Aaah shoot, you should have let the old guy have his way. Now if you could have found a Corsair, with it's .50s still installed, somewhere for him to do the deed with.... that would have been sweet.
The old guy has always been known for building PITTS stunt planes in his garage and flying them....all that dogfighting made him a pretty big hit at some of the air shows some time back. The last plane he built from a kit was a HALF SIZED CORSAIR and he had hard points with the ability to remote mount AR15s and fire them from the cockpit. It had about an 800HP motor and was just too much for him. He wrecked it trying to grease it in on a grass field at too much speed. He wasn't hurt....but the plane was a mess.
To give him his full due: This man is so smart...he's an engineer and has a Ph.d in Nuclear Physics...used to run a nuke power plant before being retired as a senior VP for a power company....