[Tyler109]

I've got 2 side profile prints from the National Aviation Hall of Fame, One of the X-1 signed by Chuck Yeager and the other one of the D588-2 signed by Scott Crossfield. I also have an Enola Gay print signed by Paul Tibbets, Dutch Van Kirk and I can't remember the 3rd person off the top of my head. I've got the Enola Gay and the X-1 prints framed I'll try to get some pics taken tonight..

[STARMAN 352ND]

Here is a few signed photos of the pilots.
JP


This photo won a Pulitzer Prize action photo of the year 1950.Chet missed that B-29 wing by 5 feet.

[STARMAN 352ND]

I was emailed by a member who asked me who the man was in the PT-17 Stearman.
He was a well know stunt pilot in the late 40's and early 50's.
His most famous career moment has to be that B-29 Picture missing the wing by 5 feet...The story goes like this ..he was already doing his airshow stunts when 3 B-29 Bombers came rolling in a hour late in the middle of his maneuver hew saw the B-29 at the last second and pulled that stick as far as he could to avoid getting killed and the rest is history.....The B-29 pilot i'm sure got a ear full when he landed by the commanding officer..but that's another story.
He did flying stunts for Hollywood too.He was at the controls of the Ryan in the Jimmy Stewart flim
"The Spirit of St Louis" and a few others.
One of the other well know pictures of Chet Derby is flying upside down under the market street bridge.
see picture.
JP

[mustangdriver]

I showed you guys some of my stuff in my gameroom. I have signed photos from Pappy Boyington, some of the band of brothers, Jimmy Doolittle, David Thatcher, Ellen Lawson, Robert Morgan, Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield, Bud Anderson, Robert Scott, Tex Hill, A couple more of the Doolittle Raiders, Dick Rutan, Burt Rutan, Paul Tibbets, and a bunch more. I will post some more pics.

[STARMAN 352ND]

Hey having Boyington,Scott,Doollittle and Hill is sweet.
I have them also but in the books they wrote about their wartime stories.
I'm still trying to get my father's Eddie Rickenbacker signed photo he got back in the late 60's.It has him kinda sitting on top of the Spad cockpit looking down the gunsight with his trademark smile.
I have seen that photo since i was a kid and he said it was mine back then...
I still don't have it yet...lol
JP

[Captain Eddie]

Originally Posted by STARMAN 352ND

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I'm still trying to get my father's Eddie Rickenbacker signed photo he got back in the late 60's.It has him kinda sitting on top of the Spad cockpit looking down the gunsight with his trademark smile.
I have seen that photo since i was a kid and he said it was mine back then...
I still don't have it yet...lol
JP

I wrote Eddie twice back when I was a teenager, and I received a signed photo (in mine, he's standing next to his Spad with his foot up on top of the wheel), plus two signed letters, and also have his autographed autobiography.

I also purchased, for $25, an original, 1st edition, of his first book, "Fighting the Flying Circus" from a used book store in Maine.

Would not part with them for the world!

[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by Captain Eddie

I also purchased, for $25, an original, 1st edition, of his first book, "Fighting the Flying Circus" from a used book store in Maine.

I bet that's the one I turned in, Cappy...Were the pages all smudgy and sticky and filled with Oreo crumbs?

[Captain Eddie]

Originally Posted by SKUNKY

I bet that's the one I turned in, Cappy...Were the pages all smudgy and sticky and filled with Oreo crumbs?

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH, NO!

[STARMAN 352ND]

Originally Posted by Captain Eddie

"Fighting the Flying Circus"

I got that book about a year ago for my father to read and he liked it alot and i have it now ....just have not found the time to read it yet...During the winter i'll read it.
I think anything signed by Rickenbacker is priceless
My uncle has a German sanke card signed by MVR.
I think he must of got it when he married Erika who at the time was his 2nd wife and she was part German.It came from her father i believe.
But it's really old and in a frame still in top shape.
JP

[Tri-motor]

The box cover art on Roden WWI platic kits is hard to beat. In fact it's better than the models. I just cut a bunch out & w/a few thumbtacks....instant aviation art (on the cheap)!