China Lake B24 is NOT a B24 cries

Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:19 pm

it's a B29.

*runs out of forum before everyone starts screaming*

no tail, rumpled a bunch on the port side, and supposedly well picked over by the Fifi crew. Just thought I would update you.

My dig went extremely well, but I can't discuss it. No Aliens or Sasquatch bones in any case

Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:30 pm

pffffft just another one of those pesky B-29. If I had a dime for every time I ran across one of those in a field...

Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:34 pm

muddyboots wrote: and supposedly well picked over by the Fifi crew.

No doubt true. However, in their defense, the FIFI recovery crew weren't the only ones who "picked over" parts from the China Lake B-29 inventory.

Gary

Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:47 pm

hey, I am not complaining. The corpses on China lake need to be cannibalized. Most have been well used as targets and couldn't be made flyable without a huge amount of work. Even up to museum standards would be super expensive, and there are anumber floating around desperately scrounging for parts. China lake has helped that search greatly, even allowing one, if not two, B29's to fly again. Good enough for me

Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:07 pm

Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:20 pm

No matter what condition I'd save those B-29s...or whats left of them.

No need to go to the trouble to make one flying. It would prolly look cool just as is in a museum or part of a collection.

Any future plans of saving them?

Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:16 pm

There are no plans now or ever.

Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:42 pm

I'll remember that next time I run my hand along that rumpled aluminium skin...

Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:29 am

Echo Range?

Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:12 pm

think so. The ECM range. This is the bird they experimented on for nuclear blast effects :twisted:

China Lake B24 is NOT a B24 *cries*