Barbie III in Denver ...
Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:57 pm
Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:08 pm
She has been sold and now based in Colorado ??
Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:27 pm
She is not based in Denver... Just a summer stop.
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Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:14 am
Does she have the complete cannon? When I saw her at Mount Comfort five years or so ago, they just had the end of the barrel attached to a backing plate. I believe they said they planned to intall the whole cannon, if they could find one. I'm not complaining (she's gorgeous) just curious.
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Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:38 am
I love it!!!
More Barbie III goodness.
Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:04 am
I hope to get pictures of her today with Colorado mountains in the distance.
Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:50 am
Great shots Blue 
Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:28 am
I think the problem with putting a real cannon in would come down to availability: almost none existent, and weight, approx. 900 pounds.
I think it might be easier and weigh less to make a replica 75mm out of wood than to install a real one.
I think the NMNSAF only has an experimental 75mm cannon with an automatic feed, hence, not the original G/H model canon installation.
I don't think I'd put 900 extra pound in the nose of my aircraft. Even NEAM has a replica barrel end in their B-25H and display the actual 75mm cannon outside next to the aircraft so you can see what it looks like and how big it is.
Jerry
I think it might be easier and weigh less to make a replica 75mm out of wood than to install a real one.
I think the NMNSAF only has an experimental 75mm cannon with an automatic feed, hence, not the original G/H model canon installation.
I don't think I'd put 900 extra pound in the nose of my aircraft. Even NEAM has a replica barrel end in their B-25H and display the actual 75mm cannon outside next to the aircraft so you can see what it looks like and how big it is.
Jerry
Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:21 pm
Good points, especially about the weight. I suppose a lightweight wood and plastic replica would more than suffice, not that you can see much of it when it's installed anyway.
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Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:07 pm
Another Good day today... I will be sad to see this one leave the Denver area this later this summer.
Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:23 pm
Wicked Awsome!! 
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Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:24 pm
What a beautiful machine
Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:38 am
She needs to hang out in Seattle for a summer
Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:50 am
That is one clean looking B25. That short nose looks a little weird somehow. Too used to the "Glass" nose ones I guess . Pugnacious? Yeah thats a better word!