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Thats good news for Urbana, now we can get started on locating the cockpit top on the forward fuselage. I'll be coming out of Alaska the end of August so looks like something to do when I get back to Urbana. Mike, I just returned from a trip out to Dutch Harbor, no B 17s in that part. What is still ...

We don't have the data or drawing package to do a YB 40. Without that it would take too much imagination.

The Urbana tail turret is now planned to be the cheyenne tail turret.

I believe it will have the cheyenne tail but I'll verify that next week.

Six of the Urbana volunteers went to Douglas, GA last spring and removed the skins from Don Brooks new B 17 project. This is the radio compartment from his airplane and yes, it had lots of corrision. We copied his skins to make a pattern for our radio compartment.

Yes, it looks like we have four different B 17s being used to restore 44-85813. All I can say about a completion date is that the owners are anxious to have it completed and they are providing all the necessary resources in a very timely manner. We had heard that the vertical stabilizer from 44-8331...

I'm a new member to the forum and currently a volunteer on the Ubana restoration of B 17G, 44-85813 and thought I would share a little trivia on our project with the forum. It is likely that the vertical stab we have can be traced back to DB-17G, 44-83525. After seeing in the book "Final Cut" the nu...