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Received
31 January 2006 from Steve Phillips. Reply to:
sphillips1@wyoming.com
Mr. O'Rorke,
My name is Steve
Phillips. I am the Director of Maintenance for Rich
Sugden who has the only flying FJ-4B. We are looking for
any tailhook assembly parts from a 3, or, 4 to make the
bird original. I was wondering if anyone in your
organization might know of any parts or hulks sitting in
a scrap yard or elsewhere that would help us in
completing this project.
I appreciate any
help you may give me.
Sincerely,
Steve
Received
22 May 2005 from Mike Bennett. Reply to:
MBenShar@aol.com
Dear Sir,
Please excuse this unsolicited
email and I hope that having read it you will feel able
to post it to your members or run a short request in your
association magazine.
Since the early 1980s I
have been researching the history, development and use of
assisted aircrew escape systems (ejection seats, escape
capsules, pods, rocket extraction systems - anything that
pulled, pushed or persuaded an aircrew person to escape a
doomed aircraft). To ensure accuracy I have always
attempted to contact those people who were
there.
One major part of this
study is to compile as complete a listing as is humanly
possible of every person from around the world who has
ejected using any of the previously mentioned assisted
escape systems.
I have many thousands of
listed ejections from a multitude of sources and dozens
of replies from people who ejected including Luftwaffe
crews from WW2, Korean, Vietnam, Falklands and Gulf
conflicts, test parachutists who live tested these
systems and many others.
Several years ago it was
my privilege to make contact with the NAM POWs. Capt Mike
McGrath then generously, along with many other former
POWs including Paul Galanti kindly distributed my request
for help to hundreds of former POWs and a high percentage
replied with information on their ejection and the
surrounding circumstances. Replies still come
in.
I know from research that
hundreds of USAF / USN / US Army / USMC and ANG pilots
and crew ejected since the late 1940s in training and
operational losses and combat
situations.
I would be very grateful if any
of you who ejected at any time in your careers would be
prepared to answer a short questionnaire about your
ejection(s) and if possible provide me with a photo of
yourself circa that period. If you witnessed any ejection
by a comrade or enemy I would also appreciate detais, no
matter how small, on any ejection, capsule or
parachute extraction &endash; successful or
not.
As I have already contacted
(many NAM-POWS and Red River Rats) this request is really
for all other pilots and aircrews and so
that others might be made aware of this
request. All I can really add is that I take
this research seriously and prefer to seek the advice and
help of people such as yourselves rather than "cold call"
or send unsolicited emails or snail mail.
My sincere thanks to you
for reading this and I look forward to your
reply.
Mike
Bennett
Received
30 Jun 04 from Harvey
McFadden.
Reply by email to:
hsm75_us@yahoo.com
Saw your web site and was hoping
for help in researching the history of our F8A. Our
plane was donated for display in front of our NJROTC
building at M.B. Smiley H.S. in Houston, Texas in
1972. I was a student here then and am now an
instructor. The plane came to us from Ellington
Field, Houston, but from its tail marking of 7D, we know
it last flew out of NAS Dallas. It also had both Navy and
Marines on the side, indicating it was used by both
services' reservist in Dallas. I've tried to
use its serial number to learn more about its history but
have had little luck. Given the data here, could you
possibly tell us more ie Vietnam service? Last
pilot? Squadron? etc.
F8A • 7D on tail
• Serial #: 142412 • 20 on each side of
the cockpit
Thanks.
Harvey McFadden,
STSCS(SS) USN(ret)
M.B. Smiley NJROTC, Houston,
Texas
Received 29 SEP
02 from Pete Killie. Reply by email
to: Pete
@
Kille2044@cs.com
Dear Sir; I am a former Marine
who is doing research for an article on VMSB-235. I would
like to contact anyone who has any information on the
original VMSB-235 squadron patch that was made in
Australia circa early 1944. In addition I would like to
contact anyone who knew or has information about Lt. John
C. (Jack) Hayde (pilot) and/or Staff Sergeant Aubrey C.
Taylor (gunner). I would appreciate any help. Regards and
Semper Fidelis, Pete Killie, Ridgefield Detachment,
Marine Corps League (203)798-6678
Received 19 FEB
01 from Tim Mann. Reply by email to:
Tim
at
