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The Globe Temco Swift News
The World of the Swift for...
 July
2008
Volume 13
Number 6
Thanks
to Swifters Travis Foss, Lonnie Autry, Tom Palmer, Roger Cain, Don Duke,
Dan Harper, Jamie Colvin, David Garcia and Allan Erickson for their contributions to this issue.
THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!!!
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California Swifter Travis
Foss sent in the awesome pics above and below and writes...
"A couple of weeks ago I was up at Frazier Lake and had the honor of flying Lonnie Autry's swift for some photos. The really neat thing is Lonnie's Swift is N80819 and my buddy Tom Palmer's Swift is N80820! How often do you get to see Sister Swift's together??
The photos were taken by Roger Cain.
Just thought they would be fun to share." |
THE WORLD OF "THE
SWIFT"...
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From Ohio Swifter Dr. Don
Duke...
Nice scan of the Globe Aircraft Corp. "The Swift"
globe that was common from the factory on cowl
and/or wheel covers. |
MORE 2008 SWIFT NATS PICS 
Say
"...better late than never..." in his email, Swifter Dan Harper has
posted
some of the pics he took at Swift National 2008.
Go to:
http://web.mac.com/daltonharper/iWeb/Swift/Nationals%202008.html
SOUTH OF THE BORDER...
CC-PHH put to bed for the nite
somewhere in Chile.
South American Swifter Jaime Colvin 210hp Super Custom Swift from Santiago,
Chile.
For more go to:
http://todalaaviacion.blogspot.com/2008/04/cc-phh-temco-swift-gc-1b-en-mendoza.html
and to...
http://ivansiminic.blogspot.com/2007/05/joyita-en-tobalaba.html
...for pics of Jamie's Swift in the
daytime.
EL PASO IN '76
From
the photo album website "flckr.com" this black & white pic was
taken by
a gent who calls himself "thevid". His caption to this pic reads...
"Globe Aircraft Company Swift at the T-Hangers located at the El Paso
Tx International airport.
September 1976. Taken with my first 35mm camera, a Minolta SRT-202 with normal
lens."
To see more of "thevid's"
fine work go to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_o_garcia/
FROM THE ERICKSON COLLECTION...
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So-Cal Swifter Allan
Erickson provides this VERY early ad from Globe AircraftCorp.
The interesting deal here is how much this artist's conception looks
like the "Johnson Rocket" prototype
that is now 99.99% believed to be the Globe Swift prototype.
(Wonder what they mean by, "...Wide Awake Dealers...") |
BACK IN THE DAY... SWIFT FIRST
FLIGHT?
From
the Allan Erickson collection. Pic is not dated. Script at bottom reads...
"First flight of the Globe Swift over grain field RS Johnson
Pilot"
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