[simpits-tech] Flash! Beagle's Name Found! w0Ot!

[Rod Dale]

I traced my F-111 cockpit back to Marshalls Timber Yard and Metal Land. 
Only info I could get was a couple of invoices and receipts. Someone told 
me it's possible that my F-111 actually started off as a tree in a State 
Forest :-) No Buno for me neither :-)
Rod

At 09:59 AM 5/23/03 -0500, you wrote:
>That's great Gene. I traced my Skyhawk cockpit
>back to the original company that bought several
>TA-4's from the government. They won't release
>any information about them. So, I'm still at a dead
>end. No Buno, nothing.
>
>Craig
>TA-4J
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Roy Coates [mailto:roy@flightlab.liv.ac.uk]
>Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:16 AM
>To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
>Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Flash! Beagle's Name Found! w0Ot!
>
>
>On Thu, 22 May 2003, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
> > I *finally* got confirmation of my suspicion!  My F-15C fuselage section
> > is *definately* 80-0007.
> >
> > The jet was written off due to a landing accident in Soesterberg, The
> > Netherlands in 1981.  At the time of the accident, it had a mere 15 hours
> > of time since it was born in St. Louis.
> >
> > If you've ever seen pictures of an F-15 taken mid-landing/crashing, you've
> > probably seen mah girl. :)
> >
> >
> > I would've liked to have thanked the pilot that "donated" my jet to the
> > DRMO, but he was killed in an accident at Langley AFB in 1986 or '87.
> > I'll host a virtual beer to him anyway.
>
>
>Congrats, gene :)   It's nice to have that history.
>
>Oh, and *I* will look after the beer ;>
>
>Roy.
>
>
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