Warbird Information Exchange

... for some of you anyway. Time to go back to learning something ...

Burgard Vocational High School located in Buffalo, New York, USA.













































































Photo source: Niagara Aerospace Museum archives

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So what became of the Jug?

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Had God intended for man to fly behind inline engines, Pratt & Whitney would have made them.

CB

http://www.angelfire.com/dc/jinxx1/Desrt_Wings.html

The warbirds are neat and all, but check out that Consolidated Fleetster... and that Alexander Bullet... And that wire-braced (Jenny?) fuselage in the rafters!

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From a thread I posted a while back:
From UNO Criss Library archive on Flickr: "The University of Nebraska at Omaha - Students work hard on the plane in their aircraft engineering studies. 1949."


"Angels Flight Founders Meeting. 1952." Looks like it's in worse shape:


"Plane Being Removed 1953." And probably off to the scrapyard (tiny photo, I enlarged it):


"The University of Nebraska at Omaha - Omaha University's Aircraft Engineering Lab. 1940s."

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Fantastic stuff...!

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Wow! What a fantastic collection of equipment in the school at that time. One can sure see the Curtiss influence. I thought the Spartan School back in the mid-70s had some cool stuff but this takes the cake! Does it say anywhere what year the pics were taken?

I'd be interested to know the disposition of the P-40 and P-36. Also, in the pic where they are working on a wing, isn't that a fixed gear Hawk 75 wing? I know it's hard to tell with B&W film but the roundel in the wingtip looks to be very light in color, like the Argentine Hawks.

Mike

Great pics.

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Wow, imagine the hangar flying that was done in those fighters when nobody else was around...
Many years ago I saw photos of a similar setup, where a almost complete B-25 fuselage was inside a classroom setting. I'd love to know where that was but would assume the Mitchell was turned into pots and pans later on.

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Mike, if you think the Spartan School was cool in the 1970's, you should have seen it in the 1940's. I've got some pretty good images of that era...

kevin

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FOUND the elusive DT-built B-24! Woo-hoo!!!

Good eye Mike and it sure looks like argentine roundel. Thats also the stab for the hawk behind it.thats the best upclose pick I have seen of the gear mount and fuel bay.I would love a copy of that picture.

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