NEAM -A few old photos
Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:59 pm
Re: NEAM -A few old photos
Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:26 pm
Nice pics!
Looks like it was around 1985-86. We were stripping and painting the Albatross then.
Majority of those airframes in you're pics are no longer at NEAM.
Short Sealand, Regulaus II, B-47, B-17, PBY, AM-1, F-8, Tomahawk, BT-13A, and the Kaman UTTAS wooden mock-up are all with other museums...or flying (B-17) except the Kaman mock-up.
That fell apart and was burned as a training aid for the airport CFR.
Jerry
Looks like it was around 1985-86. We were stripping and painting the Albatross then.
Majority of those airframes in you're pics are no longer at NEAM.
Short Sealand, Regulaus II, B-47, B-17, PBY, AM-1, F-8, Tomahawk, BT-13A, and the Kaman UTTAS wooden mock-up are all with other museums...or flying (B-17) except the Kaman mock-up.
That fell apart and was burned as a training aid for the airport CFR.
Jerry
Re: NEAM -A few old photos
Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:31 pm
I was going to say 85-86 as well. Having major flashbacks to my time down at TCI in Windsor. The one form of recreation I could afford in those days was wandering around the museum.
Re: NEAM -A few old photos
Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:27 am
Cool photos... what happened to the PBY and the Mauler?
Cheers,
Richard
Cheers,
Richard
Re: NEAM -A few old photos
Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:34 am
Richard,
The Mauler is at Tillamook, and the PBY was sold to Kermit Week's along with our MGM wind machine A-24 Dauntless.
Their sale helped to pay for our restoration buildin, which was desperately needed.
The PBY was stock military, never civilianized, and had all the military racks in place, but it was a stripped out hulk. We kept a coating of oil on the airframe to protect it a bit. When some of the guys from Avalon (PBY operators in Canada) stopped in after the 1985 P&W show and crawled all over the airframe, they said the hull was in the best shape that they had ever seen. Kermit was planning to use that as the basis for restoring a PBY and I know he has another one, but I don't know the status at this point.
Jerry
The Mauler is at Tillamook, and the PBY was sold to Kermit Week's along with our MGM wind machine A-24 Dauntless.
Their sale helped to pay for our restoration buildin, which was desperately needed.
The PBY was stock military, never civilianized, and had all the military racks in place, but it was a stripped out hulk. We kept a coating of oil on the airframe to protect it a bit. When some of the guys from Avalon (PBY operators in Canada) stopped in after the 1985 P&W show and crawled all over the airframe, they said the hull was in the best shape that they had ever seen. Kermit was planning to use that as the basis for restoring a PBY and I know he has another one, but I don't know the status at this point.
Jerry
Re: NEAM -A few old photos
Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:15 pm
The museum sure has come along way with the B-29. Congrats to everyone involved with that big project.
Re: NEAM -A few old photos
Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:02 am
Who got the B-47? I remember it was still there on my first visit in 2001, and the sign said it had been too badly twisted by the tornado to be repaired.
Richard
Richard
Re: NEAM -A few old photos
Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:26 am
Hill AFB Museum. It took a while to dismantle and transport it. For a bit of time the fuselage sat over at the CT ANG base waiting for a C-5 to pick it up.
It was a good thing, since it now was going to be restored and repaired. Some times you have to pass the ball.
Jerry
It was a good thing, since it now was going to be restored and repaired. Some times you have to pass the ball.
Jerry