ORIGINAL: Stickbuilder
Note to Ken.....Brylcreme (a little dab'll do ya)
Bill, AMA 4720
WACO Brotherhood #1
If I had stuck my head above the windscreen, I could have gotten a little AeroShell 100 on it. Probably would have held better, too.
John was off shooting the DH-4, I think, or he could have gone in another Stearman on the fly-out. The airspace around CCA is odd, you have to stay under 1600 MSL due to Class B airspace above CCA.(field elevation at CCA is 460 MSL) If you fly east, there is a single corridor you can fly through under the Class B; this is what we did going east to Belleville, and it takes you directly across downtown St. Louis. We flew straight over the Anheuser Busch Brewery, and just south of the Gateway Arch as we crossed the Mississippi River. There were two other Stearmans on our wing, and several others in trail or ahead of us. In all, over thirty aircraft participated in the fly-out, from an Aeronca L-14 to an RV-8 homebuilt, to a Skybolt, about six Stearmans and the rest were WACO's. The residential airpark was beautiful; we ate breakfast, stayed about an hour, and flew back. The yellow and green SRE in the last pic once belonged to Frank Borman (Apollo 8 astronaut and former Eastern Airlines Prez). That is truly the hotrod of the WACO family. 9 cyl P&W, cruises at over 175 mph. (this is what the new Sig ARF is)