`THE PLANE AT THE AIR SHOW WAS THE VERY PLANE HE HAD SOLOED IN'; SERENDIPITY TRANSPORTS AVIATOR BACK IN TIME.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
How's this for the perfect birthday gift that money can't buy? A trip down memory lane. Way down - 54 years. Verne Disney Jr. of Northridge was an 18-year-old kid back in 1943 when he took his first solo flight The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. at Eagle Field in Dos Palos, Calif., as part of his primary training to become an Air Force pilot in World War II. The day, like the plane - a Stearman biplane biplane, aircraft, typically of early design, having two sets of wings fixed at different levels, especially in a vertical stack with the fuselage included between them. See airplane. - is etched etch v. etched, etch·ing, etch·es v.tr. 1. a. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid. b. in his memory forever. So it wasn't surprising when his eye was drawn to the red Stearman on display at the Van Nuys Air Show recently. On a hunch hunch n. 1. An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose. 2. A hump. 3. A lump or chunk: "She . . . , Verne asked the plane's owner, Bertie Duffy, if he could see the serial number on the frame. She said sure. ``As is his custom, Dad copied the number onto his hand for lack of paper, took her business card, and went about his way,'' said Celes Miller of Calabasas, one of Verne's five children. ``When he got home, Dad checked the serial number on his hand against the one in his log book, which he had kept all these years,'' she said. ``The plane at the air show was the very plane he had soloed in 54 years earlier. ``While Dad was in the shower last week, my mom took the business card from his wallet See digital wallet. , and I called Bertie, who said she would be thrilled to take my father for a flight in her plane,'' Celes said. So, on Verne Disney's 72nd birthday last week, his wife, Rose Marie This article is about the actress. For other persons of the same name, see Rose Marie (disambiguation). Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an actress who had a career as a child star under the name Baby Rose Marie , and his five children gathered around, and handed him an envelope with an airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. painted on the outside. ``What's this?'' he asked. ``Read the card,'' his children replied. Verne read the first line, then stopped. ``Like most men of my dad's generation, he has difficulty showing emotion,'' Celes said. ``He couldn't read anymore. His lips were quivering.'' Who can blame him? It's not every day that a 72-year-old man gets an invitation on his birthday to be transported back 54 years to his days as a cocky cock·y adj. cock·i·er, cock·i·est Overly self-assertive or self-confident. cock  i·ly adv. fighter pilot with his entire life ahead of him.
``I've got a feeling a lot of emotions are going to be flowing through me when I climb into the cockpit This article is about the flight deck of an aircraft. For other uses, see Cockpit (disambiguation). A cockpit is the area usually nearer the front of a piloted aircraft from which a pilot controls the aircraft. of that old plane,'' Verne said Thursday. I've got a feeling he's right. Some people write a check to charity, others donate a little of their time to a worthy cause. But how many people have moved out of their home for six months to benefit one? Since June, Frank and Alicia Barbarino of Westlake Village have been living in a 900-square-foot apartment a few miles down the hill from their 10,000-square-foot Mediterranean luxury estate. They moved out of the Villa Montagna in upper North Ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. so it could be renovated, redesigned and opened for public tours beginning this weekend as the 1997 Design Showcase House. All proceeds from the public tours will go to benefit the Wellness Community for the Valley/Ventura area, an organization helping cancer patients and their families. ``You talk about people with a big heart, this couple has the biggest,'' says Jodi Sissons, a friend of the Barbarinos who met the couple in one of the many charitable causes they have been involved in over the years. ``They get to move out of their home for six months and pay for a renovation they didn't want or need, just so the Wellness Community would benefit,'' Sissons says. Alicia Barbarino laughs when she hears these words. It's true that she and Frank, who owns FB Productions, a Chatsworth printing firm, didn't need their home renovated, but now that the redesign re·de·sign tr.v. re·de·signed, re·de·sign·ing, re·de·signs To make a revision in the appearance or function of. re is completed, they are both very happy with it because ``they did an incredible job,'' she says. In November, they get to move back in. ``We've lived in that house for four years, and to now be living together in a small apartment, well, it certainly helps two people stay in touch with each other,'' Alicia laughs. ``It's all worth it, though,'' she adds. ``Opening our home to the public and having to move out for six months is a small price to pay to help the Wellness Community carry on the great work it does for cancer patients and their families in the Valley and Ventura.'' Jodi's right. These people do have a big heart. Tickets for the Villa Montagna tour, which runs from Sunday though Oct. 14, can be purchased through Ticketmaster. For more information call (805) 777-1016. |
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