Dottie Mae status?
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:01 pm
After this T-Bolt was extricated from that lake in Europe, all I ever heard was that it was in secret restoration in California. Have there been any updates of any kind on it? Thanks.
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:57 pm
George
There is a website about it, search the forum for the link.
Dave
There is a website about it, search the forum for the link.
Dave
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:17 pm
Now I'm curious! What is the source of your information?
There's no secret, it is just in storage until the owner has time to restore it. In the mean time they are making sure it remains well preserved until the restoration can start in earnest. Just like any project it has to make it to the front of the queue.
Of course I might just be perpetuating the myth...
<EDIT> Replaced link, old link now dead...
http://www.alliedfighters.com/index2.html
There's no secret, it is just in storage until the owner has time to restore it. In the mean time they are making sure it remains well preserved until the restoration can start in earnest. Just like any project it has to make it to the front of the queue.
Of course I might just be perpetuating the myth...
<EDIT> Replaced link, old link now dead...
http://www.alliedfighters.com/index2.html
Last edited by bdk on Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:21 pm
http://www.dottiemaep-47.com/
When I was trying to enlarge one of the long string of thumbnail pics, I discovered I had to pan back to the center of the string to find the enlarged picture. Your computer may be different.
When I was trying to enlarge one of the long string of thumbnail pics, I discovered I had to pan back to the center of the string to find the enlarged picture. Your computer may be different.
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Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:42 pm
BDK - The secret location/restoration reported on here was in another state. My mistake.
Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:06 pm
No problem. It has been within ten feet of the same spot since it arrived in Chino.george wrote:The secret location/restoration reported on here was in another state.
Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:22 pm
The good news is that the link Dave suggested and you provided says it will be ready by late next year. I guess its also good news that its not in a secret location in Indiana, as was initially reported on the forum.
Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:58 pm
Is it going to be a flyer or static?
Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:08 am
Flyer.
Re: Dottie Mae status?
Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:44 am
Dottie Mae is really moving along and looking good. The folks are doing a GREAT job by the looks of things. Here is a link to their site, engine reassemble, airframe work...lots of cool pics. Click on the "NEWS" tab and it gets you to the latest pics of the progress just posted
http://www.alliedfighters.com/index2.html
http://www.alliedfighters.com/index2.html
Re: Dottie Mae status?
Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:07 am
And of course it is no longer in storage at Chino but being actively restored...
Re: Dottie Mae status?
Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:32 am
This thread is 2 years old, no doubt a victim of the broken search engine!
Chris, your profiles look great! A definite improvement over the last one they had.
Are they really going to leave the markings as factory fresh on the Mustang? It's an MTO vet is it not?
Chris, your profiles look great! A definite improvement over the last one they had.
Are they really going to leave the markings as factory fresh on the Mustang? It's an MTO vet is it not?
Re: Dottie Mae status?
Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:38 am
If I recall the 51's history correctly, it arrived in the Med Theater just as hostilities were ending. It saw service as an ANG aircraft after that.
Re: Dottie Mae status?
Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:30 pm
They are building up quite a nice little collection of flyers! Hmmmm, so what is next? I think they are missing a P-40!
Re: Dottie Mae status?
Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:30 pm
George
You need to read through the newsletters - especially the first with pilot and 'owner' Larry Kuhl.
The restoration has only been going 8 months or so and is going extremely well. Except to some of the skins and extrusions everything else is in superb condition.
The lower fuselage that suffered the most damage and corrosion is well on the way to being completed. The tail cone has been taken apart and is nearly re-assembled.
History wise we know of 91 missions (although possibility of a couple more due to no aircraft letter being recorded). Also finding on transfer flights as well as air tests after repairs. Found a few more photos of K4-S being repaired at Kitzingen as well as a photo of the old Razorback K4-S still with the unit but being used as a hack. (in May 1945).
The red fin flash (when yellow was the squadron colour) is still confusing. Interestingly a number of other aircraft also sported the red fin flash as well though no-one knows the reason why.
Gradually starting to hear from former pilots and ground crew and hope to find more photos and information.
Hopefully some of the above photos and combat info will be published in one of the US magazines in the spring.
Django - As for Chris profile - it is superb and a lot more detail meaning it can be blown up to large scale. The 3 others profiles I commissioned from Norwegian Kjetil Aakra were for an article and were are also very good (but he does them as a hobby!) Bare in mind Chris used them as a start point along with photos and also Chris has probably spend 10x more time on it and also does rendering as a profession!
Its been great to watch and report - there is still surprises to be found but she is a beaut.Looking forward to the progress in 2010.
regards
Mark Sheppard - Staff writer/historian - Allied Fighters.
Still trying to find the family of S/Sgt Samuel L Kirschenbaum - Communications section of 511S who was the artist who painted 'Dottie Mae'.
You need to read through the newsletters - especially the first with pilot and 'owner' Larry Kuhl.
The restoration has only been going 8 months or so and is going extremely well. Except to some of the skins and extrusions everything else is in superb condition.
The lower fuselage that suffered the most damage and corrosion is well on the way to being completed. The tail cone has been taken apart and is nearly re-assembled.
History wise we know of 91 missions (although possibility of a couple more due to no aircraft letter being recorded). Also finding on transfer flights as well as air tests after repairs. Found a few more photos of K4-S being repaired at Kitzingen as well as a photo of the old Razorback K4-S still with the unit but being used as a hack. (in May 1945).
The red fin flash (when yellow was the squadron colour) is still confusing. Interestingly a number of other aircraft also sported the red fin flash as well though no-one knows the reason why.
Gradually starting to hear from former pilots and ground crew and hope to find more photos and information.
Hopefully some of the above photos and combat info will be published in one of the US magazines in the spring.
Django - As for Chris profile - it is superb and a lot more detail meaning it can be blown up to large scale. The 3 others profiles I commissioned from Norwegian Kjetil Aakra were for an article and were are also very good (but he does them as a hobby!) Bare in mind Chris used them as a start point along with photos and also Chris has probably spend 10x more time on it and also does rendering as a profession!
Its been great to watch and report - there is still surprises to be found but she is a beaut.Looking forward to the progress in 2010.
regards
Mark Sheppard - Staff writer/historian - Allied Fighters.
Still trying to find the family of S/Sgt Samuel L Kirschenbaum - Communications section of 511S who was the artist who painted 'Dottie Mae'.