Unknown Pilot?

[Paul Taylor]

Found this photo on a old Windy video. Anyone know who it is?

[Paul Taylor]

Found this photo on a old Windy video. Anyone know who it is?

[jose modesto]

Robert (Bob )Hunt

[peabody]

A Nobler with wing gear....MAJOR demerit in Classic of late.....

[Terrence Durrill]

Robert (Bob )Hunt

            I see that Bob was flying the best Aerobatic design of the day (Nobler)........anyway, they say Bob hated FOX ENGINES (I won't ask why), so I'm pretty sure he wasn't running the classic Fox .35/Nobler combination.  Does anyone know what he was using in this particular plane for power......just wondering.          

[Terrence Durrill]

Found this photo on a old Windy video. Anyone know who it is?

                 I see that Bob was flying the best Aerobatic design of the day (Nobler)........anyway, they say Bob hated FOX ENGINES (I won't ask why), so I'm pretty sure he wasn't running the classic Fox .35/Nobler combination.  Does anyone know what he was using in this particular plane for power......just wondering.           

[jose modesto]

Fox 35. The distance for foxes came much later

[john e. holliday]

I think Bob writes about this plane and his experiences with it in one of his posts.  Then he may see this and retell the story.   Now look at all that hair.

[john e. holliday]

See duplicate thread on this.

[Tom Niebuhr]

Seems these two posts should be merged!

Yes that's little Bob, and he was with Gene Shaefer at that contest..

Peabody: It was very common to put wing gears in Noblers. I have pictures of 1960 Nats winner,  Artie Meyers at the 1961 Willow Grove Nats holding his stock Nobler with a wing gear.  ( Artie flew his "New Yorker" in 1960) Any one marked down for having a wing gear should strongly protest to the Contest Director.  Unlike some people's belief,  the past cannot be revised.

[Howard Rush]

It does look like Robert Hunt (a local guy here in Seattle), but I don't think it is.

[Bob Hunt]

That photo was actually taken at the 1966 New Bedford meet. Yup, that's me with my "Simonized" Nobler. Bill Simons had a bunch of mods that made that ship easier to build and lighter as well. That one did indeed have a Fox 35 in the nose. That was way before I found out things that made it impossible for me to fly Fox engines...

I didn't go to that meet with Gene, but we did hook up and practice together. Gene won Open that day and I won Senior. Gene even bought me a steak dinner after the meet to celebrate! The full story of that plane and that meet are in the Caprice book text that is posted in the Library section.

Great memories...

Bob Hunt