Our good friend Willie (Warbird 5) sent Bucky and me a message asking for a thread on John Crocker, who he crewed for for several years, and a thread on Bob Love. Many here know Willie these days as crew on Tom Camp's Race #2 Wildcat.
Here's a start. 1976 was my first Reno. A friend of mine dragged me up there (I think mostly because I was the only photog he knew with a telephoto lens so I could take pictures for him to use in paintings, but that's another story). There was this lovely airplane there -- listed as a P-51D but looking like no Mustang I'd ever heard of. It was beautiful! Didn't sound like any Mustang I'd ever heard, either.
Not only that, but that airplane finished in first place in the Gold, too! It made quite an impression on a young photographer...
Here's a start. 1976 was my first Reno. A friend of mine dragged me up there (I think mostly because I was the only photog he knew with a telephoto lens so I could take pictures for him to use in paintings, but that's another story). There was this lovely airplane there -- listed as a P-51D but looking like no Mustang I'd ever heard of. It was beautiful! Didn't sound like any Mustang I'd ever heard, either.
Not only that, but that airplane finished in first place in the Gold, too! It made quite an impression on a young photographer...
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