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Originally Posted by rsrguy
Please tell me you new Bobby Jones and you have pics of his Pitts and the cassutt / aggressor.
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Ooooooohhhhhhh, It’s been years since that pic was taken. Name sounds very familiar. I will look through my pics. I do better with faces.
I am going to shoot from the hip and say that I do. It’s just been years since I was in the crowd but I did know most the folks in both groups. (the fun bunch, biplane & Formula) It was always funny to see the personalities of each race class. Especially when they had their closed door meeting at one of the local casinos. Biplane meeting would happen and end and everything would be right in the world… Then while walking out you could hear yelling going on in another meeting (T-6 class). At that time, that class was an angry group. lol
Here is a humorous Class breakdown from my crew days. This is made in jest and having fun. That is all…..
Formula & BiPlane- fun loving beer drinking group
Sport Class-Mostly Tec folks
T-6 Class - Looked down on F-1, Biplane and Sport. Had more money than most but not enough to play in the Unlimited crowd. Much internal infighting and angry an group.
Unlimited n Jet - The rich uncle bunch. Good natured and fiercely competitive amongst themselves.
In all, we would be up there for the entire week, met a lot of great people, had fun, laughed a lot. Unfortunately, as with many high speed dangerous sport, we lost friends along the way. RIP to all the aviators that flew skyward for the final flight.
Cheers
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