B-26K "Mighty Mouse" as she appears today

[Jack Cook]

BTW what's up with Lynch's flyable (?) B-26K that a vet group was going to buy?

[Neal Nurmi]

Here are shots of the Lynch bird and another-K that flew briefly in the 70s before being crashed in Chino. They both have quite different cowlings from the Korean example. Anybody know why?

[mlenoch]

As seen on the photo of #4, are the vertical stabilizer vortex generators from On Mark conversions? These obviously are not WW2.
Thx,
VL

[bdk]

As seen on the photo of #4, are the vertical stabilizer vortex generators from On Mark conversions? These obviously are not WW2.

Perhaps a fire bomber mod for engine outs at higher gross weights?

[T J Johansen]

I don't think any of these are the one which crashed at Chino? Sasnak is right. The silver one is in the USAF museum in Dayton, and I feel that the camo one might be the Lynch K. It has the somewhat non- standard camo colors as I have seen in other photos. N99218 which crashed at Chino used to have a glass nose installed, and I believe it still did when it went down.

All On-Mark conversions got the vortex generators installed, both civilian and miltary.

T J

[Neal Nurmi]

Yes the camo bird is (or was) definitely Denny's -- photographed in 1987 or 88 at the former Hamilton AFB in Marin County, Ca. The silver airplane was owned by Wally McDonnell (I may have the spelling wrong) -- raced one year at Mojave, photographed here at a Chino Warbird show in 1979, and soon after crashed badly in a landing accident at Chino. I have no idea what happened to the remains but I understand it was quite badly torn up.

I do not think Wally's airplane was ever a firebomber...

[Ryan Keough]

The A-26 Legacy Foundation in NH is still working on acquiring the Lynch B-26K -- I'll ask Don Vogler, the founder, to see what's going on.

[T J Johansen]

Yes the camo bird is (or was) definitely Denny's -- photographed in 1987 or 88 at the former Hamilton AFB in Marin County, Ca. The silver airplane was owned by Wally McDonnell (I may have the spelling wrong) -- raced one year at Mojave, photographed here at a Chino Warbird show in 1979, and soon after crashed badly in a landing accident at Chino. I have no idea what happened to the remains but I understand it was quite badly torn up.

I do not think Wally's airplane was ever a firebomber...

The silver one (N22939 #4 "The Mojave Kid") didn't crash. It was later traded to the USAF museum. McDonnell also traded his second one to the USAF museum and they placed it at Ellsworth AFB in SD, where it still resides. The third B-26K he had was N99218 seen here. That's the a/c which went down at Chino in Feb.78.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/On-Mark-A-26K/0694647/L/

T J

[Neal Nurmi]

Thanks for the clarification

I did not realise that Wally had more than 1 B-26K. This is the aircraft I saw racing at Mojave in July 1979. I distinctly remember seeing a short item in Air Comics saying that an airplane owned by Wally had crashed in a landing accident in Chino. It must obviously have been referring to the earlier airplane. Wally was (is?) quite the character, and quite the wheeler-dealer in his time. Haven't seen him in a decade or so...

Sorry about passing along misinformation and thanks for the clarification...

[T J Johansen]

Thanks for the clarification

I did not realise that Wally had more than 1 B-26K. This is the aircraft I saw racing at Mojave in July 1979. I distinctly remember seeing a short item in Air Comics saying that an airplane owned by Wally had crashed in a landing accident in Chino. It must obviously have been referring to the earlier airplane. Wally was (is?) quite the character, and quite the wheeler-dealer in his time. Haven't seen him in a decade or so...

Sorry about passing along misinformation and thanks for the clarification...

Just happy to see your stuff. You've posted lots of cool photos both here and other places. I too remember the photos of N99218 on the ground at Chino following the engine failure. Air Classics and their "Warbird Report" feature if I'm not mistaken.

T J

[davegnz]

If you google 44-34119 not only do you get this A-26's SEA history, but an accident report also pops-up:

http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/ ... 950May.htm

44-34119 had a mid air collision with 44-35806 on 28 May 1950 15 miles E of Tinker AFB

[leo]

Wally flew it to several airshows back then and I have shots of it at a Travis AFB show. I rememnber the pics in "Warbird Report" (and still have the issue) and it was pretty torn up. [/img]

[Jack Cook]

If I recall correctly Ted Stewart was flying it and one prop reversed in flight

[JohnH]

The Lynch K at Hamilton would have to be 87. It definitely was not there in 88. That was an awesome show that ran 87-90.

John

[RareBear]

Were the vortex generators on the On-Mark conversions only on the right side of the vertical stabilizer? Both of the photos in this thread showing the left side of O-M conversions don't show any vortex generators.

Walt