TuFun
November 26th, 2011, 14:29
I was listening to this broadcast this morning of Dave Bowman recalling his flights in SO3C.
91-year-old Dave Bowman appears on the November 26, 2011 edition of Hometown Heroes, recalling his adventures - and misadventures - with "the plane that wouldn't fly," the Curtiss Wright SO3C Seamew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_SO3C_Seamew).
"That's the title of Bowman's memoirs, detailing how he and the other pilots of the USS Columbia's Vee Division burned through 16 of those planes before Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq36-5.htm) put an end to the poorly-conceived aircraft's involvement in the Pacific War."
Broadcast link: http://wpc.309d.edgecastcdn.net/80309D/kmjl/common/global_audio/174/42096.mp3
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91-year-old Dave Bowman appears on the November 26, 2011 edition of Hometown Heroes, recalling his adventures - and misadventures - with "the plane that wouldn't fly," the Curtiss Wright SO3C Seamew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_SO3C_Seamew).
"That's the title of Bowman's memoirs, detailing how he and the other pilots of the USS Columbia's Vee Division burned through 16 of those planes before Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq36-5.htm) put an end to the poorly-conceived aircraft's involvement in the Pacific War."
Broadcast link: http://wpc.309d.edgecastcdn.net/80309D/kmjl/common/global_audio/174/42096.mp3
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