Warbird Information Exchange

Mike asked me to post some pictures for him... I suspect he'll be adding the content shortly!





Ryan

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Aerial Photographer with Red Wing Aerial Photography currently based at KRBD and tailwheel CFI.
Websites: Texas Tailwheel Flight Training, DoolittleRaid.com and Lbirds.com.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD. - Prov. 21:31 - Train, Practice, Trust.

Thats scary..... Im sure its pretty dangerous on a flyable bird, but thats nothing compared to the mess we have on our Corsair (static).

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Keep Em' Flying,
Christopher Soltis
Dedicated to the preservation and education of The Sikorsky Memorial Airport

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Thanks Ryan!!!

Ryan was kind enough to post these pictures for me. I'm not very good with computers, especially with the super slow dial-up service at the house.

These are the first two photos of some of the problems we have found with the Yellow Rose. These items are fairly minor, compared to some of the problems which led to Gary grounding the Rose a while back. We are so glad he did. So much better for the plane to be put on the ground than to put itself into the ground!

Once we are back in the air, there will most likely be a lot of posts which will detail the problems we located and where they are. We hope this will help others who have B-25's find things in time to correct them.

The photos show two external (as in not inside the wing structure) small ribs. These provide support for a piece of metal which fills in a gap between the wing and flap. More detail can be found on the "Yellow Rose B-25 Update" post. This was another minor setback on our fly date, but one we are glad we found. The first sign was missing rivets on the skin, along with some missing ones which had been painted over, showing how long this problem had been in existance. You couldn't tell there was a problem with the flap attached, but the flap had to come off so the wing could. Ray decided to pull the other flap to see if the same problem was on the right side. It was. The exact same problem, exact same ribs.

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Mike