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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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Mark D
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Hi All

Here is a recap in photos of the BT

Center Wing Section

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Wings

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Fuselage

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Cowls, Horizontals and Vertical fin

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Final Assembly

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The flying duties were performed by John Fuentes

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Buzz Cortese in his SNJ-5 with our own Rich Kolasa as the back seater

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RIch did a great job with the camera duties

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Ethan
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Wow! Great work.
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AvroAvian
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Beautiful workmanship!
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Steve Nelson
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FAN FREAKN' TASTIC!!

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Excellent workmanship! At any time were you tempted to cover one side in clear lexan so you could display that wonderful metalwork? It almost seems a shame to cover such well done work, very very nice job - everyone take a well deserved bow! :D :D :D

(how come the 'more smileys' doesn't work?)

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Dan K
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Wow is right!

Another job well done, Mark.

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dors
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absolutely gorgeous! hope to see it at Reading someday.

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Great work Mark!
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Outstanding work!! I wish you many years of enjoyable flying in this machine!

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Wow! Great job! I can feel the rivet gun and buck bar through those photo's.
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OUTSTANDING MARK!!!!!

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A grand resurrection! Beautiful machine!
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Absolutely fan-freakin'-tastic, a couple of those photos look like they were straight out of 1942. Your devotion to period accuracy is clearly evident, and this BT is by far one of the cleanest and prettiest examples I've ever seen.

"Well Done!" just doesn't seem strong enough to express how awesome this is, but it'll have to do since I'm not there to shout it in your ear. :D :D :D :D

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Congratulations! You've got a beautiful plane. 8)

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