Comments on: News-Events

By: JohnS

JohnS — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:05:23 +0000

The lad was a passenger in a two-seat trainer. The pilot-in-command is retired Navy and a veteran of perhaps twenty Reno Air Races. Between the two of them, they figured out the T-6.

By: Judy Prescott

Judy Prescott — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:19:16 +0000

I have been told that among your other accomplishments you let a young 13 year old boy fly in your planes and actually handle the controls while in flight over the past two- three months. Isn’t that illegal!?

By: Matt Hoskinson

Matt Hoskinson — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:15:06 +0000

John,

You and Tim did some great work here. It all came together and the MiG looks awesome. The video was fun to watch. My kids and I loved it. This is the kind of thing that gets the boys thinking about what they want to be when they grow up.

By: Paul Sorensen

Paul Sorensen — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:53:18 +0000

Good to meet you at HFM Saturday! Thanks again for bringing up the B-25 Mitchell and also allowing Greg Anders to fly in the P-47.
The MIG-29 is a beautiful restoration! I keep going back to your video on this site of the first flight – just awesome!

By: Michael Mettman

Michael Mettman — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:50:45 +0000

Congratulations on the recent flight of your beautiful MiG 29UB!

I’m from a small town east of Toronto, Ontario and remember when the Ukrainian MiG’s came to Canada. I was fortunate to fly in a C-130 Hercules and remember so well the MiG slipping out from below us and pulling lead on our left wing. I hope you don’t mind my asking a couple of questions. I’m curious about the weight balance with the removal of the “gun” and the IRST System from the Windscreen area. Was it difficult to compensate for this? I remember when the first MiG 15 was brought into the United States, I got a chance to speak to the pilot/owner and he mentioned that his aircraft actually still had the armament installed and he had to contact the Federal Authorities, which removed them.

He says he actually had a machine shop make replica’s of the guns to actual weight and size so he could keep the C of G.

Again I hope you don’t mind the questions and really do compliment you on acquiring a beautiful aircraft.

Kindest Regards,

Michael Mettman
Bowmanville, Ontario

P.S. Your Tigercat is outstanding too!

By: Alex Wilkinson

Alex Wilkinson — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:12:01 +0000

I just love history. I’m 20 years old and looking into aviation maintenence at EvCC. I hope to build and old plane that brings some history back to life

By: John Veit

John Veit — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:04:20 +0000

I added some pics of your P-51 to may page of airplane pics and videos, and also put together a video of the 2 P-51′s + B-25 fly-by.

Here’s the link to the page of pics that has links to fly-by videos:

http://www.pointshooting.com/1aflyby.htm

Below are links to P-51 + B-25 video’s. I made two. One is 15 megs with good quality, and one with 22 megs of better quality. If you like feel free to download the videos and add them to your site. You can also edit them as you wish. Lastly, I have put together a HD video that is very big and needs to be cut down and edited. I may work on that later. I plan to upload the smaller video to U-tube.

http://www.pointshooting.com/kilo6a.wmv

http://www.pointshooting.com/kilo6b.wmv