Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

[Airrace7]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

Gary has spent a lot of time racing cars but gave that up several ago. His cars still race but I am not sure who is behind the wheel. I don’t think Gary will be racing as he is 72 years old. I think he might have a pilots license as his companies have several airplanes in their fleet.

[Desertdawg]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

I just step outside and heard this glorious sound and knew what it was. It spent about 25-30 minutes flying up around the broken clouds. Perfect warm day for that.

Maybe in my next life I will have enough money to buy one :-)

[Desertdawg]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

It was a nice morning, figured after my morning bike ride I would head over to Stead to see what was going on at the hanger.

They had her pulled out and and a private jet pulled up, 6 or so people came out and walked to the Corsair.

I had my external stereo mic and was hoping to capture the sound of a start-up.

No luck, hung around for almost a hour and had to finally leave.

Once home it wasn't but 30 minutes when I heard her fly.

Lot more dropping into the approach pattern and such compared to the previous 2 higher flights.

[Desertdawg]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

One more

[AAFO_WSagar]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

I tried hard to ID any of the folks in the pictures... no joy.. anyone else??

[Desertdawg]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

I tried hard to ID any of the folks in the pictures... no joy.. anyone else??

Here's some notes, the guys with the black binder drove up and after a while he and another went into the jet.

Nothing happened after that, I'm assume he and the pilot where going over the preflight details.

I had to leave before they were done :-(

On the tarmac, everyone was just BS'ing waiting on them.

Over heard one talking about recently flying a P51, another was introduced as the company that owns her.

Even though I missed the start-up, just being around such a classic was precious.

When I heard her fly, its the sound of freedom, WWII style.

I just get all gitty thinking about what that sound projected to the enemy back in the day.

Have to wonder what "that sound" will be that terrifies our next fo??

[mkd1966]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

Kinda looks like Johnny Maloney in the o.d. t-shirt...

[GRNDP51]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

Kinda looks like Johnny Maloney in the o.d. t-shirt...

I think that is, also considering it's a Fighter Rebuilders tee.

The jet is under a different name than the Corsair, but it's still registered in Guerneville so maybe it's Heck's?

Is the guy in the cockpit not Dan Vance..?

[Race5]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

I think that is, also considering it's a Fighter Rebuilders tee.

The jet is under a different name than the Corsair, but it's still registered in Guerneville so maybe it's Heck's?

Is the guy in the cockpit not Dan Vance..?

Yeah, that's Dan.

[GRNDP51]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

Yeah, that's Dan.

Would make sense for Dan to ferry it since they both live in Wine Country.

Dawg do you know if it left?

[Desertdawg]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

Would make sense for Dan to ferry it since they both live in Wine Country.

Dawg do you know if it left?

It's still there.

[supercub]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

I tried hard to ID any of the folks in the pictures... no joy.. anyone else??

The Citation X is registered to Korbel.

[Donald McMullin]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

Kinda looks like Johnny Maloney in the o.d. t-shirt...

The man in the black hat was on the line to fly in the 2010 gold race that was canceled due to wind.

[Desertdawg]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

There up right now, super nice day, blue sky, and the only sound is a big radial.

They are definitely having fun, they have the sky to themselves.

Like when Rare Bear lived here, always up playing/testing.

[Desertdawg]

Re: Corsair Hiding In Old Stead Bear Cave 3-14-2020

Almost thought we were going to have a mayday.

A ways over the house she started popping and sputtering, then they turned west towards the airport and started a decent. After a while she appeared from behind Juniper Ridge getting into the Stead flight pattern with landing gear down.

Sounded good on approach.

Was that some sort of systems check/test?