Warbird Information Exchange

Saw an article on the Pennsylvania Guard retiring the last of it's Hueys this week. Wonder just where they will end up. They had a good long run.

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRel ... RN20090421

...fixing them all up so they can fly them to the desert and blow them up...

...except for the ones they'll offer to us civilians, cut into convenient 2" bite-size pieces...

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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)

Hope not...
The California Guard retired one last month and donated it to the Sacramento FD for "training". Not quite sure what that means! In the AF, fire training AC are caught on fire, chopped with axes and such!!! I know training has to occur, but to take a flyable airframe and destroy it in this manor just seems a shame! I'm sure someone would love to donate a wrecked hulk or two for a flyer!!

http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/1 ... 2520Region

With my reserve unit, we sometimes go to Ft. Indiantown Gap to do weapons qualification. They have a bunch of them sitting with the blades off and covered up on the side of the airfield closest to the "mountain". Sad to see 'em go, hope they find a good home.

The PANG made a fuel stop here at VKS a couple of months ago in 2 Hueys headed back home to Pa. I wonder if those are THE 2 Hueys. If so, I wish I'd known.......... We had a USAR Medivac unit here that disbanded in '96 thanks to Clinton's cutbacks. I miss that sound!