B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby on the move to the National Air and Space Museum Posted news regarding B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby today on the NMUSAF Facebook Page today: “National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution restoration crews begin to disassemble the Boeing B-17G Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby. Plans call for NASM to ship the aircraft in sections…
As widely reported elsewhere but nonetheless reported here, B-17G 44-83546 (N3703G), also known as the Movie Memphis Belle, has been moved by its owner, the Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, (MARC) from its former home at Geneseo, New York, to Palm Springs, California. The airplane will be displayed for the time being at the Palm Springs Air…
I think it worth passing along the availability of a new DVD from Aviation Archeology that has, as its main subject, B-17G 44-85778 (N3509G), but has much more than that. The name of the DVD is Surviving B-17’s – “Miss Angela” A Fire Bomber’s Life and is available at their website for $22.99. The ordering…
I just added the individual aircraft histories of the six P-40s that were associated with Paul Mantz, Frank Tallman, and/or Tallmantz Aviation though the years. The main two P-40s, and the ones usually associated with the company, were TP-40N 44-47923 (N923) and P-40E AL152 (N1207V). The other four P-40s also had ties to Mantz or…
This is not new news, but needs to be mentioned….as released by the Lone Star Flight Museum on December 21: The Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the Mid America Flight Museum in Mount Pleasant, Texas (MAFM) whereby LSFM has agreed to sell its Boeing B-17…
Just posted on the Review page a book review on Jan Forsgren’s excellent new (well, 2019) book The Boeing B-17 in Foreign Service. I had this book on my “to review” list for a year, and coming up right behind it is a review of David Gransz’s three volume (for now) series on Boeing production…
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Liberty Foundation Back on Tour Seen today, July 18, at Twin Falls, ID, was B-17G N3701G (44-8543) which is back in the air and back on a national tour after extensive maintenance. Several months of work on the airplane to remove some structural corrosion entailed removal of the wings from the fuselage, which is obviously…
Update on the Site
Obviously…I have not updated these posts in some time…and in that time much has changed. The B-17G known as 909 crashed in October 2019 with the tragic loss of life of both crew and passengers. Since that time, all B-17 touring has been effectively stopped. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and FAA scrutiny on the Living History…
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