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Author: Subject: Where is he now?: Capt. Francisco Muñoz
David K
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[*] posted on 3-7-2013 at 10:40 AM


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Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
Great Photos and Info!!

Does anyone have any information about the "Shark Livers" airstrips and who was doing the flying??

Many times I would land at a small airstrip and talk to some of the People who ask me if I wanted :Livers"

All so looking for Photos of the B25 that Tabor started flying inot Loreto.
Flew one time with Capt. Munoz on one of his DC3's He was the Biset Pilot I have ever met!!
And he loved the ladies!!
When I built Ranchos sonrisa in Loreto Virginia and I wnet up to San Nichols to a place that Gardner had talked about and got some beautifull Rocks to use in our Palapa..

Many of the people would talk about Capt. Munoz and when he had landed on the Beaches.

Great Stories!

SKeet/Loreto


Found this for you Skeet:

"I walked to that strip and saw a nice B-25 bomber laying there crippled in the sand. I took the care to pull the props through thinking that someone would surely be saving these valuable airplanes (there were two). In 1985 when I flew some fishermen into Loreto I walked to where the strip was and found instead of the airplanes, a new El Presidente Hotel. I asked one of the locals as to what happened to the airplanes and got the sign language of the use being made with a chainsaw. I cried!"

This is from this web site on old Baja flying memories:


http://bannerbob.net/flying_trips_into_mexico.htm




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[*] posted on 3-22-2019 at 01:52 AM


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[*] posted on 3-27-2019 at 07:21 AM


Thanks Mike... We have not heard from Skeet here on Nomad for three years now (last post was March 26, 2015). I get a sad feeling when older Nomads stop posting.
I have communicated with Marian Johns, Neal's wife. Neal has stopped using the computer she tells me, at least to post or email. He has been a wealth of knowledge and our favorite 'aridologist' on Nomad and Amigos de Baja before.
The worst part about getting older is seeing your friends leave this world for the other.
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[*] posted on 3-27-2019 at 03:32 PM


I guess I am going through that to Dave.
I am grieving the lose of the old runways and the way it was.
That is why I am urgent to get flying in Baja again and see if I can still get the feel and taste of it back... if any still exists.
I think it still does... and we need to keep it going...
Read the old posts and try to remember and dream...




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