Do you know your history? (part XX)

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Ok guys...more people. And...more people I have actually met and fetched beer for.

Who is it, what are some things he did, and what is the make of the airplane (Manufacturer and nickname are exceptable here).

Also...he was the original owner of the airplane in my avatar. Also...I have a great story about a previous personality that was mentioned.

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OhioStatePilot said:
Len Povey!

Invented the Cuban-Eight... reorganized the Cuban Air Force...
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Len Povey is correct! The airplane he is posed with is a Cuban Curtiss Hawk...of 750hp or so...zoom!

Anyway...Len won the Freddie Lund Trophy in 1933 in the Taperwing in my avatar. That was the top aerobatic trophy of the day back in the thirties. The Miami Air Races in 1934 was where where Batista's representatives "discovered" him and he was invited to Cuba to reorganize the Cuban Air Force.

Povey flew the Wright powered Taperwing to great success. The Taperwing was involved in a mid-air with a guy named Roy "Butterfingers" Hunt flying a Great Lakes. Poves was going to bail...climbed out of the pit and was going to hit the silk...and then saw Harold Neumann in the front pit..."Damn, I forgot about him"...climbed back into the airplane and wrestled it down to a landing that both walked away from. So...the Taperwing was wrecked...and Cuba - with tasty drinks, beaches, and 1,000 HP Curtiss Hawks was calling...

The Cuban 8 was actually a manuever that was a mistake - he was not wanting to create the manuever, but was going to fast to do a snap-roll at the top of the loop or something.

So, Len Povey ties together Freddie Lund (knew him, flew with him, won the Freddie Lund Trophy), Harold Neumann (the mid-air story - friend) and me (Harold was a friend of my Grandpa's and I met Len Povey at the National Waco Club Fly-in when he was an invited guest. It was fun hearing these stories first hand.

And...Curtiss Hawks KICK ASS!
 
WacoFan said:
Len Povey is correct! The airplane he is posed with is a Cuban Curtiss Hawk...of 750hp or so...zoom!

Anyway...Len won the Freddie Lund Trophy in 1933 in the Taperwing in my avatar. That was the top aerobatic trophy of the day back in the thirties. The Miami Air Races in 1934 was where where Batista's representatives "discovered" him and he was invited to Cuba to reorganize the Cuban Air Force.

Povey flew the Wright powered Taperwing to great success. The Taperwing was involved in a mid-air with a guy named Roy "Butterfingers" Hunt flying a Great Lakes. Poves was going to bail...climbed out of the pit and was going to hit the silk...and then saw Harold Neumann in the front pit..."Damn, I forgot about him"...climbed back into the airplane and wrestled it down to a landing that both walked away from. So...the Taperwing was wrecked...and Cuba - with tasty drinks, beaches, and 1,000 HP Curtiss Hawks was calling...

The Cuban 8 was actually a manuever that was a mistake - he was not wanting to create the manuever, but was going to fast to do a snap-roll at the top of the loop or something.

So, Len Povey ties together Freddie Lund (knew him, flew with him, won the Freddie Lund Trophy), Harold Neumann (the mid-air story - friend) and me (Harold was a friend of my Grandpa's and I met Len Povey at the National Waco Club Fly-in when he was an invited guest. It was fun hearing these stories first hand.

And...Curtiss Hawks KICK ASS!
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And I believe it was none other than Jimmy Doolittle who called him out on the maneuver too! :D

Damn cool stories Waco!
 
And...he was pretty short. I met him in 1981 or 82...he was old, and a little stooped. I would estimate his height at around 5'6ish or so.
 
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