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Gary Thanks for the reply I do beleive they are some variation of a R-3350. Perhaps some one else could help us out with an ID Carl
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what does this museum have thats on display???

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They're turbo compound 3350s, but I am not certain what they came from. The sheet metal is similar to that found on Constellations and Neptunes. (I think maybe more like a Neptune.) We need someone who knows something about reciprocating engines to solve the mystery.

My personal choice to 'rescue' would be that F-84.
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what does this museum have thats on display???

Tuskegee Air Exhibit with BT-13 and AT-6. Korean exhibit With F86 and MIG 15 and the nose of the B-25. I will try and find the list of other a/c and post it

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So the BT-'s out back are extras????? Too bad, thats some nice trade material.

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They're turbo compound 3350s, but I am not certain what they came from. The sheet metal is similar to that found on Constellations and Neptunes. (I think maybe more like a Neptune.) We need someone who knows something about reciprocating engines to solve the mystery.

My personal choice to 'rescue' would be that F-84.
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As far as I know it belongs to a man who had a small museum in Birmingham on hwy 79 and it has been stored there since the his death.

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A few of what is parked out Birmingham International Airport across from the Annex. The fence screwed me outta getting som better pictures. Missing is a T-28, and the SR-71.

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Wasn't that F-100 on display at the NMUSAF years ago, before the one we have now was on display? Anyone else remember that?

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Not a bad collection, to bad its all outside.

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A few of what is parked out Birmingham International Airport across from the Annex. The fence screwed me outta getting som better pictures. Missing is a T-28, and the SR-71....


Gary We have an A- 12 never had a SR71

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my bad, looked like a 71 Black Bird to me, I dunn keep up with that guided rocketship

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Check out the nacelles and exhaust outlets on the MAAM Neptune here: http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=26019
They look similar to the pair in the storage area, no?

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Wasn't that F-100 on display at the NMUSAF years ago, before the one we have now was on display? Anyone else remember that?

I was about to ask the same thing. I was at NMUSAF last Monday, and was wondering whatever happened to that bird. It used to sit next to the B-36, but I haven't seen it since they rearranged everthing a few years ago.


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Wasn't that F-100 on display at the NMUSAF years ago, before the one we have now was on display? Anyone else remember that?

I was about to ask the same thing. I was at NMUSAF last Monday, and was wondering whatever happened to that bird. It used to sit next to the B-36, but I haven't seen it since they rearranged everthing a few years ago.


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From a paperback book I obtained on museum aircraft years ago:

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I thought that was her. I hope she gets indoors again.

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