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Upside-down Duane Cole

Thankfully, in the late 1970s, early ‘80s, if I wasn’t flying charter trips in early October, I was hanging out at the annual CAF Airshow, drooling over the old warbirds, listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford emcee the show, and cozying up to some of the famed aviators who dropped by: Chuck Yeager, “Pappy” Boyington, to name but a few.The two best aerobatic acts were performed by Lefty, flying his P-38 high above the crowd, doing barrel rolls with one engine feathered (rolling into the dead engine, no less), and Duane Cole, the crazy guy who flew his Taylorcraft upside down ...

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