Warbird Information Exchange

Could one of you who has the book please quote the passage in the USAF Museum section about the Keystone bomber remains - with serial numbers from FY 1929, I think - that were supposed to go into a composite restoration? I never had a copy of the book but I read it in the bookstore a lot .

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Photobucket playing up with my albums today, however:-

From fourth revised edition of 1972.

Keystone LB-7 bomber 1929-35, serials 29-13 and 29-16 (parts of - for building of one machine).

That's all.

PeterA

For those who don't have one, there are a number of copies of mostly the 4th edition (both paperback and hard cover) on e-Bay and Amazon, running from $3.25 to (choke) $59.20.

[quote="k5083"]There was a copy of the 4th ed in the local library when I was growing up. I borrowed it so many times that they should have just let me keep it. I finally found a copy of my own in a bookstore in Los Angeles around 1990. This wasn't a used bookstore, the copy was new and had been sitting on the shelf for 16 years. The clerk was so embarrassed about how old it was and eager to get rid of it that she gave me a discount off the cover price. I happily accepted knowing it was already a collectors item. Eventually I picked up 2 of the other editions.

Whether it is useful depends on what you want to do, of course, but besides the enjoyment of looking through it for a 1974 snapshot of the vintage scene, it provides much information that the newer warbird directories and registry do not. Mainly in the scope of aircraft covered; civil vintage types, and military types that have not flown as warbirds. If you go to a place like the Musee de l'Air or NASM or Rhinebeck that has had mostly the same planes for many years, and you want to look up their IDs to annotate your photos, the newer guides will not help you identify the WWI replicas, the civil stuff, or most of the jets, and often the museum web sites lack much of the info. One glance at Hunt and you're done.

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I think that the nearest modern equivalent to Leslie Hunt's books (and he truly was a pioneer) is the Aviation Museums and Collections series by Bob Ogden, published in the UK by Air-Britain Historians Ltd.

He has produced three volumes covering the whole world: North America, Mainland Europe, and 'The Rest ' , the only omissions are Britain and Ireland , which are very well documented separately by the Wrecks and Relics series.

The main difference in theme to Leslie Hunt's books is that only aircraft in 'preservation' are included; so no scrapyards, fire dumps, airliner graveyards, hangar queens or simply 'pushed out into the weeds'. But collections like NASM, Musee de L'Air and Rhinebeck are very well covered.

[quote="k5083"]There was a copy of the 4th ed in the local library when I was growing up. I borrowed it so many times that they should have just let me keep it. I finally found a copy of my own in a bookstore in Los Angeles around 1990. This wasn't a used bookstore, the copy was new and had been sitting on the shelf for 16 years. The clerk was so embarrassed about how old it was and eager to get rid of it that she gave me a discount off the cover price. I happily accepted knowing it was already a collectors item. Eventually I picked up 2 of the other editions.

Whether it is useful depends on what you want to do, of course, but besides the enjoyment of looking through it for a 1974 snapshot of the vintage scene, it provides much information that the newer warbird directories and registry do not. Mainly in the scope of aircraft covered; civil vintage types, and military types that have not flown as warbirds. If you go to a place like the Musee de l'Air or NASM or Rhinebeck that has had mostly the same planes for many years, and you want to look up their IDs to annotate your photos, the newer guides will not help you identify the WWI replicas, the civil stuff, or most of the jets, and often the museum web sites lack much of the info. One glance at Hunt and you're done.

August[/quote]


I think that the nearest modern equivalent to Leslie Hunt's books (and he truly was a pioneer) is the Aviation Museums and Collections series by Bob Ogden, published in the UK by Air-Britain Historians Ltd.

He has produced three volumes covering the whole world: North America, Mainland Europe, and 'The Rest ' , the only omissions are Britain and Ireland , which are very well documented separately by the Wrecks and Relics series.

The main difference in theme to Leslie Hunt's books is that only aircraft in 'preservation' are included; so no scrapyards, fire dumps, airliner graveyards, hangar queens or simply 'pushed out into the weeds'. But collections like NASM, Musee de L'Air and Rhinebeck are very well covered.