The"Weathervane" F6F Hellcat in the news...

Dan K · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:09 pm

c90brian wrote:

...The prop does not turn as the plane belongs to a private citizen who would not agree to allow the engine to be removed to allow the prop to be disconnected, remounted to spin...

This F6F belongs to a private citizen? And it's a pole dancer?

You wouldn't be pullin' Ol' Dan's leg now, wouldja?

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7795

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 987

C VEICH wrote:

c90brian wrote:

Here's a better pic of it..

Good timing or Photoshop?

Just a bit altered. The water tower is about a mile to the south and Air Force One would be buzzing I-95 in that position. Still cool photo.

Chappie

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2626

I took this pic in 03 (where does the time go?).
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/f6fregis ... 77722.html

c90brian · **Joined:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:57 pm **Posts:** 4

That's not my pic, it's from the NAF Facebook page. I haven't been back to Andrews since 1993. And that is definitely photoshopped. from the angle of the pic, there is no way AF1 would be and that bank and pitch angle and be that small.. anyhoo.

c90brian · **Joined:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:57 pm **Posts:** 4

No sir, when it broke off in '92, we had to secure permission from the owner to modify it to spin. that is owned, or was at the time, by a private citizen..

SaxMan · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:40 pm

Yes, it's a really bad photochop job at that. That water tower has never said "Navy" on it and it wouldn't be visible from that part of the base at that angle.

I played a gig at Andrews a couple of years back. While we were setting up, Air Force One was practicing touch and goes. What struck me as unusual was how quiet the plane was. I've been twice the distance from planes landing at Reagan National as I was when I was on base at Andrews, yet those planes were significantly noisier...on smaller and less engines.

CraigBirkhold · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:51 pm **Posts:** 64

Hi! I just took a tour of Westpac Restorations in Colorado Springs this past weekend and they have a handful of F6F hellcats in storage waiting for someone to sign on for purchase and restoration by them. They already have a body jig ready and I am sure they would do a great job at a restoration. The aircraft were former target drones. So why bother pulling the one off the pole at Andrews when you can call Colorado and get one already sitting at the shop.

Left Seat · **Joined:** Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:44 pm **Posts:** 151

"Hellcat on a stick"

http://www.dcmilitary.com/article/20120413/NEWS09/704139947/air-force-reservist-completes-upgrades-on-mannequin-pilot

http://www.andrews.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123292298

Marauderman26 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:05 am **Posts:** 167

Mark Allen M wrote:

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Well said MR. Allen.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7795

Marauderman26 wrote:

Mark Allen M wrote:

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Well said MR. Allen.

Ha! That was back when very little I said was well said.

So what's the latest on this Hellcat?

airnutz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:31 am

Mark Allen M wrote:

Marauderman26 wrote:

Mark Allen M wrote:

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Well said MR. Allen.

Ha! That was back when very little I said was well said.

Hmmmnnn....I thought you were just having your period that day! Bwaaw..haaw..haaaw...Sorry, I'll get me coat. :hide:

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