Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:17 pm
Great news from the Guard !
Now about that USAF thang, would someone please pass the Koolaid ?
Now about that USAF thang, would someone please pass the Koolaid ?
Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:29 pm
All I mean is let's just welcome a good thing, and maybe it will catch on.
Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:40 pm
It IS !! The only reason those guys are being left alone is that the Navy worked the deal with Mazzolini !
Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:41 pm
mustangdriver wrote:All I mean is let's just welcome a good thing, and maybe it will catch on.
Hmm, like hangaring my P-51 (someday) at Robert Gray?
Not sure where that is going...
I'm glad to see Doc get a hangar. Just hope there aren't some kind of strings attached - although I'd suspect some local citizens will probably try to protest this "waste" of taxpayer money.
What I'm more curious about is what progress (if any) has been made and what the current status of the project is. It seems like things must be progressing slowly if at all.
Ryan
Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:48 pm
RickH wrote:It IS !! The only reason those guys are being left alone is that the Navy worked the deal with Mazzolini !
How does the navy have anything to do the ANG hangar? That is what we are talking about. The USAFM is not going after people flying warbirds, just not theirs. I know all about the deal worked for the B-29 as I worked on the restoration of the PBJ that started the deal. You are the one that needs to back of of the koolaide.
Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:04 pm
Hey Doc may get some more help this way. Some Aircraft have been restored quite nicely through the help of USAF units or ANG units more specifically. The NMUSAF's A-36 for example. Then Shoo Shoo.
Shay
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Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:03 am
Also the NMUSAF helped get 909 back in the air after it crahsed at KBVI
Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:15 am
RickH means that "Doc" was removed from the USAF inventory and transferred to the Navy in March of 1956, so the NMUSAF has no hold on "Doc".
Walt
Walt
Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:14 am
RyanShort1 wrote:
I'm glad to see Doc get a hangar. Just hope there aren't some kind of strings attached - although I'd suspect some local citizens will probably try to protest this "waste" of taxpayer money.
What I'm more curious about is what progress (if any) has been made and what the current status of the project is. It seems like things must be progressing slowly if at all.
Ryan
All the speculation on this thread is one of the reasons I wasn't able to say anything about the hangar arrangement on my Kansas Aviation Museum thread. The individual at the museum who gave me the information about the storage deal said that the B-29 folks weren't going to make a huge deal about it. An announcement with little fanfare (in my opinion, probably so the "concerned taxpayers" and politicians wouldn't go nuts) was all that the Doc people had initially planned.
As far as progress on the airplane, from what I've gathered there is some work going on at another location on both outer wing panels. As the article stated, the actual airframe is in storage for the winter, so kudos to the Guard for putting her up for a little while.
Scott
Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:18 am
Second Air Force wrote:RyanShort1 wrote:
I'm glad to see Doc get a hangar. Just hope there aren't some kind of strings attached - although I'd suspect some local citizens will probably try to protest this "waste" of taxpayer money.
What I'm more curious about is what progress (if any) has been made and what the current status of the project is. It seems like things must be progressing slowly if at all.
Ryan
All the speculation on this thread is one of the reasons I wasn't able to say anything about the hangar arrangement on my Kansas Aviation Museum thread. The individual at the museum who gave me the information about the storage deal said that the B-29 folks weren't going to make a huge deal about it. An announcement with little fanfare (in my opinion, probably so the "concerned taxpayers" and politicians wouldn't go nuts) was all that the Doc people had initially planned.
As far as progress on the airplane, from what I've gathered there is some work going on at another location on both outer wing panels. As the article stated, the actual airframe is in storage for the winter, so kudos to the Guard for putting her up for a little while.
Scott
Scott thanks for the update on the restoration status.
Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:23 am
Second Air Force wrote:RyanShort1 wrote:
I'm glad to see Doc get a hangar. Just hope there aren't some kind of strings attached - although I'd suspect some local citizens will probably try to protest this "waste" of taxpayer money.
What I'm more curious about is what progress (if any) has been made and what the current status of the project is. It seems like things must be progressing slowly if at all.
Ryan
All the speculation on this thread is one of the reasons I wasn't able to say anything about the hangar arrangement on my Kansas Aviation Museum thread. The individual at the museum who gave me the information about the storage deal said that the B-29 folks weren't going to make a huge deal about it. An announcement with little fanfare (in my opinion, probably so the "concerned taxpayers" and politicians wouldn't go nuts) was all that the Doc people had initially planned.
As far as progress on the airplane, from what I've gathered there is some work going on at another location on both outer wing panels. As the article stated, the actual airframe is in storage for the winter, so kudos to the Guard for putting her up for a little while.
Scott
That is all I was trying to say.
Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:35 am
Glad to hear Doc will be inside. 
That was very generous of the ANG to allow them to use the space too.
That was very generous of the ANG to allow them to use the space too.
Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:30 pm
It's a great thing for Doc to be indoors, politics be damned.