Swamp Ghost status
Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:30 pm
Anyone know where its roosting these days? Still in the LA area?
Re: Swamp Ghost status
Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:33 am
MARC/Tallichet still retain a hangar and storage yard at Chino, so maybe in there?
Re: Swamp Ghost status
Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:36 am
bdk wrote:MARC/Tallichet still retain a hangar and storage yard at Chino, so maybe in there?
If so, I wonder what else might be in there!
Ryan
Re: Swamp Ghost status
Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:02 pm
RyanShort1 wrote:bdk wrote:MARC/Tallichet still retain a hangar and storage yard at Chino, so maybe in there?
If so, I wonder what else might be in there!
Ryan
I don't know what's there now, but I did a tour of all of Tallichet's hangars at Chino back in the early 80's. This was back when a lot of his stuff was still secret or at least semi-secret. Among other things I saw were: Helldiver, B-17, Corsair, P-51, SBD, Martin B-26, at least 6 or 7 P-39's, Avenger, several A-20's, several Beauforts/Blenheims, several Martin B-26 nose sections, major P-40 sections, about 7 or 8 Indian versions of the Gnat, and a host of airplane parts that would take forever to mention. I documented everything and took about 5 to 6 rolls of film of it all. One of these days, I'll take those pictures out of storage and post them here. I'll tell you that was almost like a religious experience, as I thought I had died and gone to "warbird Heaven"! Definitely one of the coolest things I've ever done in my warbird life!
