HOWARD PARDUE!! I am in LOVE with him and his Bearcat!
Yup. Interesting story... One night, my student and I diverted to the airport in Breckenridge, TX where he keeps all his planes because we encountered some unforecast deteriorating weather conditions and severe thunderstorms that were blocking our route in a VFR only airplane powered by a rubberband and held together with Lego blocks, i.e. a Diamond Katana aka the plastic wagon.
Anway, we wound up staying in the little building the county keeps open over there. The next morning it was IFR so we walked over to this warbird restoration shop and over to his "museum" as well. The restoration shop was pretty cool as we saw a P-38 that they were restoring for Red Bull, an F-4 Corsair airframe, a couple of p-51s, and Pardue's Staggerwing. Was pretty cool. I was too tired and cranky though from only getting three hours of sleep while still in my work uniform on metal chairs that I pushed together to take any pictures. Kinda wish I had though. Oh well.
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:19 pm
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