The Macone family in 1907 at Strawberry Hill.
Alessandro is 2^nd from the left. Maria is in the center in the black shirt.

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The Story of the Macone's Immigration!

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The Macone family on the sad day of Alessandro’s funeral. 
Top row, left to right: Mary and her husband, “Musty” Augustus, Margaret. 
Middle row: Anthony and Joseph, Mother Maria, and Augustine. 
Front row: Joseph, John, Teresa, Frank, Nicholas and his wife Margaret. 

Margot

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The Macone Family by Generation

Their Children (Born in Italy)

Their Children (Born in USA)

Anthony

1884-1984

Margaret

1886-1962

Frank

1887-1959

Salvatore

1891-1950

John

1892-1989

Teresa

1893-

Augustine

1895-

Joseph

 

Winged Macones

The 280^th Aero Squadron in Waco, Texas, 1917
Can you spot John Macone?

John Macone Sr. after a check ride in his bi-wing crate. “The hell with flying. I’ll never get in one of these things again!"	John Macone – Crew Chief of this Curtis Jenny JN4 trainer.

John climbing into a B-17G. The plane we used was a B17G ( without the chin turret or gun) The instrumentation for weather features, droplet size, density , snowflake form etc. was recorded on old "old" instrumentation in the plane synoptically with "test" primitive cathod displays on the ground. This was the development of the first ground weather radar. We had an Air Force crew and there were two of us civilians (MIT) to handle the weather radar stuff. Of course this was all analog stuff in the plane and it was before the advent or use of any solid state etc. My time with the project was while waiting to be activated (Reserve AF) in 1950 or 51. Plane naturally, belonged to the AF.

Bob Macone (left) commanding the Hanscom Tower in Bedford. Notice the Goodyear Blimp on the runway. Macone:"Where the hell is he going?"	A B-24 owned by Col. Collings – the plane on which Rich and his son Jim rebuilt all four turbines.

"OLD 815" Actual in air shot of Bob Macone's plane in WW 2, with Bob in the left seat. He ditched this bird in heavy seas with 19 men on board and got all of them out safely with him being the last man through the hatch. All this with an enjured leg sustained in the crash. Then their rafts got them to an island in the China sea where they were eventually rescued by an Air Force PBY amphibian

Bob's C47.

Jim and Richard repaired the forward machine guns on this B-17 for Col. Collings.	A plant producing B-24 bombers in WWII.

The belly turret of a B-24 bomber. This is where Peanut worked as an instructor at gunnery school.	One of the turbines restored by Rich and JIm.

Richard as a cadet.
	Richard and crew.

	John Macone with Najib Halaby, a frequent flyer at Sugabush "Intenational " Airport in Warren Vermont.  Halaby is the former head of the FAA and President of Pan American World Airways.  He is the father of Queen Noor of Jordan.  Macone built Sugarbush Field which became a mecca to soar-plane pilots like Halaby.  John's sons, Pete and Duzie both soloed at age 14.
Captains Lillibeck, Blair, Callahan and Macone prepare to fly the Catalina (PBY) out of St. Croix. John is in the foreground.

	Sam Macone with “Firefly”. “I don't think it can hover or fly backwards”.
John with Skitch Henderson and Jim Sheppard, FAA. Skitch flew Spitfires (shown) for the USAF during WWII. John has just brought the plane down from Canada with Jim Sheppard (right) At the time, Macone was currator of the Owl's Head Museum in Maine.

Bobby and Son standing before AT6 in hanger. The AT6 "Texan" was the primary training aircraft of WWII.

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In Service to America

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Call for Photos & Stories!!

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2009 Reunion Featuring Lavorgna!

Here are a couple of photos from last year’s reunion. Stay tuned…

Macone Mug Shots!

Can you identify these Macones? Bring your answers to the reunion.

		Recognize this Macone? He's number 20!
Recognize this one? Number 21.		What about this one? The gorgeous number 22! Click here for the gory story of the bloody head!!