| Fred Franz, e-mail, 09.02.2014 03:15 You all have to visit Troy for the WACO fly-in late summer they have arond 20 0r more WACOs Google WACO airplanes for date reply |
| leslie ridge, e-mail, 23.09.2011 16:53 I helped salty junker work on engines and sell rides on sunday for a buck. flew from evansville ind airport over city and back.. thought there was a waco (f) and a waco (a ) I am now 88 reply |
| Jim Ross, e-mail, 03.06.2011 03:21 My dad flew (in Indiana) with a pal in the years after WW2 and the pal had a WACO 6. I would like to see a photo of this plane...just out of curiosity. They used to land in cow pastures and ask permission to fish the farm ponds. reply |
| Lenny Ohlsson, e-mail, 10.05.2011 16:51 I acquired my WACO UPF-7 N30199,ten years ago and have enjoyed it so much that I have put 1400 hours in it. From Spruce Creek Fly-In Daytona Beach, Florida, I have flown around the lower 48 states three times and up in to northern Alaska north of the arctic circle. This summer I am heading to Labrador. It is a great flying plane. reply |
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| Don P. Simons, e-mail, 30.01.2011 07:13 I was a lucky kid at Bernard Airport in Youngstown, Ohio. I was 17 when I checked out in UPF-7 NC32167. I loved to do aerobatics and inverted you had better get some forward pressure applied. Rolled nicely, engine quit throughout most of the roll - dirt off the belly flying around - how I miss that! I worked at the airport for several years and got to fly the old-good stuff - YES! reply |
| Dick Weir, e-mail, 18.12.2010 22:48 I flew the Waco UPF-7 in CPTP Secondary training in 1942. An hour of aerobatics was a physical work-out. It was winter in Massachusetts and I flew until I could barely feel my feet while sitting on each hand alternately. I would gladly do it again if I could pass a flight physical. reply |
| Wesley Harrison, e-mail, 13.12.2010 04:32 My first flight was in a UPF7 as one of two passengers in the front cockpit in 1945. The flight lasted for about 15 minutes and we flew from a pasture just north of McGehee Arkansas and then over my home town of Dermott. It cost me five dollars and was the best $5 I ever spent. reply |
| Rudy Schroeder, e-mail, 10.12.2010 02:12 I was part owner in Waco UPF-7 N29300. I flew it a few times over Seattle in 1665 when I was a traffic reporter for radio KOL while my Beach Musketeer was getting its 100 hr. I was promoted as "The KOL Sky Spy". I was 35 at the time. I wish I still had it. I have pictures. reply |
| John Wicklund, e-mail, 30.11.2010 19:03 Under the Air Corps WTS we flew a Waco UPF7,. or am I incorrect? reply |
| R. Rodzewicz, e-mail, 04.03.2010 19:57 Check out the Waco Museum and annual fly-in of new and vintage Waco's in Troy Ohio (near the original plant of manufacture of the vintage aircraft). Those few models shown here are dwarfed by real flying beauties. reply |
| John Coleman, e-mail, 22.01.2010 18:55 My wife and I flew as passengers (2 of us in the front seat)in one of these at the Boeing Airfield. It had the original instruments....flew a left hand rectagonal pattern out over the Sound at an altitude that was just below that of tallest building in downtown Seattle.....what a hoot! reply |
| DAVE MEIER, e-mail, 12.01.2010 09:06 I beleive the worlds largest collection of WACO aircraft may be at ST. LOUIS--CREVE COEUR (1H0) reply |
