Originally Posted by Speedbird48
We taxied to a hangar on the South side where a guy by the name of Bazil Maile operated a flying club with Taylorcrafts/Austers. We collected the prop' and departed with it sticking out of the top!!!
I met Basil Maile in Washington DC (actually somewhere in Maryland, I think) around 1982 when he was working for AOPA USA. He very kindly put me in touch with Pitts and AT-6 operators as I wanted to get some time on those types. He and his wife invited me round for dinner one night and he lent me one of his cars for the rest of my stay in DC. (A Hillman Minx if memory serves - he had a garage full of British cars!)
Sorry for the thread drift...