Warbird Information Exchange

I'm sorry I opened that can of worms in someone else's "good" thread. If we need to have another Movie Belle thread locked lets start a new thread and leave this "projects" thread along so we might learn something new and cool.

Tim

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www.tailhookstudio.com

That B-17C project, was it going to be a full replica? Or is there a parts source.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

The bird will have alot of original parts.There are parts being made now that will really help the plane along as well as other B-17s.

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Hang The Expense

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-Bill
B-17E 41-2595 "Desert Rat" Restoration Team

Wow, best of luck, Dry Martini! What an ambitious project. Have you guys thought about scouring the countryside for shark-fin wrecks in the States? I don't remember where I saw it, but there is a link somewhere on the internet, which shows pictures of very substantial remains of an early shark-fin somewhere high up in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. I think Col. Rohr has that info, if I'm not mistaken. It's not even in water, so the Navy couldn't dispute that. I guess the only thing besides money to recover it, is that it probably would be on some kind of federal land, park, or preserve. I would think that would be a lot easier to deal with than the Navy, however.

I think that would be great. Everyone wins. We have done it in the past. THe NMUSAF helped Air Heritage get "909" back in the air after the crash at BVI back in the late 1980's. They sent us patterns, drawings, and material to help get the plane airborne again. They also did the same for the top turret of the P-61 in Reading. MAAM lent us a turret, and we made a copy of it for the P-61 at the NMUSAF, and made a second for MAAM, and I think Kermit Weeks.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

Aren't there also some RAF B-17C remains at a crash site in Norway?

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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)

He is laughing his a$s off on my speaker phone right now!

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"Hindsight is usually 20% off!"

I meant no disrespect by using the replica term. I just wasn't aware of the project. That is going to be coo!

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

Maybe there could be a compromise on the Tell's Peak C model - might a dedicated restorer be approved to remove the tail section for use in the recreation and leave the wings on the mountain?

(Is the Col. laughing at me now?)

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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)

He is Cackling like a Moxie Drunk Mainer.

Oh, and while giggling he said he knows the locations of 6 C Models.
And has seen three of them.

(Dont we all miss him on here?)

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"Hindsight is usually 20% off!"

I got some of that stuff from a little store near Desert Hot Springs - "drunk" wasn't quite the sensation I got from it.



He must be a good swimmer!



Tell him the proofreader says hello!

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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)

Thanks TriangleP, I knew I'd read that info somewhere, just didn't remember where. The whole idea of an early Fort in the air is a wonderful thing.

Scott

If anybody wants a decent B17C I'd have said the RAF's AN529 in Libya was a good bet.

Unless its been cut up or trashed like that Handley Page Hermes. And the Lady Be Good. And the intact, sat on its gear Bristol Blenheim.

Bucket and sand shovels at the ready....



Ric