How did you come to fly airshows in Great Britain?
Kulp: I went over there in ’89, ’90, and ’91. There was a duke who had an estate in Badminton, England. The duke had a big estate and had his own private airfield. One of his caretakers was an ex-RAF pilot and a parachute jumper, and the duke let his caretaker start a parachute club there on the field. And that evolved into a show. He had a big fox hunt once a year, and that would bring in thousands of people in the spring. They started having this airshow in June or July and that brought in thousands of people. A&S: How did you make the connection with the duke? Kulp: One of the airshow pilots came over to the Flying Circus to look at an airplane one of our guys was selling. And he saw my act. He asked me if I would be interested in coming to England. About a year later—he had contacted the ex-RAF pilot at the duke’s place—I went over to do a show. I got to know some of the airshow pilots and we hit it off pretty good. A&S: Did it feel different, flying another pilot’s Cub from the wa
