Warbird Information Exchange

Whoa! Cool picture! I never knew they put anything other than a radial on the B-29 or B-50.

Another very interesting thread.Thanks for posting,Mark.

Here are a few shots of an engine change on Tanker 66 (ex-United Airlines DC-7 N6353C) at Fort Wainwright (Fairbanks) in July 1933.

The Butler Aircraft mechanics just arrived from an eventful trip up the Alcan Highway



It's always a problem finding a crane that's up to the job.Fortunately,Fairbanks is relatively well equipped with heavy equipment.



Here's another angle.Finding an empty engine stand can also be a problem away from the home base.



While I'm at it,here are a couple shots of some trouble-shooting on T&G's Tanker 115 (DC-7C) also at Fort Wainwright during the same time period.

The 'pissed off woman' (how is your misogyny aversion class coming along?) appears to be, based on her holding a mirror and flashlight, an Inspector (done that job, a bunch) and she is probably witnessing touques or another critical assembly point, and since she would be the first person the company and military would seek out if something went wrong, you can bet your patootie she's paying attention.

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Thx Larry, great stuff.

Bill sarcasm is usually one of my strong points

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Mark,
I love the pictures of the guys that kept them flying. How about posting pictures of sheetmetal guys. Keep up the great posts.

Randy Tait

I know, just having some lightweight fun witchaz!

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Here's a few.


14 May 1943 Mechanics of the 322nd Bomb Sq, 91st BG begin repairs to the vertical fin of B-17F 42-3057 (coded LG-N) following the mission to Keil, Germany.



SSgt. George R. Fierbaugh, Palestine, Wv, Looking Grimly Satisfied, Poses By His Finished Product -- An Anti-Mud Cover To Keep His Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Ball Turret Window clean


Sheet Metal Workers Patch The Underside Of A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Wing At The 91St Bomb Group Base In Bassingbourne, England On 7 August 1943.


Sheet Metal Workers Of The 480Th Service Sqdn, 59Th Service Group Repairing Flak Damage On The Wing Of A Boeing B-29


Sheet Metal Wokers Repair Wing Of A Boeing B-29 Superfortress Which Was Hit During The First Bombing Mission Over Tokyo, Japan. Saipan, Marianas Islands. November 1944.



Sheet Metal Shop Personnel Of The 478Th Air Service Squadron, Pose For The Photographer At An Air Base Somewhere In The South Pacific.


Sheet Metal Shop Of The 27Th Air Depot Repair Group, 5Th Service Command At Port Moresby, New Guinea. 15 March 1943


Sheet Metal Shop Of The 27Th Air Depot Repair Group, 5Th Service Command At Port Moresby, New Guinea. 15 March 1943.


Sgt. Albert Osborne Of The 382Nd Air Service Group'S Sheet Metal Shop Patches The Flak Holes On The Nose Of A Curtiss C-46 Of The 4Th Combat Cargo Group At Chittagong, India.


Men Learn Practical Work On Sheet Metal In A Classroom Of A U.S. Technical Training School In Warton, Lancaster, England, 1 April 1943.


Men At Work In The Sheet Metal Shop Of The 353Rd Fighter Group At Their Base In England. 4 September 1944.


General View Of The 27Th Air Depot Group Sheet Metal Shop, Showing The Men At Work. The Shop Was Located In Hangar #1 At The Port Moresby Air Depot, Papua, New Guinea.


Engineers Rivet Piece Of Sheet Metal With Riveting Gun.


Sheet Metal Workers Mend A Flak Punctured Rudder Of A Consolidated B-24 In England

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She does look pissed off! Nice thread Mark!

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Andrew King
Air Museum Director with no Museum to Direct
Open to Suggestions

The two guys doing the cowl repair is one scenario that always cracked me up. here's two guys looking like they are building the Golden Gate Bridge over a piece of metal thats the size of a page out of a newspaper.
I was taught to shoot by yourself until you ran out of reach, then get someone to help you do the last few fasteners.
I was always quicker riveting by myself, always trusted my bucker to do a good job, just as me being the bucker trusted my shooter. If I messed up, I wouldn't talk to myself for a week.
A colosssal waste of manpower to have two guys shooting and bucking on something the size of a sheet of paper.

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Mounting an engine on a B-29

Looks more like a B-50. That's clearly an R-4360

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Kevin Kearney
Vice President
Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation


C-54D "Spirit of Freedom" 43-17228
C-97 "Angel of Deliverance" 52-2718 (painted as YC-97A 45-59595)
C-54E/R5D-4 "Spirit of Freedom" 44-9144 BuNo 90414 (wfu April/2020)
http://www.spiritoffreedom.org

See my post on page 1

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Nice site for you grease monkeys ... if you can handle a slight bit of language confusion, it's got some real neat stuff. And not to worry about opening the link, if it works fine for me, you shouldn't have a problem.

http://www.bredow-web.de/Triebwerke_und ... otore.html

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Interesting to see those two C-48s, aka Douglas DST - Baugher shows two were surveyed at Del Valle; would these be ground-bound mechanics' trainers?

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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)

I'd say the sheet metal stuff needs its own thread. As this is an Engines .......... and more engines thread.

At the start of this photo essay, are the 1st and 3rd photos showing early cw3350"s with the forward cylinders exhaust pipes exiting to the front
and causing the overheating problem until they redesigned the heads to exit to the rear? I think I read somewhere that the 3350 uses the same cylinder as the 2600, just more of them.