• Duality

  

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  Sat, December 10, 2005 - 5:48 PM

  I met Pappy Boyington before he died......that was cool

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• • Thomas

    

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    Tue, April 18, 2006 - 8:52 PM

    Where did you meet Major Boyington? My son, who was only eight or ten at the time, and I were very thrilled to meet "Pappy" at an air show in Chino, Calif. in the mid 1980s, not too long before his death in 1988. Insteresting side note; while Pappy was inside the hanger signing autographs, the Japanese pilot who claims to have shot Pappy down had his own booth in a tent outside the hanger. I don't know if they had lunch together, or not.
    
    Thomas

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  • • Michael

      

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      Wed, April 19, 2006 - 12:20 PM

      Didn't "Pappy" write a auto biog? I remembered reading it during the run of his TV show. I believe he said he had a problem with the bottle and sobered up? Is that true? The TV show protrayed him as a drunk by today's standards, hell they all were.

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    • Duality

      

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      Sun, April 30, 2006 - 8:01 AM

      I met him at Oshkosh .....dont remember the year......it was cool.....he was siting next to the Japanese pilot who shot him down......

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• Thomas

  

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  Tue, April 18, 2006 - 9:04 PM

  I have read some biographies, Baron von Richtofen, James McCudden, Greg Boyington, Bob Hoover, Chuck Yeager. I build radio-contgrolled flying models. I built one of Major McCudden's SE-5.
  
  How is political stability in your neighborhood these days? It's not so good in France lately.
  
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