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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:02 pm 
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Here is a pic of some damage to the B-25 at the musem. I was told at one time that it was due to the airframe being overstressed. THen today someone told me that it was due to damage during moving it around the base. What do you guys think?

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A little Botox is needed for those wrinkles!

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:52 pm 
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Here is a pic of some damage to the B-25 at the musem. I was told at one time that it was due to the airframe being overstressed. THen today someone told me that it was due to damage during moving it around the base. What do you guys think?

Clearly it was overstressed. Maybe the nosegear collapsed at some time in the past? I wouldn't expect there to be sufficient structural load in flight to cause that. It isn't like the wrinkled fuselage of a B-52, it is too localized.


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The airplane was probably on a pole at one time and maybe some crane operator got a bit anxious on bringing it down.

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I don't think she was ever on a pole, but according to the Registry she was used for firefighting prior to starring in "Catch 22," so I'm sure she was "rode hard and put away wet" on many occasions. The Registry says she went from Tallmantz to the Museum in 1974..was she flown to the museum, or trucked in?

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It's "oilcanning" from plowing through rough seas.


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I am pretty sure that it was flown in.

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An older gent who told us he instructed in B25s way back when said you could always tell a B25 that had been rolled (badly) as the fuselage was deformed and the centersection was wrinkled. Ugh. It could be true, as the planes are rated for 2.8G...considering the assymetric G applied in a badly done roll, this could be the results. Does the other side have same or similar damage?

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Thanks Mark. It does have the same style damage on the other side. Growing up my best friends grandfather who was also my next door neighbor was a pilot in VMB-413 and flew PBJ's. he mentioned that one pilot on his last mission before going home, rolled a PBJ. he said that the CO was pretty mad, but didn't press any punishment as the guy was going home.

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So if I understand this correctly, a B-25 is not to be rolled?

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Well, Bob Hoover could roll an Aero Commander quite successfully, but they are not an aerobatic capable plane either.


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In a picture of this B-25 that Stoney provided us with, she was not wrinkled during the production of Catch 22.
In an old black and white I have of her at Grissom, she was sitting with her landing gear down on three concrete pylons about a couple of feet off the ground. the port side was pretty wrinkled, kinda looked like that Buff wrinkle ya know what I mean, so she must have been damaged either at Orange County, or there at Grissom while she was being hoisted to the pylons. My guess is an improper rigging during the original hoist. but this is just my opinion.

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