Holidays are over ... time to go back to school ...

[Mark Allen M]

... for some of you anyway. Time to go back to learning something ...

Burgard Vocational High School located in Buffalo, New York, USA.













































































Photo source: Niagara Aerospace Museum archives

[Clifford Bossie]

So what became of the Jug?

[Tiger Tim]

The warbirds are neat and all, but check out that Consolidated Fleetster... and that Alexander Bullet... And that wire-braced (Jenny?) fuselage in the rafters!

[Sasquatch]

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[Chris Brame]

From a thread I posted a while back:
From UNO Criss Library archive on Flickr: "The University of Nebraska at Omaha - Students work hard on the plane in their aircraft engineering studies. 1949."


"Angels Flight Founders Meeting. 1952." Looks like it's in worse shape:


"Plane Being Removed 1953." And probably off to the scrapyard (tiny photo, I enlarged it):


"The University of Nebraska at Omaha - Omaha University's Aircraft Engineering Lab. 1940s."

[APG85]

Fantastic stuff...!

[mas]

Wow! What a fantastic collection of equipment in the school at that time. One can sure see the Curtiss influence. I thought the Spartan School back in the mid-70s had some cool stuff but this takes the cake! Does it say anywhere what year the pics were taken?

I'd be interested to know the disposition of the P-40 and P-36. Also, in the pic where they are working on a wing, isn't that a fixed gear Hawk 75 wing? I know it's hard to tell with B&W film but the roundel in the wingtip looks to be very light in color, like the Argentine Hawks.

Mike

[Pat Carry]

Great pics.

[p51]

Wow, imagine the hangar flying that was done in those fighters when nobody else was around...
Many years ago I saw photos of a similar setup, where a almost complete B-25 fuselage was inside a classroom setting. I'd love to know where that was but would assume the Mitchell was turned into pots and pans later on.

[tulsaboy]

Mike, if you think the Spartan School was cool in the 1970's, you should have seen it in the 1940's. I've got some pretty good images of that era...

kevin

[hang the expense]

Wow! What a fantastic collection of equipment in the school at that time. One can sure see the Curtiss influence. I thought the Spartan School back in the mid-70s had some cool stuff but this takes the cake! Does it say anywhere what year the pics were taken?

I'd be interested to know the disposition of the P-40 and P-36. Also, in the pic where they are working on a wing, isn't that a fixed gear Hawk 75 wing? I know it's hard to tell with B&W film but the roundel in the wingtip looks to be very light in color, like the Argentine Hawks.

Mike

Good eye Mike and it sure looks like argentine roundel. Thats also the stab for the hawk behind it.thats the best upclose pick I have seen of the gear mount and fuel bay.I would love a copy of that picture.