Meanwhile back in High School ...

[Mark Allen M]

Fortunate times for kids ...


Uintah High School students working on a Curtiss XP-37 (Vernal Utah) c 1943-1944


Uintah High School students working on a Curtiss XP-37 (Vernal Utah) c 1943-1944


Uintah High School students working on a Curtiss XP-37 (Vernal Utah) c 1943-1944


Miller Vocational High School (Minneapolis, Minn) c 1944


Curtiss P-36 Hawk at Burgard High School (Buffalo, New York) 1944


Republic P-47 at Burgard High School (Buffalo, New York) 1944


Vocational High School faculty members who fly talk shop.


Army Surplus Equipment Given to Vocational High School.


Aviation artist Ron Cole portraying the second Curtiss Comet (XP-37) as it looked in the spring of 1939

[phil65]

Look at all those students...

Phil

[Joe Scheil]

I think that might be an XP-47.....it looks like it has a door on the other side.

Yikes that's cool!

[Chris Brame]

Vocational High School faculty members who fly talk shop.


Army Surplus Equipment Given to Vocational High School.

This brought back a memory. I dug through all the Minneapolis Vocational High School yearbooks available on the Classmates site and found this in the 1953 yearbook:

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Same P-35? I checked the NMUSAF site, and my memory was confirmed:

The aircraft was restored by the 133rd Tactical Airlift Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, with assistance from students of the Minneapolis Vocational Institute.

So, same P-35? Maybe - it only shows up in the '53 yearbook; I'm not sure where it went between then and the early '70s. Only thirteen yearbooks from 1952 to 1970 are available. Can anyone verify?

ETA: The museum's P-35 is s/n 36-404. Zooming in on the first photo:

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Could that be the top of a "4" on the fin? Hmm...

[jdvoss]

The Biplane appears to be a Curtiss design and I would venture to say that it is O2C or possibly a F8C... circa 1934. Does it still exist??

JDVoss
www.fuselagecodes.com

[wendovertom]

I wonder what became of the XP-37 out here in Utah? That would be a heck of a "barn find" if at some point the shop teacher said "enough" and hauled it out of the school to make room for cars.

Tom P.

[Mark Allen M]

B-18 Bomber 1943 Central Utah Vocational School.




Provo High School Shop c 1943.


Central Utah Vocational School.


Central Utah Vocational School Aircraft Mechanics Class 1943.

[Chris Brame]

Great B-18 shots! Found the Utah Valley University archive and the original photo; zoomed all the way in but couldn't read the data block . Baugher didn't have any Bolos listed as Class 26 or reclaimed at Wendover; looks like a record card search would be needed. Thanks again Mark!

[Pat Carry]

Thanks for the photos, Mark

[wendovertom]

Thanks Mark! Those are great shots. I will have to root through the paper records we have at the museum. I don't recall seeing anything about B-18s other than a quick mention of them being used as trainers right around 1940 - 1941, and then only as, "B-18's trained here. . ".

Hopefully the WIX brain trust can track down what happened to these airframes - I'm sure scrapped in the end but that XP-37 in Vernal . . I can dream its in a barn out there right?! LOL.

Tom P.

[Mark Allen M]

Looks to be a combat veteran Mustang?


Students and the Aviation Club's P-51B at Coral Gables (Fla.)

[LysanderUK]

A fascinating set of pictures. I would agree that the P51B looks like a combat vet - D-Day stripes, the remains of a wing root I.D. stripe and the Malcolm Hood all point to previous service in Europe.

[Mark Allen M]

North American F-51D Mustang, #4744FF-744 with post-1947 insignia on display by students in South Park PA.


North American F-82 on display for students to study.


Trinity High School Victory Corps 1942 Illinois

[Chris Brame]

Found another one. Near-new FM-2 in Salinas (CA) Union High School's 1946 yearbook:

[mike furline]

The P-51D on display in South Park "North American F-51D Mustang, #4744FF-744 with post-1947 insignia on display by students in South Park PA." was on display for the Allegheny County Fair. The date of the photo is ca. 1950. PA-ANG had Mustangs at PIT, possibly brought over from there.