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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:08 pm 
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Updates - Feb 3, 2011
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Flooring installed in nose.
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Looking up at the top turret support structure.
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Fred building the radio room camera bay door operating mechanism.
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Cheyenne tail, replica 500lb bombs.
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Rear fuselage with tail gunner door opening.
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Cabin heat control in radio room with homemade decal.
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Bob forming a repair section for the radio room hatch structure.
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Bob and Carole "discussing" how to make the repair.
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Some of this is even original.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:18 pm 
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Great shots!

Thanks so much for the updates!!

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:30 pm 
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Anyone know if the ball turret is the one from the bar in Colorado?

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Keep posting the updates please :D

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Absolutely spectacular!!!! Definitely it's own permanent thread please!

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 5:42 pm 
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Snowy day in Ohio - volunteers have the day off.
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Kevlar cheek gun fairing in place.
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Life raft compartment.
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Cockpit area.
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Bags of small brackets and widgets.
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Ball turret - yes it is from the bar in Colorado.
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Ready to rivet the bead around the co-pilot seat.
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Radio room seat post mounts here.
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Throttle quadrant restored.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:23 pm 
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390BG wrote:
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Ball turret - yes it is from the bar in Colorado.



I'm glad to see it all restored. I think it's awesome it's going to fly again. I live in Greeley where it was inside the former Armory Bar (closed for a couple of years now). It was a big college kid hangout and on the weekends the kids would get up on the tables and grab all over the fuselage and the ball turret.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:59 am 
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Figured out how to load larger images in Photobucket - photos courtesy Carole B.

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What parts are kevlar? And why?

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The cheek gun fairings would be a serious undertaking to make out of aluminum to the original spec's. Don't know if anyone has made any from aluminum recently - either they have originals or they made them out of some type of fiberglass/composite material.

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Get rid of some old stickies(they are taking up lots of posting space) and make this a sticky. :wink: IMHO looks like the craftsmanship level is up there with Gary Austin. Def worthy of a sticky. :D

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:23 am 
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Radio room seat support posts.

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Top turret structure.

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Gun mounts for top turret.

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Paul with beginnings of one of the engine nacelles.

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Radio room seat.

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Light on lower part of vertical fin. Blue formation light mounts behind this.

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Great updates/photos. Keep up the good work.

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Are you getting any parts from these guys? http://usaaf.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 4&start=50

I read somewhere on line that they have plenty that they'd like to have taken off their hands.


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I'm informed from "Salvage Central" that items are slowly making their way across the Pond to a number of destinations, but shipping costs are/were a big stumbling block.

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