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


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:29 am 
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Wonderful photos to be seen. :drink3:

LINK -- https://imgur.com/a/ivVfY

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Those are great. Thanks for the link. A tremendous amount of work was done to every Fort that came thru there. Question: what is the flexible hose as seen inside the nose piece? It looks like vacuum to my real old GE vacuum.

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A really great set of pics, it makes you think about the quality of work and attention to detail that everyone had to show to get the job done. Great people.

I never realised that the Cheyenne tail turret mod involved cutting the original tailcone, always thought it was fixed at a pre-existing joint. Steady hands...


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The hose in the nose is a defroster for the bombing window.

Image9FFD486D-0946-4AAC-A0BA-D06EC4136EDD by tanker622001, on Flickr


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Wonderful photos to be seen. :drink3:

LINK -- https://imgur.com/a/ivVfY



Thanks for sharing the link. My maternal grandmother worked for United in Cheyenne working on B-17's during the war.


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Great photos! Interesting/sad to read the histories of the tail numbers I could read.

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