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My Dad wrote a letter home from Grafton-Underwood in 1943 mentioning a film crew shooting a documentary. He didn't want anything to do with it because they re-named "a perfectly good B-17" ... I'm not making this up... "The Quilting Bee" Do any of you know what the documentary was and if copies may ...

Nice!

Always humbling to see what a REAL bad day at the office looked like back then.

dp

In the course od trying to make TEXAS RAIDERS more presentable we started painting the tail feathers red. We had a debate, but I insisted that we go no shinier than a satin sheen on the red. Next up we need to paint the black triangle and then all the white numbers and the big 381st L. But here is w...

From the bombardier's seat.
Apologies for the roughness, but I think B17 Lovers will like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmofDiWZLY

SPANNER

Oct. 14, 1943- Black Thursday for the USAAF - The second Schweinfurt Raid.

Oct. 14, 2009 - First Flight in seven years for TEXAS RAIDERS-
Commemorative Air Force- Gulf Coast Wing.

Kind of busy here, but I thought you might like to know!

Thanks EVERYBODY who helped over the years.

SPANNER

With due respect to the work that goes on in this site, Here is an AERO VINTAGE scoop. (Maybe some will consider this merely a teaser but be that as it may... Anyone who has ever worked on a restoration project knows how exciting it is to write the following.) The exact date has NOT been set, no nam...

Being kind of distracted lately it has taken me some time to really get personal with my copy of the latest edition of FINAL CUT. I had read the second edition and when my 3rd Ed. arrived I just read the stories of the better known (to me) B17s in the warbird scene. The things that caused me to post...

Lucky...
email me with the formula for that paint if you would please.
Either that or mix me a can with enough for another TW assembley.

TEXAS RAIDERS tailwheel is in turd-mucklety-green and I am betting you have the correct shade.

SPANNER

Hang the Expense... Here are the pics of the chin turret. I figured what the hey? Let EVERYBODY see them! http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/SPANNERmkV/chin4.jpg Spot welded nut plates http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/SPANNERmkV/chin3.jpg The problem is this is NOT the only problem area on...

Absolutely gorgeous Lucky 13!

PS Can I come have breakfast off your floors?

SPANNER

Two Saturdays ago we got the Left Wing Extension on and we hope to hang the Right one this Saturday.

If we keep this up we are going to need a wide angle lens...
But THAT'S OK!

Chris,
Thanks for posting.
I love the conveyor belt with the tiny bundles of bills.
IF only they had had CGI back then.
If only we had Raquel Welch NOW!
As cool as the BIGGEST BUNDLE looks I simply have to find A MAN CALLED DAGGER! Wow!

While I believe Devil Dog may be a PBwannabe I am happy for her CAF Sqdn. in that she has been flown home to Georgetown and is no longer at Midland... Not that there is ANYTHING wrong with Midland (to borrow a line from Seinfeld...

Hooooah!

Ray Rocks!!!

That looks top notch.

I just primered over a lot of the same territory you are working on there.
Man I wish TEXAS RAIDERS was still nice shiny NEW metal.

Are you going to paint your bomb-bay or leave it au natural?

SPANNER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcq4SUETpTA

Version 2 of the TAXI Test with footage from outside the plane.

I hope it is worth the watch!

SPANNER