Wingman quiz 4

[Big_Jim]

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I'll bet Big Jim remembers who was flying it too.
Did the pilot come back to Races the next year? after that excitement.

Yes, it was rookie Earl Ketchen. He came back and raced that same Mustang for Don Davis' "Tired Iron Racing Team" at Reno '82 and '83, as well as Moosejaw '84. Was killed a couple weeks after the Moosejaw race when he and a passenger stalled out at the top of a low-level loop and spun in. The Mustang was destroyed.

That same aircraft had previously been raced by Scott Smith at Reno '78 and Miami '79, and by Bill Whittington at Reno '80.

As I recall, the incident in the photo had to do with a broken prop linkage or something of the sort....and there were fuel trucks and aircraft being fueled all over the ramp. Very scary moment.

[Mark K]

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I'll bet Big Jim remembers who was flying it too.
Did the pilot come back to Races the next year? after that excitement.

you can read more about Earl & the Tired Iron race team here

http://www.pylon1.org/articles/publish/article_30.shtml

[wingman]

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Thanks for posting that, Mark. I've been meaning to mention Bucky's excellent article. Good pictures, too.

Neal

[Lon Moer]

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Been fun for me too. I'm spending all this time scanning -- might as well show some of them off and learn something about the history of our Sport...

All this nostalgia might motivate me to dig out my slide stash and start scanning.
This thread did get me to find my old airshow binder so I could post this picture.

[Big_Jim]

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All this nostalgia might motivate me to dig out my slide stash and start scanning.
This thread did get me to find my old airshow binder so I could post this picture.

I've been trying to track down one of their patches like that for 30 years.

[wingman]

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[Lon Moer]

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Where was this this Pony? What races was it present at?

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Okay.
This was on the tail of "GeGe II", raced by Scott Smith, at Miami '79.

[wingman]

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Was that the Pony's only race?

[Shawn Aro]

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from 1983 shawn

[Shawn Aro]

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i know iam exculded but i think Mark will give me an A Plus shawn

[Mark K]

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I give it an A++
Nice pic my friend (& I really enjoyed your call - we'll have to do it again real soon).