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CAF Centex Wing Dinner 1-16-1993
The 1993 annual Central Texas Wing of the Confederate Air Force dinner. Master of Ceremony, Col. Lillian Ayars, Wing Leader was the first CAF female Wing Leader. Awards were handed out by Col. Chet Cochan. Col. Jim Lux covered the Wing's successful events of the year 1992 including completion of negotiations for the hangar with the City of San Marcos, the first "Gathering of Memories" airshow and dinner dance and more. USAF Col. Scott, Commander of Bergstrom Air Force Base also made a presentation.
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CAF Central Texas Wing P-38 Lightning Scatterbrain Kid II Unveiling
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The Central Texas Wing of the Confederate Air Force spent ten years restoring the P-38 Lightning Scatterbrain Kid II. Restoration was completed in February 1992. The unveiling took place in March.
The first 4 flights of the CAF, Central Texas Wing P-38 beginning February 28, 1992
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After a 10 restoration effort the P-38 Lightning "Scatterbrain Kid II flew for the first time on February 28,1992. This is a long video that includes ground tests, the first four flights. There is excellent arial footage and several extremely low passes can be seen during the fourth flight near the end of the video. The Scatterbrain Kid II crashed at an air show in Breckinridge, Texas in 1994. ...
General Dick Baughn celebrating his 101st birthday with a ride in a PT-19
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Brig. Gen. Richard M. "Dick" Baughn is a veteran of WWII, Korea & Vietnam. He flew 52 missions in the P-51 Mustang in WWII including missions during "Operation Market Garden" and the "Battle of The Bulge." He flew the F-84 Fighter Bomber during the Korean Conflict. Dick was a test pilot on the F-104 Starfighter. He did five combat tours in Vietnam. He was Squadron Commander of the 13th Tactical...
Central Texas Wing P-38 to the 1992 CAF Air Show in Midland, Texas
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The P-38 Lightning Pathfinder flying to and from the CAF Midland airshow in 1992. This was the only time it participated in the Midland airshow. There is extensive video of the P-38 in Flight.
A Tribute to Olafur Marteinsson 1944-2024
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Icelander Olafur "Oli" Martiensson was a wonderful man a great friend. It was Oli's idea to build a monument in honor of the the crew and passengers on the B-24 Liberator Hot Stuff that crashed on Mt. Fagardalsjfjall, Icelanld on May 3, 1943. The monument would never have been built if it hadn't been for him and his brother Doddi. I will be forever grateful to them. Jim Lux
1992 Gathering of Memories Limited Air Show
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The 1992 Central Texas Wing of the Confederate Air Force "Gathering of Memories Air Show in San Marcos, Texas featuring the great airplanes of World War II.
1993 Gathering of Memories Limited Air Show
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The 1993Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force "Gathering of Memories Air Show in San Marcos, Texas featuring the great airplanes of World War II.
1999 Gathering of Memories Air Show
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The 1999 Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force "Gathering of Memories Air Show in San Marcos, Texas featuring the great airplanes of World War I
1996 Gathering of Memories Air Show
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The Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force 1996 Air Show honoring those who built, flew and maintained them during World War II.
1995 Gathering of Memories Air Show
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The 1995 Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force "Gathering of Memories" Air Show featuring the great airplanes of World War II in honor of those who built, flew and maintained them.
History of the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in 1993 Part 3
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1.Flying to the Georgetown, Texas Air Show in the T-34. Flying to CAF Headquarters Air Show in Midland, 2. Continueing Centex Wing hangar resteration. 3. Texas in the P-38 Scatterbrain Kid II. Returning to San Marcos, Texas from the air show in the P- 38. 4. Santa Claus visits the CAF Central Texas Wing in San Marcos, TX
History of the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in 1993 Part 2
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History of the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in 1993 Part 2
History of the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in 1993 Part 1
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History of the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in 1993 Part 1
History of the Central Texas Wing of the Commorative Air Force 1992 Part 1
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History of the Central Texas Wing of the Commorative Air Force 1992 Part 1
View from the Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Monument in Iceland
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View from the Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Monument in Iceland
Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Monument Potential New Location
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Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Monument Potential New Location
93rd Bombardment Group Association Annual Reunion in 2018
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93rd Bombardment Group Association Annual Reunion in 2018
Hot Stuff Monument Installation and Dedication Ceremony in Grindavik, Iceland May 3, 2018
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Hot Stuff Monument Installation and Dedication Ceremony in Grindavik, Iceland May 3, 2018
Still sharp as TACK ! Thank You so much for taking Dick up he is a Great Man and Thank you so much for Honoring him. Dick Buddy You ar the Best.
101? His recollection, cognitive ability at that age is amazing! Thank you for your service General!
Moet denken aan de Fokker G 1 !
What version of the P-38 is this ? The night fighter had a raised canopy like this one but not a plexiglass nose . it had a radar pod jyst under the nose . the bomber version ad a plexiglass glass nose but not a raised canopy . I know some was used in recon missions maybe that's what this one did . I'm just wondering of course there was the fighter escort version. Oh I think I just seen a norden bomb sight .
The Scatterbrain Kid II was restored from parts of three P-38s. One of them saw combat in WWII but, unfortunately, not additional information is available. It was a combination J, K and L model with night fighter canopy for the radar operator and pathfinder nose with norden bomb site. It was probably the only three place P-38 ever built.
Looks like there's room for 3 in that P-38. One pilot, one copilot, and one forward observer. 🤠🤠🤠
60 years ago I don't mind to fly in a PT 19, it scares me...
Awesome footage. Thank you so much for posting this.
Confederate air force!😳 Jman
Yes, they totally dominated the Yankees. 🥸
Nope this plane was not involved in a fatal crash. I was at Breckenridge with Lefty Gardner (not the pilot of this aircraft) when the aircraft went down. There were 2 onboard and minor injuries were sustained. The aircraft had an engine issue on take off and then the good engine was accidentally shut down.
It was never stated it was involved in a fatal crash. The pilot received a laceration on his forehead & was temporarily knocked unconscious. His female passenger was unharmed. The engines were fine. The pilot took off with the fuel selectors in in the auxiliary tanks position. The P-38 didn’t have auxiliary tanks. The engines were starving for fuel. The right engine quit & tried to feather it but he feathered the running engine…..& that is why it crashed!
@@JimLuxB24 No it was not you I was referring to, it was a comment further down on the list. Yes you are correct, Laurie was unharmed. Sorry for the confusion.
Oops! I apologize! I did misstate that it was a fatal crash. The of my reply, however, is correct.
Vv You may be confusing this crash with the crash of the original Scatterbrain Kid. The original Scatterbrain Kid crashed on October 19, 1974 in Lafayette, Louisiana. I was at the scene of the crash and watched the firetrucks put out the fire. The pilot, last name Harper, was killed in the crash. The summary of the crash is contained in the NTSB report. The tail number of the aircraft was N38LL. After that crash, the owners purchased a P-38 center section with no wings, no tail booms, no nose cone and started a rebuild project in Lafayette, Louisiana. The project was moved to Alexandria, Louisiana at the England Air Force Base, which is now closed. the project was then moved to Midland. This is my recollection from working on the aircraft in the mid 70s in Lafayette, Louisiana.
101 and doing good...good for him
I wish the builders had foresight to keep building a bunch of war materials. Guns, planes, etc. Even the axis powers.
Thx for sharing
That's history right there. Most folks don't realize that the man flying the 38 in this video is Sandy Sansing. Sandy joined the USAAC as an enlisted man and started flying right after Pearl Harbor. This man flew all the way through WW2, was shot down in France in 1944, evaded capture, went back to his outfit and finished WW2, and flew all the way through the Vietnam War. And here is, on video, still flying warbirds...50 years after he started. Sandy left us in 2014.
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beautiful, old school human being. a dyeing breed for sure.
That’s my great grandfather. Happy birthday!!
Those who love the vastness of the sky ❤. “ kid you’re natural “
I know the name of the pilot but I’m not going to disclose it.
For you to know and for us to find out like cindy brady once said?😳 Jman
This P38 was lost in a fatal crash not long after this; I don’t know if it was this pilot I cant remember his name
Don't know who the pilot was but the accident of "Scatterbrain Kid II" was not fatal and in fact there were only minor injuries sustained. The remains are currently with Westpac in Colorado and it was being restored back to airworthy for Paul Allen before his unfortunate passing. It is now owned by Steuart Walton but I have no idea if he plans to complete the restoration. You may be thinking of the original (single seat) "Scatterbrain Kid" which was lost in a fatal crash in 1974 that killed pilot George Harper.
100% wrong
Happy birthday and thanks for your service sir ❤❤😊
The good ol days of the Confederate Air Force
Sincere congratulations from France Sir.Respectfully .
If I had the power , .... I would grant Dick another life. We are in very short supply Real Mentors to follow. Instead the masses idolise spoilt sport brats, film stars and other undeserving sods. They worship self-serving pretendie people. Dick is a wonderful representation of the Great Generation. Today it's the "Me Generation" ......... good luck for the futurte with that Thank you for this wonderful post Jim. Please pass on my Best wishes, Barry M. Australia.
Happy Birthday Dick. Love you sir
There was never a day I did not want to fly!!!
Thank you for making such a special day for such a special guy. General Baughn is a national treasure!!!!
Amazing! He barely looks 85! What a thrill of a ride.
Still flyin’ at 101. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday General Baughn! Great to see you doing so well.
Nancy & Jim Lux .. the best friends I am blessed to know 💖💖🫂🫂🙏🙏👍
Sending you ALL much LOVE 🥰
Absolutely loved this video clip .. thank you for sharing .. can’t wait to get a Hug next Friday 🌻🫂🦋🙏
That was back in the old days when John Stokes was running the show
Nice footage 👍 I flew with Central Texas Wing last summer in a USAF Cessna U-3. Keep em flying
Just about the end of the great old days of the CAF, I joined in 1976👍
Thank you so much for sharing this , To see the convertibles at saugus , It just warms my heart , When I was a kid I went to 605 speedway. Saw a lot of the same convertibles , Thank you take care
Thank you I helped Carl Rouse with LSD car that a 57 Chevy red and when I better days off Carl and hippie would get the 11 s car ready and loaded for Saugus I also worked for U S Borax remember Borax Handcleaner I was giving large cans of that away plus giving it away as an award for the trophy dash
Great memories of Saugus and Ontario
Couldn't finish the video. Never, never, NEVER play music while aircraft are flying! Don't you understand that the aircraft furnish their own music! Please do better, in the future. BTW, the aerial photography was very good for 1995. Semper Fi, TreeTop
We went to a air show in Harlingen Texas when I was 7 like in 1977❤
Where did your F-38 come from? Fairchild Aearo Surveys?
Actually was named the Confederate Airforce... pre yankee invasion wokeness.
What Texas city , town or burg do you hail from stranger? Friendly Real Texan here!
When I was a San Marcos college kid in the mid-70s - if I'm not mistaken - The CAF was the "Confederate Air Force". Lots of really cool historical planes, but I always thought the "Confederate" part of the name was kinda weird. At any rate, it's good to hear the group is still kicking. Cheers!
Thx Jim, what camera/ format did you record this with. Very few people have been able to record this experience from the Lightning’s cockpit. Wasn’t the Kid involved in some kind of multifaceted trade including the F-82?
I used a Canon Hi8 L2 video camera. It was state-of-the-art at the time in 1993-4. The video was taken from the radar operators position behind the pilot and in the path finder plex nose. It was quite a thrill to fly in the P-38, especially in nose...better than IMAX!! The P-38 was a combined J, L and M model with a night fighter canopy and a path finder nose. We had a fighter nose made for it but it crashed before we were able to replace it. I believe it may have been the only three place P-38 ever made.
Was this aircraft originally owned by Fairchild Aerosurveys located in Burbank, California?
The CAF purchase the P-38 from Gary Levitz. I was not the P-38 he highly modified for the Reno Air Races. I don't know who owned it before Levitz.
Very good one. I had the brilliant idea to interview my dad about his time as a Radio Operator in B-24s based at Rackheath, Norfolk-467thBG-way back in 1999. Too bad that I can't find the tape after this one: ruclips.net/video/I37hwR1cd5o/видео.htmlsi=UlyKZG4Q6lP9wqvk&t=2028 which starts in the middle because before that is irrelevant. I'm also writing a bio of him in WWII except it's done in a weird narrative style that just appeared one day and seems to write itself. You can see what I've done so far at japanesewithkamakiri.blogspot.com which is an old blog I had, and where I'm posting the story. My dad died in 2009 and pretty soon ain't gonna be nobody to tell these tales. Good on you for making it. They were all uncomplaining heroes.
It was great of Jim Lux to make this video, and it is very well done and well organized, with much original footage. The concludion, though, says "The purpose of this video is to shed light on the gallant crew of B-24 Liberator Hot Stuff and their heroic accomplishments, and to revive the legacy of a great American leader, Frank M. Andrews." I wish he added "and the other 8 passengers who were almost randomly killed while serving their country." In 1942, passenger Col. Morrow Krum, born in 1896, was 46 years old, well over the uppper draft age limit of 39. He was wealthy, lived in beautiful Lake Forest, Illinois, north of Chicago, and worked in advertising in Chicago, covering Studebaker and Bendix Aviation located in South Bend, Indiana. He was good friends with my grandfather. They played bridge together, and my grandmother's photo album has eight photos of Morrow. In 1942, my grandfather, John R. Howland, born in 1901, was 41, and also over the draft age. He worked at Zenith Radio in Chicago as assistant to its president, Commander McDonald. Morrow Krum and my grandfather both decided, perhaps together, or independently, to volunteer for the service. My grandfather became Executive Officer, right-hand-man to the commanding officer, of the Signal Corps in England. The death of his friend Morrow must have been very sad. The other seven passengers also no-doubt had loved ones who should be remembered. This video also leaves out that they received a warning to turn back to Great Britain due to bad weather, but replied "Continuing" and ignored the warning. The B-24 had a 1600 mile range, and LHR to KEF is 1200 miles, so they probably had fuel left. Cruise speed is 160 MPH, say 150 MPH with a small headwind, so an 8 hour flight, and they gain 3 hours in time zones, so 5 hours on the clock. If they took of at 9 a.m., they were over Reykjavik at 2 p.m. local time, and sunset May 3 was 10 p.m.. They had probably had 3 hours of fuel left and 8 hours of daylight. It seems they should have climbed up into the blue and circled for a few hours. But maybe it was worsening, not going to blow over. Separately, it has always amazed me that bombers have nose art that makes one think of the act of creating life while their mission is, in addition to damaging military installations, to kill and end life. If Hot Stuff had gone on he war bond drive, the erotic image may have appalled a lot of people. But still, great video. Thanks.
Thank you for the nice comments about "A Story of Triumph and Tragedy." The video was made in 2013 shortly after I visited the crash site in Iceland. The monument dedication was added to the video in 2018. I learned of the story of "Hot Stuff" from my late friend "Jake" Jacobson who was the bombardier. I had always thought the B-17 "Memphis Belle" was the first heavy bomber in the 8th Air Force to complete 25 missions so, when I learned "Hot Stuff" was first, I decided to try to correct the error and get proper recognition for "Hot Stuff" and her crew. I did a considerable amount of research (which I continue to do) and it took more than a year to correctly identify the passenger who were onboard "Hot Stuff" when it crashed. I made the video after I learned who was onboard. I didn’t know much about many of the passengers until after the video was made. Since that time, I have contacted family members of everyone who was onboard with the exception of Capt. Joseph Johnson, Gen. Andrews Aide. My wife and I did visit his grave in Culver City, CA. Most of the family members I contacted knew little or nothing about what happened other than they knew a member of their family died in the War. The monument in Iceland is dedicated to all who were onboard “Hot Stuff”. Facing the monument, the left front side identifies “Hot Stuff” for being the first to complete 25 missions. There are photographs of “Hot Stuff” and the crew and a list of their names. The left side has a photo of Andrews and a list of the passengers including Morro Krum. More than 100 family members attended the monument dedication in 2018. The monument was relocated in 2021 because the highway close by was widened and a center divider was added preventing easy access to the monument. The reason given for not providing an opening was there had been many accidents along the highway due to increased tourist traffic. Fortunately, the move saved the monument from the recent volcanic eruptions currently taking place nearby the old location. There are now displays with pieces of wreckage and the story of “Hot Stuff” in the National Museum of the United States Air Force and at Joint Base Andrews. Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to watch the video.
My mother (Ruth Keller) went through pilot training with Kristin Swan. They were such good friends that she named me after her. What a joy to find this interview!
Kristin was a wonderful friend and an amazing lady. Some of her memorabilia is in the WASP Museum in Sweetwater, TX.
God bless these men and all those that fought and gave all so that we can live free from tyranny.
God how I miss those days, rode in the pace car one night with James Garner ...the Saugus 330's were awesome !!!