edbooth wrote:I really hate to attach this pix, but may be most folks will think it's a modified "Red" 170.
The give away that it's not is Red 170's don't go that fast. Obviously you had a Green 170 out in front as the camera platform for the second shot.
It's good that cell-phones have improved shutter-speeds these days, or that greeen camera-ship would have only caught a bluuurrrrr ... it was passed-by so quickly.
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention. An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
Okay. I'll play. Here is N2542C on a recent trip to KHAB, Marion County Alabama.
Hamilton Alabama in Marion County is only about 50 miles from home base but an airport I had never landed. They had this really neat old tower there. I was going to climb up it to get a picture but they took the first set of stairs down. There was also a great number of wasps near the beacon as well.
It is real, I've seen it at Oshkosh, where that photo was probably taken.
John Renwick
Minneapolis, MN
Former owner, '55 C-170B, N4401B
'42 J-3 Cub, N62088
'50 Swift GC-1B, N2431B, Oshkosh 2009 Outstanding Swift Award, 2016 Best Continuously Maintained Swift
I have had that pic in one of my computers from years back. And John you are right it seems to me like was at OSH back in the late '80s. I don't think anyone flew there with that mess hanging on it. At that time I thought the only way it could fly was with an IO360 engine conversion! !
OLE GAR SEZ - 4 Boats, 4 Planes, 4 houses. I've got to quit collecting!
Here's a few photos of a recent day of flying with my family. We spent the morning at the Beach, then flew off to a Vintage Aircraft gathering in the afternoon.
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, but why it always that the red one seems to be lagging behind. 
