What's your fancy? Warbirds? This Corsair is in beautiful condition, and its livery is a great reminder of its original unit.

I've always been partial to the lighter stuff, myself. Here's an Ercoupe. For the unitiated, that's pronounced AIR-coupe. This one is more than fifty years old.

Here's where Ercoupe drivers do their thing. Yeah, it's not a 747 flight deck but it does have satellite navigation.

This little guy was considered state of the art around the time of World War 2. In the original version, all steering was done with the wheel..no rudder pedals. Some later models had pedals. One of these was used in the first rocket-assisted takeoff tests. And it survived very nicely, thank you.

This is Jim Younkin of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and his friend, that big white airplane behind him, is "Mister Mulligan."

Jim built the plane, which is a scratch-built recreation of the famous racer that won the Bendix Trophy in 1935. Jim says the original, flown by Benny Howard and Gordon Israel, beat the flamboyant Roscoe Turner by less than a minute. Roscoe might have won, he says, if he hadn't stopped to have his picture taken so often.

Harold Newman, who flew the original in 1934, got to fly Jim's creation in 1982. Younkin says Newman upset the FAA a little when he rolled it close to the ground. He describes Newman as being like a "child at Christmas" around the airplane. Bob Hoover flew it, too. Younkin recalls the famous stunter flying the airplane with just two fingers on the stick. He says Hoover would "roll it and he would turn around and say "fantastic" and then he would roll it again. He did that three times," Jim says, "so it must be a pretty good flying airplane." Seems like a pretty good test to me.

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