All Posts Tagged With: "test pilots"
The Cleveland Air Races
I attended the 1947 Cleveland Air Races. My father met me on the excuse he had customers in Cleveland and vicinity. In truth, I felt he didn’t think I’d be around long, and he might get a chance to convince me to give up testing planes. Two F4U Corsairs would be racing and both were [...]
12Jan2010 | Wayne Harding | 0 comments | Continued
Ditching Planes in Long Island Sound
Ditching Planes in Long Island Sound Early summer through late fall of 1946, occasionally photographs were in the New York’s daily newspapers of Navy fighter aircraft having to ditch in the water off the south shore of Long Island due to engine trouble. The pilot always escaped unharmed by swimming or wading ashore [...]
11Jun2009 | Wayne Harding | 1 comment | Continued
Camaraderie at Idlewild Airport
During my two years at Chance Vought Aircraft, construction of a new mammoth airport for New York City was in progress. One runway was so long and wide that many aircraft companies in New England requested and obtained permission to use this runway for emergency and initial flight landings. The airport was called Idlewild until [...]
30May2009 | Wayne Harding | 0 comments | Continued
