mine since 1968..

Nick aka
Windwalker

steve pagano · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2006, 09:45:16 AM »

OK guys how about this beauty. I love the rudder design

Shultzie · « **Reply #20 on:** December 10, 2006, 10:40:02 AM »

Quote from: steve pagano on December 10, 2006, 09:45:16 AM

OK guys how about this beauty. I love the rudder design

What a beautiful body line...What rudder?

Plus one would never have to worry about skinnin' off the the tip of the rudder on an inverted improto' landing!!

Yes that is a beautiful model.

steve pagano · « **Reply #21 on:** December 10, 2006, 10:42:16 AM »

now that i think about it,it kinda looks like a Mohawk for planes

Shultzie · « **Reply #22 on:** December 10, 2006, 11:19:06 AM »

Quote from: steve pagano on December 10, 2006, 10:42:16 AM

now that i think about it,it kinda looks like a Mohawk for planes

Take a look at the the Wooleyman's color for that stunt job. That color looks more like it belongs on a double dipped Mint ice cream cone, instead of a stunt model.

Perhaps the "COOL MINT COLOR" was chosen to take the judges minds off the 110 degree heat radiating off the hot asphalt run way tarmac.
Humm?
An interesting gamesmanship plan ploy....I noticed that Don Bamrick also used those minty-wooley-wuzzie colored paint for his beautiful models...
Hey....
Any thing from bold Panty-pink to grabber green..whatever punches your stuntgrunt buttons n' bows.
Speaking of Panty Pink! Waaaaaay back...in the early days, one of our most celebrated ICONs of stunt...built this BEAUTIFUL HOT DAY-GLOW HOT RED NEON stunter. One day I was driving down 1-5 toward Southcenter when I looked over to the Space Center Parking lot and saw this flash of NEON RED stunter goin' round n round..From that distance...one could not make out the airplane or the flyer--BUT THAT NEON FLASH OF RED...WAS CLEARLY VISIBLE.

However...with in less than a few months...his AWESOME HOT RED...was not LIGHT PROOF and had faded to a WUZZIE-PANTY PINK COLOR! However being the fun competitior that he is...he took all the razzzin n' jazzin...and continued his winning ways.
Talk about gettin' even.

steve pagano · « **Reply #23 on:** December 11, 2006, 11:29:33 AM »

here's some of the crew from flushing n.y.
first we have Jim borrelli with his 46 sized pattermaster
to his left we have hank womble with his ghost rider
and last but not least we have bob ''champione''lampione with his 60 sized united.

RC Storick · « **Reply #24 on:** December 11, 2006, 11:33:15 AM »

Hey who's the dork in the shorts? Oh thats my buddy! Almost didn't recognize him.

steve pagano · « **Reply #25 on:** December 15, 2006, 06:08:29 PM »

Any body know what plane this is? i love the canopy design

Steve Helmick · « **Reply #26 on:** December 17, 2006, 01:31:53 AM »

Here's a couple of my favorites. I recall seeing the "Ike" many years ago. I wonder if it's Classic Legal? Smoltzie?

Steve