Museum of Flight B-29 out on display (kind of)

Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:17 pm

spookythecat wrote:Merry Xmas!

Follow this link to my pictures of T Square 54 taken in April of 2009.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythec ... tsquare54/

And for an early New Years gift, Boeing Bee from the same day.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythec ... boeingbee/

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. It's hard to find anything on the B-29 (T-Square 54) especially interior shots...

Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:35 pm

spookythecat wrote:Merry Xmas!

Follow this link to my pictures of T Square 54 taken in April of 2009.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythec ... tsquare54/

And for an early New Years gift, Boeing Bee from the same day.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spookythec ... boeingbee/

Thanks for the post. A very good way to spend the evening. :drink3:

Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:43 pm

Boeing Bee (lame name) is a movie star having been in 'The 1000 Plane Raid', 'TORA-TORA-TORA' and the really awful 'MEMPHIS BELLE'. It's dramatic and unplanned accident in T-T-T was stupid luck on everyone's part. The airplane had been painted O.D. over Gray before leaving the West Coast to appear in the film. As they were approaching Hawai'i the right gear wouldn't extend. The Director in a stroke of inspiration had a camera crew hurriedly set up a couple of cameras to shoot the approach and landing, and the gear up landing in the movie was the result.

The one that did the one-wheel landing was 44-85840, N620L:

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17regis ... 85840.html

And I'm not crazy about Boeing Bee, either. Its name as a wartime training ship was Patricia; wish they'd put that back along with its training codes since there aren't any other 17s currently marked that way.

Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:37 pm

Unfortunately, the restoration sponsor gets to dicate colors and markings which is why the FG-1D fished out of Lake Washington went from glossy Sea Blue when it crashed to tricolored. The sponsor of 17W's restoration thought Boeing Bee was 'appropriate'

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Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:38 pm

He who has the money, makes the rules

Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:39 pm

Hey Inspector which Corsair is that? The one in the MOF is all gloss blue. Is there another?

Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:41 pm

Everyone eat, drink, and dress, errrrrr I mean be merry!!! :drink3:

Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:05 pm

Then it's been repainted, it was three tone and I haven't ventured to MoF for many many moons. and Chris I thank you for that , Chris B.thanks for clearing up the T-T-T information, the widely spread word had it that the airplane was 17W.
That's what I love about this place, you can count on getting the straight info from someone who's more in the know and then we can make our own information corrections (GEEZ! Now I've got to turn over the compost pile again :lol: