Re: 'BUCK SHOTS'
*** POLAR BEAR ***
Gerry Gabe's beautiful OD/NG razorback P-51A #25- 'Polar Bear' is captured at Reno '09 NCAR.
Veteran test/race pilot- Dave Morss has been her racing jockey since PB's Reno '05 Unlimited Class debut, w/a 2nd-place finish in that year's UNL Bronze @ 334.400-av/mph. The following year Team Polar Bear came back & won the Reno '06 Bronze final (@344.211). Race fans were stoked to see 'em racing again last Sept. at Reno, & Dave drove P-Bear up into Sunday's UNL Silver final f/a 7th-pl. finish @ 336.219-av/mph.
S/N 43-6006 earned her 'Polar Bear' moniker via her WW2 assignment to Ladd Field's USAAF Cold Weather Test Detachment located near Fairbanks, Alaska. She crashed 2/16/44 on a mountain by Summit, AK. & was recovered in 1977 by Waldon 'Moon' Spillers f/an 8-year restoration project. First post-restoration flight was made in 1985 & Gerry Gabe aquired the Allison-powered Mustang ten years later, and bases her today at Hollister, CA.
DBD
(Being an Alaskan, I'm particularly fond of P-Bear f/obvious reasons + one of her WW2 Cold WX Test unit pilots was my late friend- Randy Acord of Fairbanks,-pictured here w/his lovely wife- Marion, in front of their FB home in Oct. '87.)
*** POLAR BEAR ***
Gerry Gabe's beautiful OD/NG razorback P-51A #25- 'Polar Bear' is captured at Reno '09 NCAR.
Veteran test/race pilot- Dave Morss has been her racing jockey since PB's Reno '05 Unlimited Class debut, w/a 2nd-place finish in that year's UNL Bronze @ 334.400-av/mph. The following year Team Polar Bear came back & won the Reno '06 Bronze final (@344.211). Race fans were stoked to see 'em racing again last Sept. at Reno, & Dave drove P-Bear up into Sunday's UNL Silver final f/a 7th-pl. finish @ 336.219-av/mph.
S/N 43-6006 earned her 'Polar Bear' moniker via her WW2 assignment to Ladd Field's USAAF Cold Weather Test Detachment located near Fairbanks, Alaska. She crashed 2/16/44 on a mountain by Summit, AK. & was recovered in 1977 by Waldon 'Moon' Spillers f/an 8-year restoration project. First post-restoration flight was made in 1985 & Gerry Gabe aquired the Allison-powered Mustang ten years later, and bases her today at Hollister, CA.
DBD
(Being an Alaskan, I'm particularly fond of P-Bear f/obvious reasons + one of her WW2 Cold WX Test unit pilots was my late friend- Randy Acord of Fairbanks,-pictured here w/his lovely wife- Marion, in front of their FB home in Oct. '87.)
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