Warbird Information Exchange

Oshkosh 2011 - I really liked this one!

Nice John, must have been a short-stay visitor, I missed him.

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Roger Cain
www.sfahistory.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stearman/


We must limit politicians to two terms:
one in office and one in jail.

I like the AJ-2...recall an attempt being made some time in the 80s to get that aircraft, the last survivor of the type, preserved at Pensacola...did anything ever come of that or was the Savage ultimately scrapped-off? I know the only other Savage extant in the 70s, an XAJ-1 (in rough shape), was broken up at NAS Norfolk (iirc) around 1981.

The ex-CWH Fleet Fawn reverted to registration N8600 when it returned to the States. I last saw it at, I think, Geneseo--or maybe Muirkirk--in the mid-90s; at that point it wore 1930s US Navy markings, apparently representative of test Fleets operated from the USN's two large dirigibles Akron and Macon, ahead of the deployment of the purpose-built Curtiss F9Cs from the airships.

S.

The Savage flew to Pensacola back in the 1980's and was given a grey Navy paint job when it arrived. It's on outdoor display now, but hopefully it will be brought inside some day.
Jerry.

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Here is TB-25D s/n 41-29784, N2XD. Photos taken by me in late 1979 at Summit Airport, which is just outside of Middletown, Delaware. At that time, the owner was Richard DuPont. The B-25 is now displayed aboard the USS Yorktown, on "stilts" above the snack bar on the hangar deck and wearing a rather hideous OD green paint job. Sorry for the horrible photos. They were taken with a Pocket Instamatic camera and have suffered years of fading.

More info here: http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b25regis ... 29784.html





Here is CH-37B, N14463, shot by me in a storage area at New Castle Airport near Wilmington, Delaware, some time in the early 1980s as I recall:

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

More's the pity Jim 'awkins, more's the pity. This Mojave sleeps with the fishes now as a scuba attraction in a Bethlehem PA rock quarry.

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He bowls overhand...He is the most interesting man in the world.
"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF

OSH 2010...my favorite pigboat.

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Aha, The Turtle.......................I can hear the Calipso (sp?) music coming out of her now.

I don't have many in my personal collection but I'll offer up a few that fit the criteria.

Regarding the T-33 and the F-100 @ Bozeman MT, I believe you will find both were formerly owned / operated by Flight Systems Inc ,Mojave CA. I had the good fortune to be an employee of the company for many years after retiring fro the Air Force. The T-33's were former Canadian acft as were the F-86's we operated. The F-100's came from Denmark and Turkey. One of the pilots that ferried the "Huns" back to the US wrote an EXCELLENT article on the project and I have a copy of it.

Im amazed that 3 pages and not one yet surfaced of my favorite mustang. You guys are slacking!!

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

This one perhaps ?


In her element:

Here are a couple of shots taken at Jeffco Airport in Broomfield, CO ca. April 1983. I have a bunch taken of Tanker 121 the following year, but I'll have to dig them out and scan them.

SN

On this subject, I recently became aware that Western Airlines had a pair of NAA AT-6 Texans that were used in the Dakotas for a short time on scheduled services to a couple of very small airports. The reports I've seen say the planes were painted in the same scheme as the airliners, but I can't find any photos. Does anyone happen to have any of these planes? Certainly an odd "airliner" by any stretch.

There were 3, NC63082-4 but the last one was just used for spares. Don't know which this is:


NC63082 was msn 77-4371 formerly 41-382 and was sold to the RThaiAF and then on to Iran.
I have been unable to identify the other two.