Tondelayo at Kissimmee

JimH · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:58 pm

Tondelayo has arrived at Kissimmee to offer flight experiences! Thom Richard and myself flew her from New Smyrna Beach to ISM yesterday. She is ready to go, prices are still $400 for the front and $325 for the waist gun positions. She will be living at Warbird Adventures for the time being and we want to make the most of her while she is here. Stop in and see us if you are in the area. How many places can you fly a T-6 and fly in a B-25 in the same day?? Pretty cool opportunity.

jim harley

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Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:03 pm

Good to hear Jim! Love that B-25.

Is she not pulling her own weight on the national tour?

JimH · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:45 pm

Nope, thats not the reason, she is actually missed on tour. It was and still is the intention to bring the 262 out (please don't ask cause I don't know when) and the expense of flying all that hardware around the country is enormous, not to mention ramp space. We are going to run her out of Warbird Adventures while we have the chance. These airplanes need to be run and flown and what a great venue to stage out of!

jim

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:52 pm

Hey Jim I worked on her years ago when she was "Hoosier Honey", and have plenty of time just sitting in the pilots seat adn taking it all in. Man what a plane. What happened to the top turret? It had it back in the day.

Holedigger · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:29 pm

Dang! So close and yet so far! Blasted rotten economy!

Third one down may look familiar!

Chuck Gardner · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:10 pm

Where are the drip pans?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:37 pm

I'll be in Tampa in 2 weeks but not sure if I'll be able to make it over.

Holedigger · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:46 pm

Tampa! That's just across the bay! Drop me a line, we'll have to do a brew or something! :drink3:

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:54 pm

I'll see what I can do I'll be in Tampa twice actually for about 5 days total.
I'll be up in Homosassa chasing the gators from my mom's backyard and
trying to deplete the local fish population the remainder.

Holedigger · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:00 pm

Just remember, if you grab a gator by the tail, the other end has teeth! Homosassa is a pretty area, I've camped up that way.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:04 pm

My mom lives on a canal just off the Crystal River. Spitting distance from Monkey Island.

henning · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:07 pm

Chuuuuuuckkkkkk....

wheeeeeerrrrrrrrreeeeeeee'ddddddd thoooosssseeeee drip pans go,,,,,,,,, both of them... :-)

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dripping on that pretty ramp are they!

:-)

JimH · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:41 pm

No drip pans! yet We parked between the other stains.

jim

bomberflight · **Posted:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:59 am

Hi Jim ! If you can give me an idea of how long you guys will be there in Kissimmee I'll put something up for you on my website

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:29 am

One of the coolest times of my life was working with the crew to get it running again after it sat for many years at the Beaver County Airport.
I went back and took a look at some pics I had of it back in the day, and it without a doubt had the top turret back then.

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