Short Final: 'After You!'
In the early 1980s, when I was an admissions recruiter for East Coast Aero Technical School (now part of the National Aviation Academy network) at ...
In the early 1980s, when I was an admissions recruiter for East Coast Aero Technical School (now part of the National Aviation Academy network) at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, I was on my way to nearby Beverly Airport to represent ECAT at an Aviation Day event. On the seat next to me in the Cessna 150 was a cutaway cylinder from a Pratt & Whitney R2800 radial, which made for an eye-catching booth display, the better to attract applicants to ECAT's A&P program. As I was cleared to take off, I saw Bob Ferguson starting to taxi out in his recently acquired F4U Corsair warbird—complete with all 18 real-world cylinders of its R2800.