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| Posted by: C-2 January 21, 2004 09:23 pm |
| I heard today a story about Bazu;
At every airfield that Bazu was in ,he arrived with a pair of biciclet and a blonde girl(a diferent one each time).Those two used to arrived some time before Bazu,and then everyone knew that the prince is coming soon.. Another fact is that Bazu (perhaps because the loud sound of the engines) could not hear well.Thats why, while speaking on the phone,you could hear him from miles.. 
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| Posted by: Indrid January 21, 2004 09:34 pm |
| and who is this Bazu? excuse the ignorance :keep: |
| Posted by: C-2 January 21, 2004 09:40 pm |
| Bazu Cantacuzino
The top ARR ace of WW2 you should look on ARR.go.ro...... |
| Posted by: Indrid January 23, 2004 04:22 pm |
| right, thanks. |
| Posted by: Alexandru H. January 23, 2004 06:33 pm |
Yes, indeed, our greatest ace...and not very praised by the communists because of his nobiliar blood  |
| Posted by: C-2 January 23, 2004 08:40 pm |
To those who are old ....  and had seen the soap opera Dallas,
Linda Grey(JR's wife) was the dauther of an ex wife of Bazu. From all the vet pilots I met,there was no one who said a bad word about him. |
| Posted by: Indrid January 23, 2004 08:44 pm |
| a ladies man without enemies? he must have been quite a guy |
| Posted by: C-2 January 23, 2004 08:56 pm |
| At least no enemies in the airforce........ |
| Posted by: Bernard Miclescu January 24, 2004 10:36 am |
| Last summer i saw the memoirs of Maria Rossetti-Enescu (Bâzu's mother) ; it's a bilanguage book (french/romanian) and it seems that there are only 1000 edited. I think that there were edited at Bacau, but i do not know more about it.
If You know something more about this book (where I think it is possible to find some inedit informations about Bazu); please do not hesitate to contact me. Yours, BM |
| Posted by: Alexandru H. January 24, 2004 12:41 pm |
| Bacau? My home town is indeed a cultural Mecca 8) |
| Posted by: Bernard Miclescu January 24, 2004 04:21 pm |
| my origins are from Bacau too. Alexandru,please, ask to the Ateneu if they know something about the book. If not to the Glissando library, thow i'm not shure that it was commercialised. Or maybe some examples could be found at Tescani?
Nice knowing you Alexandru, next time i'll come to homeland i'll contact you. Yours, BM |
| Posted by: Florin January 24, 2004 04:22 pm |
| [quote].....
At every airfield that Bazu was in ,he arrived with a pair of biciclet and a blonde girl(a diferent one each time)......[/quote] If his family name is not a coincidence, he belonged to one of the most famous aristocratic Romanian families. He could afford a different blonde girl each time... For Indrid: I saw you are fond of German stuff: heroes and equipment. After August 23 Bazu arrived to the American airport in Italy where he handled the message from the new Romanian government. He landed in a Me-109. The American pilots were very eager to test in flight his Me-109. One of them took it for a trial, but he could not lift before the end of the runway, and he damaged the plane. As Bazu had to return to Romania, they gave him an American fighter plane. Even though it was for the first time in his life when Bazu had the chance to pilot that type, he took off, then he made some acrobatics, just for show, then continued to Romania. |
| Posted by: mabadesc January 24, 2004 04:28 pm |
| C-2 said:
[quote]From all the vet pilots I met,there was no one who said a bad word about him.[/quote] You actually met some WWII pilots? That's great.....any well-known ones? [quote]At every airfield that Bazu was in ,he arrived with a pair of biciclet and a blonde girl(a diferent one each time).[/quote] I think this is due more to his being a fighter pilot, rather than being a prince. For some reason, in every part of the world, women go crazy after fighter/test/recon pilots...  |
| Posted by: Bernard Miclescu January 24, 2004 04:50 pm |
| [quote]I think this is due more to his being a fighter pilot, rather than being a prince. For some reason, in every part of the world, women go crazy after fighter/test/recon pilots... [/quote]
He was an atletic and hansom (if permitted ) man and I think also that it was Bazu's personality to be a women lover.Also he had a passion for the roulette game....
BM |
| Posted by: Alexandru H. January 24, 2004 04:55 pm |
| [quote]my origins are from Bacau too. Alexandru,please, ask to the Ateneu if they know something about the book. If not to the Glissando library, thow i'm not shure that it was commercialised. Or maybe some examples could be found at Tescani?
Nice knowing you Alexandru, next time i'll come to homeland i'll contact you. Yours, BM[/quote] Ok, I'll try to find it. It seems interesting and pretty rare. I know very well the Glissando crew (been one of their best client in high-school) and perhaps they know something about that book. Maybe the History Museum might hold the book, seeing that it's quite on their own alley... This after February 4, when I end all the exams... Bacau rules! Did I tell you about the future Anarchist Moldavia, with Bacau as its capital? :drunk: |
| Posted by: Bernard Miclescu January 24, 2004 05:08 pm |
| [quote]Maybe the History Museum might hold the book, seeing that it's quite on their own alley...
This after February 4, when I end all the exams...[/quote] Yes you're wright for the museum, I forgot it. Till feb 4 good luck for the exams or in french: "merde"
[quote]Bacau rules! Did I tell you about the future Anarchist Moldavia, with Bacau as its capital? :drunk:[/quote] Nope, what's that Anarchist Moldavia??? Yours, BM |
| Posted by: Indrid January 24, 2004 05:39 pm |
| "Anarchist Moldavia" is a dear dream of Alexandru. next to Angelina Jolie and Shakira , anarchist moldavia is very important to him. i told him that" Anarchist Capital" doesn`t make sense but he wouldn't listen. he is so sometimes
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :keep: |
| Posted by: Alexandru H. January 24, 2004 06:11 pm |
| [quote]"Anarchist Moldavia" is a dear dream of Alexandru. next to Angelina Jolie and Shakira , anarchist moldavia is very important to him. i told him that" Anarchist Capital" doesn`t make sense but he wouldn't listen. he is so sometimes [/quote]
Heh! A wannabe demigod needs a place for his shadow council, even in an anarchist world!!! And Angelina Jolie has enough muscle power to help me win that place! |
| Posted by: C-2 January 24, 2004 08:27 pm |
| .[/quote
You actually met some WWII pilots? That's great.....any well-known ones? I think this is due more to his being a fighter pilot, rather than being a prince. For some reason, in every part of the world, women go crazy after fighter/test/recon pilots... [/quote]
I see that Indrid is not the only one who didn't read the pilots and interv. sections at www.arr.go.ro.. :twisted: Yes Me and Victor are meeting as many vets pilots as we posibly can. Unfortunatly we live far from each other and have great dific. in coordinating those meetings.Unfortunatly I sometimes go by myself. :roll: In short time you'll be able to read about Costin Georgescu and his amazing story. About Bazu,because of his too "joyful"life :beer: :cheers: he died young from liver Chirossis and ulcuss :cry: |
| Posted by: mabadesc January 25, 2004 03:59 am |
| [quote]I see that Indrid is not the only one who didn't read the pilots and interv.
sections at www.arr.go.ro.. [/quote] Guilty as charged, I'm embarrassed to say.... :oops: [quote]Yes Me and Victor are meeting as many vets pilots as we posibly can.[/quote] I think that's great! Last time I was in Romania, I thought about placing an ad in a newspaper, searching for WWII vets (infantry/mountain) who would agree to meet with me and answer a few questions..... But I gave up on the thought because I wasn't there long enough. Perhaps I'll do it when I come to Romania next time.....I couldn't think of any other way of meeting war veterans. |
| Posted by: C-2 January 25, 2004 08:36 pm |
| You'll be here soon,and it's easy to find them.Go to a "pliclinica "and look for old guys with the vets insigna.!
Be polite don't be agresive ask some questions,and if his nice ask for a phone nr. It's like meeting with a girl... Sometimes is easy ,sometimes not.. Until I was welcome to Dicesare's house,it took me a few months about 20 phones and 3-4 meetings at "Liga Aeriana"... Between us,if it was a girls,I would't wait so much :mrgreen: :mrgreen: |
| Posted by: Victor January 26, 2004 10:25 am | ||
Well, don't blame mabadesc for this, because, except for dragos and me, nobody else knows your real name. :wink: If you remember, you even protested when I used it in a thread some while ago. So it is not his fault he did not know your exploits. It is yours. |
| Posted by: Bernard Miclescu February 28, 2004 05:49 pm |
| A big and interesting article about Bazu's was published in two numbers (I don't remember the no exactly) in the French Airmag magazine. Also four interesting photos with Bazu in Spain near his Bu 131 (or 133 ?).
If interested i can scan it. Yours, BM |
| Posted by: Detvan July 08, 2016 08:37 am |
| Hello, I have one question: Was Bazu playing tennis only in free time, or porfessional for some tennis team too? Regards, Detvan. |
| Posted by: Florin July 09, 2016 06:09 am |
| It is sad that like many other smart and bright Romanians, Bâzu had to spend the last part of his life among foreigners, and eventually he died on foreign land. |