Over the next few months, I hope to publish a great deal more about Frank, but until then, please enjoy this classic picture of N87P while it used a 200 HP Lycoming O-360 engine.
John Price shared this memory of his father's flying:
"My father would fly the airplane with minimum fuel as possible to stay as light as possible for vertical performance. The flop line in the fuel tank would get air and the engine would quit often during tail slides. If he was high enough he would dive vertically(160-200 MPH) and restart the engine. If he was to low he would dead stick down and land on the grass strip. I saw him do this many times and never once do I remember having to push the airplane to where I was sitting or standing. He always rolled right to where I was standing. I really considered this to be routine until I became a pilot a few years later then I realized how difficult this was and how easy he made it look !! "