Warbird Information Exchange

Some nice shots here...

http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1b/bombers/bomber.html

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Cool stuff. It is always a busy few days when the CF birds come to KAGC. They use our ramp during their visit. That tail stinger was built in the hangar at Air Heritage from scratch. I just wish they would have kept the names off of "909".

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

alot of accentuated detail to those pics & great angles too!!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

those are great pics.

B

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Who chose the interior colors on WITCHCRAFT? try impsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/02
Nice article with great detail info on colors used during WW2

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The interior colors on the B-24 were preselected by Consolidated.

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I would be careful about using the article on interior colors found at impsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/02 as gospel. It seems to rely on speculation and hear say as opposed to actual documentation.

I find it to be inconsistent and contains many statements that are not accurate.

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Actually that tail stinger was built at American Aero. It was the previous one that was built by the guys Air Heritage. Notice the slight difference in color from the paint on the main part of the aircraft being faded compared to the newer paint on the tail. There are pictures on here somewhere of what happened to the old one, and a few pictures of the tail that was on there during the rebuild of the stinger.

Is that from when it did battle with the fire truck? I did not realize that the stinger was replaced due to that if that is the case. THat is kind of sad as I remember all of of the hard work just a few guys put into to makeing that stinger.

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Chris Henry
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I believe a dumpster hit it during a windstorm in Ohio in September of 2005. It was covered on the WIX if you want to do a search...

It was in 2006, and it was not in Ohio. I believe it was in Billings. MT, or Cody, WY (I can not remember which one). Not sure what it hit for sure, but most likely a firetruck. It happend overnight during a wind storm/tornado and it jumped the chocks.

The stinger was totally rebuilt by American Aero at that time, and reinstalled for the 2007 season.

Doh~
That is correct, the September 2005 event was the hail storm hitting the CAF Arizona Wing's B-17..
I should have checked my facts first, I guess my chasing around my two snot monsters is bringing on old age faster than I'm ready for..

Great shots, but in the B-25 photo's you are looking from the forward hatch through the crawl way to the nose, not the back....
On the "H" model, that is where the 75mm went..

Lynn