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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
HarperCollins has just published a revised, updated, and shortened (!) edition of "Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942". Thanks in large part to people I met on this newsgroup, it's a much improved version of what Smithsonian Institution Press published in 1991 with a slightly different title. I think particularly of Corey Jordan, who put me straight on the P-40s flown by the AVG, and the late Erik Shilling, who tried (not always with success) to put me straight about just about everything. They and others are saluted in the preface, which you can read online at www.FlyingTigersBook.com/preface.htm "In this second edition of his 'revisionist' history masterpiece, Daniel Ford tightens up the tale, corrects a few errors, and adds dramatic new details." -- says JDR in an online review: http://seacoastnh.com/The_Arts/Book_.../Flying_Tigers As always, Amazon.com has the best price on the book at $10.85. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...1246557/annals or at the Amazon sites for Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. For a bit more money, you can get a signed copy. Point your browser at www.FlyingTigersBook.com or send an email to usenet[AT]danford[DOT]net (with the obvious changes). Blue skies! -- Dan Ford Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
For a bit more money, you can get a signed copy. Point your browser atwww.FlyingTigersBook.comor send an email to usenet[AT]danford[DOT]net
(with the obvious changes). Dan, you've got amazing timing. Mary and I just returned home from working all day on our upcoming "Flying Tigers Suite", which (although it's gonna be one of our cheaper suites -- sans hot tub) is going to be very nice. We started with an absolute wreck of a suite -- it's our last one to be remodeled, and had been occupied for the last two years by a professor emeritus with a dog and a serious hygiene problem -- and have built, entirely from scratch (I'm talking back to the studs), a really nice, comfortable suite that will commemorate the AVG and their Chinese allies... Everything -- drywall, carpet, furniture, closet doors -- is brand new. We're trying to make it look "oriental" while still being sturdy enough to survive the real world of hotel guests -- no mean feat. (We learned long ago that delicate, cool-looking chairs will NOT survive daily use by the average-sized American, for example.) We've acquired a nice collection of Flying Tigers artwork, and plan to spend tomorrow hanging it all.... Sign me up for a copy of your book! We'll keep it in our 200+ volume aviation library, for Flying Tigers aficianados to enjoy... (I'll check out the website shortly...) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
Cubdriver wrote:
HarperCollins has just published a revised, updated, and shortened (!) edition of "Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942". Thanks in large part to people I met on this newsgroup, it's a much improved version of what Smithsonian Institution Press published in 1991 with a slightly different title. I think particularly of Corey Jordan, who put me straight on the P-40s flown by the AVG, and the late Erik Shilling, who tried (not always with success) to put me straight about just about everything. They and others are saluted in the preface, which you can read online at www.FlyingTigersBook.com/preface.htm Hi Dan; It was very good of you to say these things, especially about Erik. I'm beginning to form a whole new picture of you. You just might in fact, if it means anything to you, have discovered a new friend. I would like to personally wish you the best of luck with your new book. Dudley Henriques -- Dudley Henriques |
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:38:40 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote: It was very good of you to say these things, especially about Erik Though wary to the end, we actually got along fairly well once we took the discussion off the internet. Erik did two huge favors for me. First, he annotated a copy of the RAF pilot's manual for the P-40 Tomahawk, which I posted at www.warbirdforum.com/manual.htm (comments beginning ES: are by him, and help document the likelihood that Curtiss-Wright retrofitted the Tomahawks sent to China with fuel tanks and other parts intended for an earlier model). Second, he goaded me into taking flying lessons. ("Of course Ford is not a pilot ....") Thanks to Erik, I was duly certificated at age 68, and I'm now working on a scheme to get a little stick time in a P-40 Blue skies! -- Dan Ford Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
Cubdriver wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:38:40 -0400, Dudley Henriques wrote: It was very good of you to say these things, especially about Erik Though wary to the end, we actually got along fairly well once we took the discussion off the internet. Erik did two huge favors for me. First, he annotated a copy of the RAF pilot's manual for the P-40 Tomahawk, which I posted at www.warbirdforum.com/manual.htm (comments beginning ES: are by him, and help document the likelihood that Curtiss-Wright retrofitted the Tomahawks sent to China with fuel tanks and other parts intended for an earlier model). Second, he goaded me into taking flying lessons. ("Of course Ford is not a pilot ....") Thanks to Erik, I was duly certificated at age 68, and I'm now working on a scheme to get a little stick time in a P-40 Blue skies! -- Dan Ford Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com Erik was indeed an unusual guy. Bea and I stopped out to see him on the way to Garden Grove and visited with him for the day. At the time, he was deeply involved in trying to get to the bottom of a situation out there in California involving a character going around giving speeches wearing all kinds of decorations saying he was a member of the AVG. Erik was as mad as a hatter about it and was trying to enlist just about everybody to help in exposing the "intruder". I think he got the Rossi's involved and me as well. I made a few phone calls to contacts I had out there and the last I heard, the guy was "exposed". Erik was still flying. He and his son were flying a Steen Skybolt if I remember right. I brought Erik out an hour long tape Bob Scott had sent to me after his wife died. Bob was feeling low one night and just set up a tape recorder and talked into it for an hour reminiscing about everything from Chennault and tactics to Wong Cook and the Panay sinking. I gave a copy of the tape to Erik and I have the original. To my knowledge, these are the only two copies in existence. I did make a CD that will go to the Museum at Warner Robbins upon my death. Good luck with your P40 exploits. Let me know how it goes. You did well learning to fly at 68, and the Cub was a great choice. Best, -- Dudley Henriques |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
In a previous article, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT net said:
First, he annotated a copy of the RAF pilot's manual for the P-40 Tomahawk, which I posted at www.warbirdforum.com/manual.htm (comments http://www.warbirdforum.com/manual3.htm "(iv) Radiator control adjusted to keep coolant temperature between 85°C minimum and 12585°C maximum." That's one jeezly hot radiator. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ There's this special biologist word we use for "stable". It's "dead". -- Jack Cohen |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:09:59 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote: http://www.warbirdforum.com/manual3.htm "(iv) Radiator control adjusted to keep coolant temperature between 85°C minimum and 12585°C maximum." That's one jeezly hot radiator. Now fixed. Thanks for heads-up! Blue skies! -- Dan Ford Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
Thanks for heads-up!
Hey Dan, do me a favor and check my page he http://www.alexisparkinn.com/the_flying_tiger_suite.htm I just threw that page of Flying Tigers history together, for the new suite (first booking tonight!), and just want to make sure I got my AVG facts straight. Thanks! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
On Aug 22, 8:48 am, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT net wrote:
HarperCollins has just published a revised, updated, and shortened (!) edition of "Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942". Thanks in large part to people I met on this newsgroup, it's a much improved version of what Smithsonian Institution Press published in 1991 with a slightly different title. I think particularly of Corey Jordan, who put me straight on the P-40s flown by the AVG, and the late Erik Shilling, who tried (not always with success) to put me straight about just about everything. They and others are saluted in the preface, which you can read online atwww.FlyingTigersBook.com/preface.htm "In this second edition of his 'revisionist' history masterpiece, Daniel Ford tightens up the tale, corrects a few errors, and adds dramatic new details." -- says JDR in an online review:http://seacoastnh.com/The_Arts/Book_.../Flying_Tigers As always, Amazon.com has the best price on the book at $10.85. Check it out atwww.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061246557/annalsor at the Amazon sites for Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. For a bit more money, you can get a signed copy. Point your browser atwww.FlyingTigersBook.comor send an email to usenet[AT]danford[DOT]net (with the obvious changes). Blue skies! -- Dan Ford Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 new from HarperCollinswww.FlyingTigersBook.com Well done, Dan! A new book to add for me, goody. I well remember meeting Mr. Shilling at an air show at Gillespie Field, and we talked about this newsgroup, and the AVG, and yes, Dan Ford - Erik was a character-and-a-half. BCNU, Rob |
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and all that
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:48:31 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote in : HarperCollins has just published a revised, updated, and shortened (!) edition of "Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942". Congratulations. I wish you all the best. It seems that there are several aviation authors among the readership of rec.aviation.*. Are you able to point me toward a resource, like a roster or other documentation, that will shed any light on an individual Flying Tiger? I used to work with a Zinsco salesman named Arnold Moselle who once mentioned that he was a member of the Flying Tigers that flew the hump. As I recall, the hump was the Himalaya Mountains. I guess not all Flying Tigers flew P40s. |
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