Warbird Information Exchange

And there were an awful lot of Stinson's flying yesterday!

Would have loved to be out there....beautiful weather for beating up the field a bit.... Unfortunately the wife fell and got pretty banged up Friday morning so I had the boys all day. The oldest likes going out to the hangar, but there isn't much that I can do with the 13 month old out there and do anything more than watch him.

Nice pictures, but I couldn't see any aircraft....all I could see was something about "bogarting"

Dad used to work out there and ran the photo lab. He was there when they restored the CAF's P-40 and FG-1D

Great to see the work progressing...

I have only been in that shop one time ,3-4 years ago, when they had a family day open house.

If you know someone that works out there, you might be able to butter them up and talk them in to taking you out there...

Z

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Would be nice to see the F6U (My favorite 1st generation jet) and the Pancake return home to Stratford! Well, at least i know the pancake was here, but I'm not sure about the pirate.

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Chicks Dig Warbirds.......right?

Chris;
The Pirate was saved by the New England Air Museum back in 1979. We had it in storage until a deal was made with the Vought Heritage group.
Jerry

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Why can't they have a public open house some time. It would seem if it is well handled from the other facilities security aspects, they could raise a little bit of money by allowing the public to see some the work in progress. I'd gladly pay $10.00 admission.

Bill.

Okay, so other than that Corsair, will any of these go airworthy ever?

There really are not enough flying F-8s...

So where are these aircraft going to be displayed? Is there a chance that we may see these historic aircraft return to CT? Or at least maybe they could be on loan? Of course this is when there will actually be a presentable place to exhibit aircraft.

Also: What happened to this S-43? Last i heard it was in Texas?

http://ships.bouwman.com/Planes/HughesS43-Big.jpg

Maybe she can be brought home too! That, or maybe the NASM will loan us there Pearl Harbor S-43 and let us restore it? Of course this would be one heck of an undertaking. But I'm sure the Pacific Aviation Museum wants dibs on it first.

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Keep Em' Flying,
Christopher Soltis
Dedicated to the preservation and education of The Sikorsky Memorial Airport

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Chicks Dig Warbirds.......right?

Pima has an S-43. I don't think the Hughes boat is leaving Texas anytime soon.

Short answer... no. Not even the F4U-4. It is being made up of mostly non-airworthy parts from a couple of aircraft that crashed at Oshkosh, and the former John Silberman project that was at Tom Reilly's for many years. The spar is non-original, and built up in a non-original manner (ie. several layers for the spar caps rather than single pieces). This was supposed to have been an FAA approved mod., but I think it was decided it shouldn't be used for one reason or another. The fuselage supposedly had some issues too, but I don't know the details on that.

No F-8U's currently flying, as far as I know, unless NASA still has one that they're using. Everyone else retired theirs. The French Navy were the last military users I believe, retiring theirs in the late '90's/early 2000.

The Pancake belongs to NASM, and I would imagine it will go straight to Udvar-Hazy when it's done. Not sure about the F6U. I must admit to being really happy when I saw that they'd taken it on. I remember seing it sitting in a very dishevelled heap at NEAM. Good that NEAM saved her though... pity she lost her wings... whatever happened to them?


Cheers,
Richard

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