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MG TD TF 1500 - Bedinners Luck
| Took the 52 to a show today. Essex county (NJ) airport using airport transfers sevenoaks. Cslled “Wings and Wheels”. Won a trophy for “Best Import” Presentation was better than trophy. Singing Group. Called Bell Tones. WW2 music. Jim B  |
| JA Benjamin |
| Congratulations Jim! Beautiful trophy and lovely presenters! BobbyG |
| Bobby Galvez |
| That will get your oil pressure up there. |
| Bruce Cunha |
| Is that a Freudian slip in the title Jim? Cheers Peter TD 5801 |
| P Hehir |
| How did you get them all home in your TD?? Cheers Gary 79 MGB |
| gary hansen |
| What trophy? Oh, now I see it. :-) Congratulations. Tim |
| Timothy Burchfield |
| Congratulations. I'll bet the presenters did make your day. :-) |
| Christopher Couper |
| The show was also a fly-in of older/historic planes. That part was limited by the overcast and low ceiling. However they did have a C-54 (DC-6) which was in the Berlin Airlift, a B-25 and a F4U Corsair. Pictures in front of the Corsair were available. It took until today to get them. I suggested that next year they should have a Lancaster. Jim B.  |
| JA Benjamin |
| In New Jersey, was this pix taken near Caldwell or further south. Second question: was there a restaurant called 94th Aero Squadron where these pix were taken?? Cheers Gary 79 MGB |
| gary hansen |
| Good Evening Gary; Essex county Airport. I believe its Fairfield, just next to Caldwell. ( googled it, 227 Wright Way, Fairfield. Wright used to have a plant in the NW side of the field. Yes that restaurant used to be almost right there. I never could understand why it went away. It was always busy. I believe it was a chain. I remember going to one at the Orange County Airport (LA) a long time ago. Perhaps the chain went belly-up. Jim B. |
| JA Benjamin |
| The restaurant is still around. The original one is in Van Nuys, north of LA. The Van Nuys airport was built in 1920 and during WWII was an Army Air Force field. So it's a very appropriate setting for a WWII-themed restaurant. https://la.eater.com/2017/9/28/16379702/94th-aero-squadron-restaurant-van-nuys-photos-inside-valley |
| Steve Simmons |
| Steve not wanting to get this off topic but since you seem to be from the general area, Do they still have The Hawthorne Air Faire show at the old Northrop skunk works at the Hawthorne airport? We were down there many years ago (2004) with our vintage Salsbury scooters as part of a display with the Northrop flying wing. It was flown in from the Wings of Fame Collection at Pomona. Very cool aircraft that was powered by two Franklin air cooled engines. The wing also had stealth capabilities as the airframe was made of wood construction. The Salsbury motor scooter became a subsidery of Northrop postwar. The Model 85 was wind tunnel designed by their engineering dept. at Hawthorne and their production was done at a facility in Pomona I have pics of our scooters and the “Flying Wing” Northrop also wheeled out of their Hangar an experimental that looked similar to a cross between the SR-71 BlackBird and the Valkyrie (?) sorry I don’t remember what was it’s exoerimantal contract # We were able to talk with Jack Northrop for an extended period of time while at the show and had a most enjoyable conversation.
I’ll post three pics This is of the “Wing “ preparing for flight from the show  |
| W A Chasser |
Me eith a couple of our scooters and the “Wing”
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| W A Chasser |
Jack Northrop astride one of our Salsbury Model 85 in 2004
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| W A Chasser |
| Oops my mistake the conversation and pic was and is of John Northrop (Jack’s son). Jack passed in 1981 |
| W A Chasser |
| I rarely get down into the "city", which is anything south of LA so unfortunately I don't know anything about the Air Faire or whether or not it's still going. I grew up not too far from the Van Nuys Airport and still get over that way now and then but I moved out of that area years ago. It was an incredible place to grow up but like most of the great places to live, it got overrun and now the boulevards are like parking lots 12 hours a day, and the lawns are all brown. I couldn't take it anymore. |
| Steve Simmons |
| Good Morning Jim B. Yes, now I got it.. It is Essex Co airport I was thinking about. And yes, the 94th Aero Squadron restaurant was a chain. Back in the day I worked for Pan Am Express, the regional airline of Pan Am Airways, in Philadelphia,PA. The 94th Aero Squadron was one of our "watering holes" back then. It was located at N.E. Philly airport. We occupied 2 hangers and an office building at the airfield. Cheers Gary 1979 MGB |
| gary hansen |
| Congratulations Jim. Went all the work you've done I know you deserve it. Too bad I didn't know about the show. It's only an hour away from here. Mort |
| Mort Resnicoff |
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