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- Mon Oct 19, 2020 2:09 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Yet another Air Scouts B-17, plus maybe 2 more
- Replies: 7
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Re: Yet another Air Scouts B-17, plus maybe 2 more
So...I love to research and the net is a great thing. However; most of you probably don't know that I made money as a detective for 11 years and worked as a contractor for an alphabet agency doing investigative work. I mention this because I think that if you want to run down rumors of buried aircra...
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:34 am
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Yet another Air Scouts B-17, plus maybe 2 more
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12704
Re: Yet another Air Scouts B-17, plus maybe 2 more
Apparently Dry Martini has some information about the Rockford aircraft: http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5444&sid=b87210d05aaac738402bf1c57b477726&start=15 Not much I admit, but since there was a local rumor and there really was a B-17 in the area, it might still be ...
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 2:06 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Is this "Feather Merchant" in better days?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5808
Re: Is this "Feather Merchant" in better days?
As she is today:
Via Wordpress.com's article on Bataan.- Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:59 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Is this "Feather Merchant" in better days?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5808
Is this "Feather Merchant" in better days?
In New Guinea sits the remains of the most historic B-25 still in existance. Almost completely ignored by the warbird world. I actually talked to a man in Austrialia who attempted to recover it 2 years ago and was shocked to learn it's history. He thought it was just another B-25. Surfing the net I ...
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:00 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: B-17E fat cat/ little buster upper 94 missions 41-2648
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18583
Re: B-17E fat cat/ little buster upper 94 missions 41-2648
Thanks Steve! Without doubt, you are the man on this subject! Question about Combat hours. I'm retiring from the Army after 40 years. I have 1132 combat hours on my books. Now, that does not mean I got shot at on each of those missions. Just that I COULD have been shot at. The regs have changed over...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:28 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: B-17E fat cat/ little buster upper 94 missions 41-2648
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18583
B-17E fat cat/ little buster upper 94 missions 41-2648
Nice article that gives what I believe is not a well known history of this AC. 94 missions before being flown back to US. 586 combat hours. It really makes me think of one of the 'Pacific Tramps" which was noted as having over 1000 combat hours, well over a thousand combat hours. Meaning it could we...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:12 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Death of a surplus fort
- Replies: 0
- Views: 17955
Death of a surplus fort
Found this article in an antiques store then looked up and found the same article online . It is a bried article about scrapping in Albaquerque. Which we all know is rather rate. There are a series of photo's scrapping a B-17E. One of you trainer guys will probably figure it out from the number 47 o...
- Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:18 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Postwar F-9/B-17F ( 1946)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7134
Re: Postwar F-9/B-17F ( 1946)
Not sure why the first pic posted three times! Sorry! Oh, and as always, found it here:https://www.armyaircorpsmuseum.org/phot ... m?PID=6652
- Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Postwar F-9/B-17F ( 1946)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7134
Postwar F-9/B-17F ( 1946)
I came across these photo's from the Album of a Loyd Nutall, while browsing:
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:55 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: B-17F 41-24548 "Harry the Horse" fuselage wreckage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11971
Re: B-17F 41-24548 "Harry the Horse" fuselage wreckage
I talked to a man who just went and looked at it this last year. He says it's still there but pretty picked over. You could probably get it cheap!!!
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:40 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Round Tripper
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8945
Re: Round Tripper
Could this be "42-31974" "Bomb Boogie"? She survived the war and was brought home to the US. Noted as at Kingman in 45. A war memorial maybe? She has the same type of nose art as "belle of the brawl". Or at least one of them.
- Sat Aug 31, 2019 6:59 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Attn shoppers: 4 Hendricks and a mystery F-9
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9258
Re: Attn shoppers: 4 Hendricks and a mystery F-9
it sure looks like this one:http://acepilots.com/planes/nose-art-b17.html
Found it here:- Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:50 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Toilet Bowl Bomber ( A-1) Vietnam
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18286
Toilet Bowl Bomber ( A-1) Vietnam
One more, I guess this one was of an historic aircraft. I have another in color of a squadron mate taken about the same time
- Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:34 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Something different "race 77" 1947
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18145
Something different "race 77" 1947
I picked up a bunch of negatives and some prints from a yard sale this weekend. Most are negatives and slides from 1939 to about the Korean War. There is even a color slide of an O-52. The only "warbird" print is this one of the P-51 Galloping ghost, with a P-63 and another P-51 in the background. A...
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 6:59 pm
- Forum: Warbirds and Such Things
- Topic: Post 1940s Scrapping
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14434
Re: Post 1940s Scrapping
There are a couple of tricks to use The first is to look for the sub units records. The second is to look for the weapons projects files. Those usually have pics of the results of the weapons test on various aircraft, vehicles ect. You need to speak Army Beurocracy. And with 39 years in the Army I k...