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 flown to our factory at Stratford, CT; one by a racing pilot, and the other by a friend of the owner of both planes. They came on successive days; the friend came second. A crowd gathered to see the second’s landing. The F4U was so stripped for loss of weight; the radio was missing. As the pilot turned into his final leg for landing, the audience saw his wheels were NOT down. The crowd waved frantically in every fashion possible – with arms, coats, and even jumping up and down – to tell him his wheels were not down. But the pilot misunderstood, and thought we were waving a welcome to him…. He just kept smiling.

Needless to say, there was only one F4U in the Cleveland Air Races in 1947.

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