Do you remember the Comic strip "Buzz Sawyer"?
Jun 9, 2020 12:20:51 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
Do you remember the Comic strip "Buzz Sawyer"? Buzz Sawyer was an Aeronautical Engineer/ U.S, Navy Test pilot back in the late 40s/ early 50s. I use to read it religiously in the Traverse City Record Eagle every day and it was how I determine my carriers path as early as the 7th grade, These are three of the aircraft he was suppose to have flown. Somehow, without my realizing it, the strip just disappeared.
Jun 9, 2020 12:59:18 #
Of course I remember, it's only my short term memory that's gone. I had bubble gum cards of those and so many more. Remember the "Flying Wing"
Jun 9, 2020 13:04:55 #
alx
Loc: NJ
I remember seeing an actual Sea Dart on display at the Willow Grove NAS back when I was a kid.
Jun 9, 2020 13:10:54 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
Do you remember the Comic strip "Buzz Sawyer"? Buzz Sawyer was an Aeronautical Engineer/ U.S, Navy Test pilot back in the late 40s/ early 50s. I use to read it religiously in the Traverse City Record Eagle every day and it was how I determine my carriers path as early as the 7th grade, These are three of the aircraft he was suppose to have flown. Somehow, without my realizing it, the strip just disappeared.
Had a model of a Pogo Stick when I was kid. I always wondered what a ride it would be to land that thing backwards. Now days it would be a piece of cake with the computers doing the job.
Jun 9, 2020 13:13:12 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Of course I remember, it's only my short term memory that's gone. I had bubble gum cards of those and so many more. Remember the "Flying Wing"
Two Flying Wings, the prop pusher and the jet, neat stuff back then.
Jun 9, 2020 13:18:14 #
The Florida Air Museum in Lakeland has the two Convair aircraft on display outside the museum. Great indoor displays as well.
Jun 9, 2020 13:23:00 #
Jun 9, 2020 13:25:41 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
Biggest problem with a lot of these aircraft was that jet engines were not really powerful enough yet and politics The first flying wings were undercu mostly by politics and "It don't look like no airplane to me".
How about "BLACKHAWKS"?
How about "BLACKHAWKS"?
Jun 9, 2020 13:31:43 #
Beowulf
Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
Biggest problem with a lot of these aircraft was that jet engines were not really powerful enough yet and politics The first flying wings were undercu mostly by politics and "It don't look like no airplane to me".
How about "BLACKHAWKS"?
How about "BLACKHAWKS"?
Yep, remember both Buz and Blackhawks. Had quite a collection of Blackhawks comic books in the early to mid-50's. Terry and the Pirates was another comics favorite.
Jun 9, 2020 14:14:40 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
Do you remember the Comic strip "Buzz Sawyer"? Buzz Sawyer was an Aeronautical Engineer/ U.S, Navy Test pilot back in the late 40s/ early 50s. I use to read it religiously in the Traverse City Record Eagle every day and it was how I determine my carriers path as early as the 7th grade, These are three of the aircraft he was suppose to have flown. Somehow, without my realizing it, the strip just disappeared.
For those who don't remember - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buz_Sawyer
Jun 9, 2020 19:50:52 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
Biggest problem with a lot of these aircraft was that jet engines were not really powerful enough yet and politics The first flying wings were undercu mostly by politics and "It don't look like no airplane to me".
How about "BLACKHAWKS"?
How about "BLACKHAWKS"?
Good god I love "BLACKHAWKS" I remember them flying jet planes. F-105?. A few years back I read that some one was going to make a movie of them.
Jun 9, 2020 19:53:58 #
Jun 10, 2020 07:44:18 #
Matches Malone wrote:
I remember not reading it in the LA Times in the 60's.
Very cool pics.
Very cool pics.
OK, you got me. How can you remember not reading it? I remember actually reading it...
Jun 10, 2020 08:01:33 #
I can vividly remember driving past the Martin plant when I was still in Baltimore and passing a field with a whole bunch of the P6Ms parked after rejection by USN.
Jun 10, 2020 08:19:24 #
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