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About 2:25 Monday afternoon I was heading east on I-10 between about 20 miles west of Banning when I saw a semi going west. On the trailer was a pair of silver wings with two nacelles each with round firewalls and rounded wingtips. They looked very much like B-17 wings to me - but whose are they, an...

Here's a still from "Tora! Tora! Tora!": http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/ChrisBrame/cap730.jpg Note the auxiliary windows in the windscreen - the B-17 fuselage from Greeley, CO appears to have them as well; this is now believed to be the 20th Century Fox studio plane. My question: Which B-17s ...

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Not a lot of landmarks here, but the topography sure isn't like the area around the Chino airport (which is pretty much flat as an ironing board).

Air Classics had an article entitled "Harvesting the Zuider Zee" in '73 or '74 with a couple pictures of Dinah Mite . Unfortunately it didn't specify when the photos were taken, or that the aircraft had been scrapped. Too bad the Air Force Museum (or anyone else!) didn't rescue it, even for an "as ...

A couple years ago I attended a screening of a documentary on the Cinerama filming process that had a lot of nice color footage of N1203 flying (although in one sequence discussing Mantz having an engine failure, they showed a B-24 engine shutting down!). The documentary has not yet been released du...

Here's an enlarged frame from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" that shows N1203 in the background: