Posts at Aero Vintage: B-17E Turrets and Liberty Belle Stuff

[aerovin]

Just added two new posts to the Aero Vintage pages:

An update on what's going on at Asheville with Ray Moore rebuilding the aft section of B-17G Liberty Belle (44-85734)



And, an article about the early Sperry remote turrets as installed on the B-17E:



Check it out...

https://www.aerovintage.com/home/blog/

[lucky52]

Is that the same "Liberty Bell" that landed while on fire and burned up ?

[TAdan]

Is that the same "Liberty Bell" that landed while on fire and burned up ?

Yes.

Great updates Scott, glad to have them back.

[Pat Carry]

Thanks for the update Scott. Will you eventually bring the B-25 pages back?

[aerovin]

Pat,

I doubt the B-25 pages will come back, at least anytime soon. I’m concentrating on the B-17 stuff and the Tallmantz pages. Those are enough for me. I’ll leave the old B-25 News pages available for what they are worth, but the other B-25 pages will just fade away…

That being said, I’m planning on using my new News and Information pages for whatever I find interesting, so I won’t ignore some good updates on B-25 items.

[JohnB]

Scott
Great updates.

I found your comment of the rumored $10.5million sale price of Thunderbird interesting.
Perhaps that means the extent of resoration/rebuild work needed on ships like Liberty Belle is financially justifiable...so we will see more in the future.

Also great article on the ex-Tallmantz B-25.
Perhaps you can answer a question...was it the one seen, with a nonstandard nose, in the pilot episode for the never produced Catch 22 TV series?

Last edited by JohnB on Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[aerovin]

The B-25 seen in the TV pilot for Catch-22 was the other Tallmantz camera ship, N1203. See this also: https://www.aerovintage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11828#p11828 about 2/3 down the page....

And thanks for the good words...more stuff coming.

[lucky52]

I wonder if that Sperry remote turret from "Swamp Ghost" is laying out there somewhere, ripped off from the crash landing?

[Matt Gunsch]

I wonder if that Sperry remote turret from "Swamp Ghost" is laying out there somewhere, ripped off from the crash landing?

It was attached when they lifted it from the swamp, still had the .50s in it.

[lucky52]

But it is not on the aircraft now it looks like, or am I not seeing it?

[Lon Moer]

The B-25 seen in the TV pilot for Catch-22 was the other Tallmantz camera ship, N1203. See this also: https://www.aerovintage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11828#p11828 about 2/3 down the page....

And thanks for the good words...more stuff coming.

A couple screen shots....