New addition @ Mineral Wells Tx airport.
Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:07 pm
The only info I was able to gather is its owned by a local pilot who bought it surplus and is not part of the Vietnam Museum that is local. Guy I talked to at the terminal didn't know the S/N. He did say that he painted it himself so maybe he's an ex T-bird?
Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:18 pm
Did you get any pics of the UH-1 in the background???
Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:51 pm
N3Njeff wrote:Did you get any pics of the UH-1 in the background???
Right here:
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... eral+wells
Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:01 pm
Thanks for the pictures.
Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:06 pm
cozmo wrote:Thanks for the pictures.
No problemo
Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:10 pm
displayed beautifully!!!
Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:45 pm
Ah Ha! That explains this....
Thanks for the update Steve.
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... ht=mineral
Thanks for the update Steve.
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... ht=mineral
Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:58 pm
Weren't all the T-bird 38's lost on an off season practice flight out of Nellis?
Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:21 pm
michaelharadon wrote:Weren't all the T-bird 38's lost on an off season practice flight out of Nellis?
Yes
Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:29 pm
ok since me and steve were talking earlier and he hasnt said anything about it nor has anybody else noticed... im going to point it out steve. any notice the blue painters tape towards the nose? 
Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:31 pm
michaelharadon wrote:Weren't all the T-bird 38's lost on an off season practice flight out of Nellis?
Four aircraft and their pilots were lost in a diamond loop in Jan. 1982. There are obviously more than six T-38 aircraft which served the Thunderbirds of course.
Richard
Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:54 pm
michaelharadon wrote:Weren't all the T-bird 38's lost on an off season practice flight out of Nellis?
I highly doubt this is(was) a geeniewine T-bird, bird
The owner chose to paint it as such and I have yet to find out why.
The plot thickens
Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:38 pm
A three-ship T-38 display used to be located at the MN Museum of Transportation in Owatonna.
The interesting thing for me, when seeing the photo above, was that those T-38s were mounted with a similar type of structural support on the exhaust, same as #1 here.
Since the museum closed several years ago, could this be one of those T-38s?
Saludos,
Tulio
The interesting thing for me, when seeing the photo above, was that those T-38s were mounted with a similar type of structural support on the exhaust, same as #1 here.
Since the museum closed several years ago, could this be one of those T-38s?
Saludos,
Tulio
Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:41 pm
JBrawner wrote:ok since me and steve were talking earlier and he hasnt said anything about it nor has anybody else noticed... im going to point it out steve. any notice the blue painters tape towards the nose?
I saw this new addition last month when there for my son's drifting stuff but I didn't notice the painter's tape either.....of course it is in a considerably taller place than me....LOL
Last I saw the plane before this "erection" it was lying on the ground up against a hangar in blue and gray camo scheme.....well I suspect it is the same as that one is gone.
Anybody know if the Huey is going down the road to the museum???
Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:45 pm
LadyO2Pilot wrote:
Last I saw the plane before this "erection" it was lying on the ground up against a hangar in blue and gray camo scheme.....well I suspect it is the same as that one is gone.
Anybody know if the Huey is going down the road to the museum???
The camo scheme would then likely rule out an ex-Owatonna T-38, since those had T-Birds colors.
Saludos,
Tulio