I was fortunate to have met Pete Mann just a couple of weeks before his passing. He saw me and my van in the parking lot at Nancy’s doing a car job and hired me to work on a lock at one of his buildings at the airport. Job took 15 min but we talked about the history of the Airport etc for probably 45-hour. He mentioned a lot of things you did in this video. Very cool stuff!
Losing him was a huge loss to the community. I'm glad you got to meet him. That's the tough part about knowing so many amazing pilots in the area, everytime we get toned out to an aircraft down I'm terrified it's going to be a friend or family member. I've been on two fatal aircraft crash calls, one being Mr. Mann, and several others that have been near fatalities. Very few calls get my Adrenaline pumping anymore, but aircraft down ones spike it everytime.
My neighbor in Chico was the wife of one of Dolittle’s Raid members- Ted Lawson. He flew the Ruptured Duck.
Great job Tim! Keep them coming!!
That's incredible! I'll have to research into that. Thank you Mrs. Ball!
I was fortunate to have met Pete Mann just a couple of weeks before his passing. He saw me and my van in the parking lot at Nancy’s doing a car job and hired me to work on a lock at one of his buildings at the airport. Job took 15 min but we talked about the history of the Airport etc for probably 45-hour. He mentioned a lot of things you did in this video. Very cool stuff!
Losing him was a huge loss to the community. I'm glad you got to meet him. That's the tough part about knowing so many amazing pilots in the area, everytime we get toned out to an aircraft down I'm terrified it's going to be a friend or family member. I've been on two fatal aircraft crash calls, one being Mr. Mann, and several others that have been near fatalities. Very few calls get my Adrenaline pumping anymore, but aircraft down ones spike it everytime.