Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:03 pm
MOH winner Lloyd "Pete" Hughes' Liberator from the Ploesti raid. (Lt. Hughes was a family friend)
Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:13 pm
VF-17 Jolly Rogers CO Tommy Blackburn's F4U-1A "Big Hog" displayed center stage at the National Naval Aviation Museum as the living symbol of the US Navy's highest scoring fighter squadron.
Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:49 am
Boyington's corsair.
Lady in the dark, the P-61 that had the last kill of world war 2.
a republic XF-12 rainbow.
Lady in the dark, the P-61 that had the last kill of world war 2.
a republic XF-12 rainbow.
Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:10 am
My choice would be one that actually still does exist: The Lady.
Shes been baking in N. Africa for over 60 years, waiting patiently to get her trip home. Shes earned it. Some disagree, but I would like to see her restored and flown as a tribute to all the Ds and their crews that fought in every theater of the war.
Shes been baking in N. Africa for over 60 years, waiting patiently to get her trip home. Shes earned it. Some disagree, but I would like to see her restored and flown as a tribute to all the Ds and their crews that fought in every theater of the war.
Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:35 pm
P-38 of Antoine de St Exupéry with its markings when he disapears in the south of France in 1944.
Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:19 pm
I would love to see a real TBD Devastator. Hopefully that will happen sometime before I die. 
Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:16 pm
Warbird Kid wrote:Mudge wrote:Well...since we're passin' the bong around...
Figures the college kid gets it
Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:30 pm
Haha, seems you got it too!
Did we mention B-32's? Now that would be cool to have seen!
Imagine if you will....
You may need to take a hit for this one.... 
....That somehow 6 or so Dominators ended up surviving, one going to the CAF. Imagine FiFi having a partner her equal size barnstorming across America!
Did we mention B-32's? Now that would be cool to have seen!
Imagine if you will....
You may need to take a hit for this one....
....That somehow 6 or so Dominators ended up surviving, one going to the CAF. Imagine FiFi having a partner her equal size barnstorming across America!
Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:33 pm
I'll second the TBD. Especially a Torpedo Eight TBD.
And I'd like Douglas Bader's Hurricane. With the 242 squadron "boot" on the nose.
And an 80-foot Elco boat. (I know, it's not an airplane. But as long as we're wishing for pie the sky ...)
And I'd like Douglas Bader's Hurricane. With the 242 squadron "boot" on the nose.
And an 80-foot Elco boat. (I know, it's not an airplane. But as long as we're wishing for pie the sky ...)
Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:34 pm
... er, "pie _in_ the sky."
Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:18 pm
Someone near the top of the thread mentioned Gibson's Lanc from the Dams Raid.
That one was genuinely a possibility: Lancaster B.I (Special) ED932/G survived the war, being summarily scrapped in 1947. One of many, many examples of "if only" from a time everyone just wanted to get beyond the war...
S.
That one was genuinely a possibility: Lancaster B.I (Special) ED932/G survived the war, being summarily scrapped in 1947. One of many, many examples of "if only" from a time everyone just wanted to get beyond the war...
S.
Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:22 pm
george wrote:My choice would be one that actually still does exist: The Lady.
Shes been baking in N. Africa for over 60 years, waiting patiently to get her trip home. Shes earned it. Some disagree, but I would like to see her restored and flown as a tribute to all the Ds and their crews that fought in every theater of the war.
Lady B Good has been sitting in Tripoli for around 20 or 30 years if memory serves... She is in none too great shape, and supposed to part of some museum there. Libya is now on our friend list, so maybe there is hope. But she is no longer stuck in the desert, although she would have been better off if she was, imho...
Say- What about Doolittle's B-25, which crashed so elegantly on top of that mountain in SE China? Is it still sitting there, or was she recovered for scrap after the war or anything?
Robbie
Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:33 pm
it would be nice to see a
p-43
b-35 or b-49
b-19
xp-46
xfm-1 airacuda
dc-5
b-32
boeing clipper
theres alot of other cool planes that should have never
been scrapped
p-43
b-35 or b-49
b-19
xp-46
xfm-1 airacuda
dc-5
b-32
boeing clipper
theres alot of other cool planes that should have never
been scrapped
Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:09 pm
Robbie, seems like I read in an Av magazine in the last year or so that Lady be Good was retrieved from the desert and put behind a locked fence because vandals and souvenir hunters were getting out of hand. Of course Tripoli is a seaport isn't it. Salt air, not good.
Oh yeah the big four foot square diorama of the crash at Lone Star survivied the flood. It looks like someone just took the cover off.
Doug
Oh yeah the big four foot square diorama of the crash at Lone Star survivied the flood. It looks like someone just took the cover off.
Doug