Warbird Information Exchange

Just posted a mini-update at B-17 News that has three photos of 44-83814 at Savannah. Here is one:



The rest are here:

http://www.aerovintage.com/b17news.htm

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Scott Thompson
Aero Vintage Books
http://www.aerovintage.com
WIX Subscriber Since July 2017

As Always Scott,
Thanks for sharing your connections, photos and insight.
Good to see the rapid progress the 8AF Museum is making.
#1 - get a B17
#2 - bring it to the Museum
#3 - make a BIG hole in the wall to push the plane through
#4 - oh yeah, restore the Fortress!

So is the goal to bring it as close to WWII configuration as possible? Good job guys!!

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

Must...have...more...pictures...

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"Everyone wants to live here (New Jersey), evidenced by the fact that it has the highest population per capita in the U.S..."

If they are going to paint the aircraft where it sits now, wont that be somewhat of a problem with other displays so close by?

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

If they use the method of charged paint, then no problem at all. The NMUSAF s doing it right now, with no problems

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

Uhh, why paint it? Wasn't City of Savannah natural metal finish? Looks like a good candidate for a high speed buffer...

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"Everyone wants to live here (New Jersey), evidenced by the fact that it has the highest population per capita in the U.S..."

I totally agree with your assessment. In fact, I know of a polishing method they could use that works very, very well. I hope they don't do the OD thing as had earlier been talked about. We've got one of those to complain about already.

Scott

I hope they don't paint it either. Never was a huge fan of that look.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

The original bird was NMF.It needs to stay that way.After some months in the weather in England I would imagine the sheen was gone off the aluminum anyway.History should be represented as accurately as possible.

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Hang The Expense

Yes. We are on the hunt for turrets and other items needed for the inside. Remember her last job was as a fire bomber so we have allot to do to get the interior right. One step at a time !

I can supply replica turrets for your B-17G. I have the molds for the chin, top, ball and Cheyenne tail.

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To donate to the PV-2D project via PayPal click here http://www.twinbeech.com/84062restoration.htm

We brought her from: to this in 3 months: Help us get her all the way back

All donations are tax deductible as the Stockton Field Aviation Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Tell a friend as the Harpoon needs all the help she can get.

Thank you!

Taigh Ramey
Vintage Aircraft, Stockton, California
http://www.twinbeech.com
'KEEP ‘EM FLYING…FOR HISTORY!'

I recently organized a reunion of pilots and crewmembers who flew that particular B-17 from 1959 to 1966 (for Kenting, as CF-HBP). I've got their logbooks here at my desk. This is when it flew high-altitude photo survey, before the tanker configuration.

I sure heard a lot of great stories!

Anyway, if it's of interest to the Museum, I can put them in touch. These guys are very sharp, and still have all their marbles -- in fact more than I think I do right now. They could offer insight into how things were set up in 1960, when the airplane was only 15 years old.

Not much use of course, if the focus is purely on a different B-17G which went overseas to the 8th.

Dave

That's great stuff. I would think the museum would want to keep a record of the actual history of the aircraft. Perhaps they could even host a reunion for those guys eventually...

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"Everyone wants to live here (New Jersey), evidenced by the fact that it has the highest population per capita in the U.S..."

I see that B-17G Liberty Belle is slated to be coming to Savannah at the end of February, to take part in a WW2 Adventure weekend.

The Mighty Eighth Air Force Musuem features in the scheduled program for this event too !

Full details can be found here ~ http://wwiiadventure.com/

Oh for a lottery win ......

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Blue Skies .....

Peter

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