Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

[Victor Archer]

Caught this at a little air show two weeks ago.
Clay Lacy flying a Tigercat!

http://www.pbase.com/marauder61/air_shows_2008_cable

[RCoulter]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

Very nice Victor

[MRussell]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

Nice Victor.

Question for the geeks: how many Tigercats are thought to be in existance, and how many are flying???

[t-dub]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

Both questions can be answered on one hand.........

[hattend]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

Nice Victor.

Question for the geeks: how many Tigercats are thought to be in existance, and how many are flying???

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/f7fregistry/f7fregistry.html

Don

[Dave65882]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

I am ignorant of Tigercats, but from the looks of the smoke coming out of that one it might be grounded sooner than later.

Too bad, they are such pretty planes. If everyone had a tigercat and bearcat to play with, nothing would ever get done in the worlkd but we would have fun none the less.

[flyingsailor]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

I am ignorant of Tigercats, but from the looks of the smoke coming out of that one it might be grounded sooner than later.

Dave
I can't say for sure, but many airshow aircraft have a mechanism that dumps oil onto the exhaust for the smoke trail.

Chris

PS I LOVE tigercats

[Victor Archer]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

Dave
I can't say for sure, but many airshow aircraft have a mechanism that dumps oil onto the exhaust for the smoke trail.

Yes, it's a smoke system. The big cat was quite clean.

Calvin J. Butler/Butler Farm Air Service, Redmond, OR, 1963-1966.
- Registered as N7235C.
- Flown as tanker #F17 (later #17).
TBM Inc, Tulare, CA, 1969-1979.
- Flew as tanker #E64.
Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Chino, CA, 1982-1996.
- Flew as Marined/VMFN-515.
- Loaned to Combat Air Museum, Topeka, KS, 1992-1996.
The Fighter Collection, Duxford, UK, June 1996-2002.
- Registered as G-RUMT.
- Rebuilt by Steve Hinton, Fighter Rebuilders, Chino, CA.

[Lockheed Bob]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

There ain't much he can't fly. He is one of the all time greats. My hats off to him,

[Victor Archer]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

There ain't much he can't fly. He is one of the all time greats. My hats off to him,

He made two real sweet passes, after each he would pull up damn near verticle, yeah... he was playing pretty hard

I got to hear him speak at the Living Legends of Aviation Banquet last week, good stuff!!!

There was a very interesting group of people there!!!
This year's gala include Bob Hoover, Cliff Robertson, John Travolta, Buzz Aldrin, Kermit Weeks, Bob Lutz, Maj. Gen. Bill Anders, Clay Lacy, Joe Clark, Julie Clark, James Raisbeck, Dr. Forrest Bird, George McGovern, Sean Tucker, Alan Klapmeier and a few more to say the least.

Here's a link to some video from last year... very cool.

http://www.airportjournals.com/legends/index.cfm

[luscombe]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

Great pics Victor your the man or is that the Alien lol of the aircraft capture shot way to go keep up the good work and the pics comming

[Kevin L]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

Speaking of Tigercats......Check out this months issue of Flight Journal.

[tex-fan]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

# still airworthy, www.warbirdalley.com says 6.

[tex-fan]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

I gotta ask. I saw in Mr. Lacy's bio he has 50,000 flight hours! Does anybody know how many different aircraft he has flown?

[Dave65882]

Re: Clay Lacy - Tigercat!

Good to know as I was a little worried there for a second. I have been to Reno for so many years and not given 2 rat's #$% about the shows so I was in the dark on that one