Original Posted By: N321TX(at)wmconnect.com
SearsSubject: Re: Pietenpol-List: serious smoke advice (now Tomahawk) now Bob SearsOne last thing I forgot to mention about Bob Sears. His dad was a P-51 fighter pilot during WWll. Bob's dad had several kills and he was the only P-51pilot that actually shot down a German airplane, while the P-51 was still on theground. Story goes that the airbase was being attacked by Germans and Bob's dadjumped in his parked P-51, fired it up and while taxing out to the runway, saw a German airplane flying low straight at him. Mr. Sears fired his guns andgot the SOB that was trying to shoot him.Makes me feel like a woosie, having been a guy whose first airplane was a Tomahawk. (But then again I did fly right seat in a B-52 once.)________________________________________________________________________________