On Oct 19, 10:31*am, Nimbob wrote:
Wurtsboro used to have Birdogs - maybe they still do? I remember they
had a lot of spare parts in the hangar - wonder if the are still
there. Engines in cans, rows of wings stacked up. George used to hand-
prop the L-19 when I was flying there, not sure if the starter was
failed or missing, or if he just enjoyed hand-propping.

The author of the Bird Dog book, Minard Thompson has an office just
down the hall from my office here.

Jim

George used to have seven L-19's. Three of them were flying, and four
were a source of spare parts.
He did hand-prop for the same reason he was towing with an almost dry
tanks. He believed that there is no point of taking heavy starter or
unneeded gas... up and down, hundred times a day.
Richard
BTW. George Baron and his father were a Great American Aviators. They
are worth of some sort of historical biography. Now , when they are
gone, nobody seams to care for who they were, and what they did for
American Soaring.. Very soon nobody will remember their names.