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Just to let the few that read this know, I added a page to my Paul Mantz area trying to get together a list of the some of the principals who worked with Mantz over the years before he morphed into Tallmantz Aviation. It can be found here: https://www.aerovintage.com/tallmantz-aviation/paul-mantz-em...

The wingtip looks clipped to me.

Post-1948 B-17 with chin and top turrets...very unusual, if that is indeed a post-1948 insignia. The main fuselage door also seems to be missing or obscured by the camera angle.

I added a page to my Tallmantz Memories and Recollections section with five Paul Mantz stories provided by Jerry Farquhar, who was a good friend of Paul Mantz Jr. in the mid 1950s, and he spent some time with the Mantz family and at Orange County Airport, witnessing some of Mantz exploits during tha...

I added a post today at the aerovintage site that updates the status of the Movie Memphis Belle (44-83546, N3703G). As per Nick Veronico, who visited the museum last week and received updated information and photos, the B-17 may be flying by the spring or summer of next year. https://www.aerovintage...

With B-17G Yankee Lady now safe and sound at Madras, I put together a pictorial history of the airplane beginning in 1945 that is now up on the aerovintage website. https://www.aerovintage.com/2024/10/22/a-pictorial-history-of-yankee-lady/ https://www.aerovintage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/85829...

I expanded and updated my dedicated page on the 1969 film "The Thousand Page Raid" in my listing of B-17 films at aerovintage. I hope to do that with some of the other films and TV shows also. https://www.aerovintage.com/thousand-plane-raid/ https://www.aerovintage.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/100...

I just added a 'deep dive' page on the history of this Tallmantz P-38 to my Tallmantz website. This is the P-38 that is currently on the pylon at McGuire AFB in New Jersey. https://www.aerovintage.com/tallmantz-aviation/tallmantz-p-38l-44-53015-n9957f/ https://www.aerovintage.com/wp-content/uploads/...

I just added a lengthy post at aerovintage.com that explores the engines, superchargers, and turbosuperchargers as installed on the B-17 series.

https://www.aerovintage.com/2024/07/17/ ... -the-b-17/

I just added a post that provides a detailed history of B-17G 44-83439, which was used by Bell Aircraft Co. to help develop the RASCAL air-to-surface missile, and then went on to be sold surplus to be used as a tropical fish transport for Paramount Aquarium as N131P. It crashed in Colombia in Decemb...

I would suspect a plain old error, perhaps?

Not groundbreaking, but I added a page to my Tallmantz site that features the use of its collection aircraft in advertisements and other media. Looking for more examples if anyone has anything to offer. https://www.aerovintage.com/tallmantz-aviation/tallmantz-in-print/ https://www.aerovintage.com/wp...

I just posted the history of the eight USAF B-17Gs that went to Bolivia in 1956 as part of a CAA foreign assistance program. They became CP-620 through CP-627. Gordon Hamilton prepared the aircraft at Tucson, AZ. Also part of that deal were seven USAF B-17Gs disassembled by Hamilton to provide parts...

I noted today that the ex-Tallman FM-2 owned by Comanche Warbirds (N29FG) has been listed for sale with Platinum Fighter Sales as the broker. Asking price is $1.695 million (if you have to ask...). The listing shows total airframe time as 509 hours with 10.6 hours since restoration. The site shows t...

I just added a page to my Tallmantz section on the May 1961 'race' between Frank Tallman's FG-1D Corsair and Lincoln LF-1 "Nieuport 28." The race was flown from Los Alamitos, CA, to Pensacola, FL, over 10 days. Not so well known today, but received a lot of press back then and was part of the 50th A...

I added a post about the 13 PB-1Ws purchased as surplus in late 1957 by American Compressed Steel Corp, eleven of which ended up parked in a corner of Dallas-Love Field between 1958 and 1962. All of them made it to the civil registry and three survive...two on display at USAF bases and on on display...