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I would just like to hear what it sounded like...and see it fly.

Thanks Steve for once again providing some real story information about the extraordinary things ordinary people did during the war.

WOW!

I can hardly wait to see this in the air!
Thanks for sending along the info.

Great update.
Thanks for the information.
The newsletter looks very good.

One Doolittle raider B25 ended up in Russian territory.

Since the crew was not buried, they were interned for a period of time.

You are cracking me up.

On another note, always interesting to see how they tried to have a "normal" appearing life away from combat.

I am not sure the nose of the B17 is so pointy - believe a poorly reproduced photo with high contrast (direct sun on top and dark shadows on the sides) makes it look that way.
I would like to see the original photo as well.

thanks Scott - got two nice postcards from you this weekend.
Already on my "Only Thing I Want for Christmas" and my wife knows what that means...careful with your responses guys...one wife - one 37 year marriage...not much happens like that by accident.

Craig59
Many thanks for clearing that up.
I thought I had been a bad boy or sumpin'.

Hope that Scott and the gang can resolve the problems quickly.

I have to say this restoration project is l-o-n-g overdue. I only hope that Swoose is re-assembled in my lifetime. I'm not "that old", but...it HAS been apart and in storage almost all of my life. I applaud whomever in NASM & NMUSAF worked together to make this change in venue a reality and I agree ...

Sorry, forgot to log in.
The previous post was from me.
ww2John

There is a replica P6E at EAA Airventure Museum.
more information at: http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collect ... #TopOfPage
It does have a "Curtiss Conqueror, V-1570C 700 hp" engine

How about a Bell FM-1 Airacuda? That must have looked like something from outer space when it was built in the late '30s.

Some details at: http://home.att.net/~Berliner-ultrasoni ... 1.html#FM1

(scroll down the page to FM-1)

Looks like terrific work.
Thanks for sharing.
When will it get "hung" on the bird?

If I had to make a guess, the picture that Dik posted is the film crew preparing to shoot a "process shot". There is a frame with some cloth material on the rear wall of the studio you can see behind the cockpit. After the scene was filmed they would "marry" the footage of the pilot in the cockpit w...