Aero Vintage Books

While bulkheads 4 & 5 are critical, bulkhead 3 and the flight deck are difficult to construct. We pretty much got the assembly sequence right, and we still went through a lot of metal making custom bucking bars, along with using just about every offset rivet set in Tom's collection. Lots of small pa...

Bulkhead diagram (low quality scan) from the Structual Repair Manual: http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn147/cgiese0001/Labrador%20B-17/Bulkheads.jpg Bulkhead 1 is where the nose glass attaches Bulkhead 2 divides the bombardier and navigator section of the nose (Pre G model) Bulkhead 3 is the door...

Bulkhead 3 is a combination of the Labrador B-17 and new build parts.

I don't know of an online diagram, but I'll look for one in the blueprints. I've even seen logbooks that refer to them incorrectly.

Dave wrote:Chuck,
How much of Liberty Belle are you using in this, or is everything from 790 so far?
Great work

Dave

Everything is from either the Labrador B-17 or blueprints. Nothing from Liberty Belle has been used.

Chuck

KnockoutDropper wrote:
On a side note - I always thought this was going to be rebuilt as a B-17F? Not the case, obviously. No worries...you can never have too many B-17Gs around! Looking great!

When we reached a point where we had to commit to a F or G nose, the boss said to make it a G.

Chuck

One more shot of the nose, window frames are in place, just waiting on the cheek windows to rivet it together.



Chuck

I'm waaay overdue on posting pictures of the Labrador (Dyke Lake) B-17. We've been working from bulkhead3 back towards the Bomb Bay, and forward to the nose. Here's a taste of the current state of the restoration: http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn147/cgiese0001/Labrador%20B-17/DSC01885.jpg http:...

I think we had two or three copies of the previous edition left. Just pick the latest one out of the rack - it will be hiding behind edition 3. Cash, check or credit cards - yes. Not sure about paypal - best to ask Scott. As of now, I'm not on the schedule for at least the next two months so I won't...

Oh yeah, we're selling it. There are a couple of people behind the table who have made an art out of turning questions about the history of the B-17 and how many are flying into sales of the book. It also becomes a good way to get pilot's autographs :wink: Seriously - most of the more 'interesting' ...

Yeah, I always thought it was a silly argument, until last weekend. It seemed that about 1/3 of the people who knew that it was not the original Memphis Belle also KNEW that the original was at the Smithsonian being restored. The majority thought that the original was still on Mud Island. It wasn't ...

Hey Scott, what's up with calling it the mock Memphis Belle in the B-17 News? I'm not seeing references to, say, the mock nine-o-nine . Disclaimer: I've spent the last 5 weeks working on the movie Memphis Belle , getting it ready for tour for the Liberty Foundation. Judging by the way our first tour...

EAA's Aluminum Overcast flew in to my town for a couple of days this week and I stopped by. I heard a mechanic say that there was a persistent fuel leak they were working on and they thought it had been fixed... :( Hmmm.... hadn't heard that one before. Oh well, I guess if the EAA mechanic said it,...

Nice pictures, I like the radio rack behind the co-pilot.

aerovin2 wrote: Airplane looks rough.

Nah, Looks like a transport....

Chuck

17f wrote: I have heard that possibly Don Brokks got this and tucked it away. Can anyone back that up by chance?

Well, it sure looks like the one in the hanger, but I'm not sure where ours came from...

Hmmm.... Are those B-24 locator pins in the ring?