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 Post subject: TEST PIC..
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Anyone know the story about this test ?


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P & W T-34 test bed


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Ok I worked for Pratt all those years and I was clueless when I seen this pick,guess you learn something every day thanks. I bet thats the Connecticut river too..


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Yep..Liberty Belle..too bad they de-modified her. When someone gets serious about resurrecting the
Napier Sabre, it'd be handy to have such a flying test-bed... :wink:

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three more of N5111N

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and another testbed.... N6694C

1965 - three-bladed prop

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sometime later - four-bladed prop

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Anyone have any pictures of her at Bradley after the tornado ripped her up?


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Anyone have any pictures of her at Bradley after the tornado ripped her up?

nooooooo......pleeeze.... :cry:

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Anyone have any pictures of her at Bradley after the tornado ripped her up?

nooooooo......pleeeze.... :cry:


Yes, I would like to see how far Liberty Belle came! I never saw the aftermath, but only read about it.


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Anyone have any pictures of her at Bradley after the tornado ripped her up?

nooooooo......pleeeze.... :cry:


Yes, I would like to see how far Liberty Belle came! I never saw the aftermath, but only read about it.

Naw..You gotta see it too.."brace yourself, Tilly" :shock: ...'Scuse me for a bit..I seem to have got something
in my eye..I'll be right back.. :cry:

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I'll bet those P & W mech's liked working on those Wright 1820's?

I see that they removed the hydomatics and threw on Curtis Wright electrics.

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I'll bet those P & W mech's liked working on those Wright 1820's?

I see that they removed the hydomatics and threw on Curtis Wright electrics.


Actually, this photo is not the Pratt test bed N5111N. It is the 5-engine test bed that Curtiss-Wright used, that's why the coinversion to the Curtiss props. N5111N had Ham Stans!

I hav elots of pics of the B-17 after the tornado, the only problem is they are slides and I haven't scanned them in yet. I'll try to dig out some.

"Liberty Belle" is pretty much a new aircraft. There was two steel beams put into the B-17 when it was converted to a test bed. they ran the length of the fuselage and helped to strengthen it for the massive engine up front. I understand that the aircraft had so much stress cracks in it, that it was just about a new re-build.

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That last photo, isn't that the Wright turbo prop conversion??
I have only seen one picture of the B-17 test engine aircraft, with a round-bulb like structure placed on the nose, when the test engine was removed...and that is just a photo of it sitting on the ground...I would like to know if there are any photos of this onfiguration while in flight??

Another conversion of the B-17 I would like to see more pictures of, are of the illfated B-17F that had all four Wrights replaced by the Rolls-Royce Turbo Dart engines....


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It seems that this particular "Test" 3350 may not have passed the test?
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airnutz wrote:
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Anyone have any pictures of her at Bradley after the tornado ripped her up?

nooooooo......pleeeze.... :cry:


Yes, I would like to see how far Liberty Belle came! I never saw the aftermath, but only read about it.


I asked the same question a while back and I think Jerry O'Neill posted this on WIX for me.

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two more of N6694C

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1967 - Gary, that one ?

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