B-25 "Safe Return"

Wildchild · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:06 am

While discussing aviation art on another forum, I posted pictures of the Grumman S-2 trackers in St Augustine that were scrapped in 2012. Someone else posted this picture:

What's the story behind this 25'? Is it a actual B-25 that has time in WW2 or painted as one?

Here's a discription that Flickr gave:

Somewhere in the American desert, far off the beaten track, this amazing private collection of vintage aircraft hides from the public eye.

The yard contains B-25s, B-29s, F-86s, Lockheed Lodestars, and a whole host of other old and rare aircraft, most of them in pieces, awaiting eventual reassembly.

I snuck into this place on a sweltering night in 2008 and got caught, red-handed a couple hours later, when the gun and big dog loving caretaker came home. He was seriously pissed at me for ignoring all the "No Trespassing" signs and threw me out, but not before telling me the owner would sue me if I ever went public with the images. After almost 3 years of sitting on the work, I inadvertently found out who the owner was (while researching another site) and contacted him with the images I shot in 2008. Now a fan of my work, he's given me access and has let me show the old and new work, with the provision that I not release his name or the location of this truly amazing place, hereafter known as "The Secret Boneyard." He's concerned about thieves and vandals and doesn't want to be pestered with tourists. He's being very smart when he says he wants as few people as possible to know where it is.

For those of you that missed it in the last paragraph: No, I can't/won't tell you where it is or what the owner's name is. Trust me, if you have to use me to contact him, he isn't interested what you have to offer.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostameric ... 277222655/

Here's a link to the other fourm:

http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/t ... cseen.html

P.S. I'm not asking for information on the location. That was made very clear by the Flickr poster. Just the airframe.
P.S. 2: If you have ANY issue with this at all, PM me and I will remove it.

GARY HILTON · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:36 am

I know the secret location! Nonny, nonny, booboo!

Oh yeah...it is a real B-25

Wildchild · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:44 am

GARY HILTON wrote:

I know the secret location! Nonny, nonny, booboo!

Oh yeah...it is a real B-25

You lucky little... Lol

I didn't mean if it was real or fake, I ment if it has any wartime experience.

:axe:

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:30 am

Nope, stateside trainer its whole career, per Scott Thompson's book B-25 Mitchell in Civil Service.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b25regis ... 29812.html
Now on display at the WWII Museum in New Orleans.

Rajay · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:35 am

Wildchild wrote:

While discussing aviation art on another forum, I posted pictures of the Grumman S-2 trackers in St Augustine that were scrapped in 2012....

OK since the B-25 question has been resolved, how about those Stoofs?

It sounds to me like they would be a valid subject of their own thread on this forum, too. Please tell us more about them here (or in a new thread on WIX - or have you done that already, too? Link? Thanks!)

P.S. "Wildchild" your avatar on that other forum is tagged with "Bf 109 killer" but the "victim" in the picture appears to me to be a Focke-Wulf 190, is it not?

Wildchild · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:21 pm

Yes, it says Bf 109 killer, and the picture is a FW-190. The simulator we represent on the site is where I came up with Bf 109 killer, because most of the planes I have shot down are infact 109's.

As for the Trackers, I thought they were discussed here already...?

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