Warbird Information Exchange

About fifteen years ago we were cutting up some old conveyors and one of them had some Marsden or perferated steel planking for the planks of the cat walk. I saved a piece about six feet long. It was a little rusty and pitted but I thought it would make a neat picture frame for several small warbird photos. Like my ride in Miss Mitchell last year, my son's first airplane ride in a DC 3 painted up to look like a C 47 that was at Holman field in St. Paul with FI FI in the early eighties, ect, ect. I know I stood it up in the corner of the shed. It must have evaporated. Hugh

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My father was a a/c armorer 7th aaf 318FG 73FS

I foolishly stashed a BT-13 oil tank at work when I moved out of town years ago. When I got back the next season it was long gone. Wasn't even smart enough to have saved the cap.

Dan

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Defending Stearmans on WIX since Jeff started badmouthing them back in 2005.

I was talking to a friend who has restored several Stearmans over the last 40 years...he now routinely repairs parts that are in worse shape than he used to throw away.
Back in the day, if a seat had rust, he'd chuck it. Today they're rare so its repair time.
He told me this while he was machining part of a new control stick.

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.
Note political free signature.
I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

I was young and dumb in the early 1990's. I was dating a girl from south of Saginaw, Michigan. We went up to visit her mother for Christmas. She had just bought 15 acres of land with a huge old barn on it. That weekend her mother decided we were going to clean out the barn and burn the barn down because it was "old". I went in there and it was full of old aviation stuff. I still have a few hydraulic emergency hand pumps that I found in there. The prize, that I thought was junk at the time, was the fuselage of a Curtiss Jenny. There was no engine and most of the fabric was gone. The termites had really done a good job eating most of it, so in my 20 year old wisdom, I decided to burn it because it was beyond restoration. Looking back I can't believe that me, the king of save every pile of junk out there, through the Jenny on the burn pile. At the time I never considered that all of the little metal brackets would be priceless to someone. What an idiot.

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The nose art/aviation artist and general lunatic from Houston, Texas http://www.jasonbarnettartist.com

sold my b -26 marauder pilot's wheel to a guy in france, his father in law flew b - 26''s for the free french, so i sold it, but know it went to a good home to be appreciated.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!