Dead Airplanes on Popsickle Sticks

[DaveG]

Have any "dead airplanes on a stick" ever been taken down and restored to fly?

according to the registry and Tulio's picture here, Hun Hunter XVI did.

[DaveG]

Here are a few more from McGhee-Tyson ANG base in Knoxville.





The Sabre isn't technically on a pole; it is on static inside the base and had just been restored at the time of this picture; it had spent years outside at a fairgrounds in Knoxville.

[viking73]

Here's a Cougar on a stick. This bird was at a rest stop on I-10 right across the border from Alabama into Florida as I recall. I took this photo pre-Katrina so I hope she survived the storm...





Do you know if she is still there Holedigger??

[mustangdriver]

It is still there. I saw it in the Spring.

[viking73]

It is still there. I saw it in the Spring.

Glad to hear it! Thanks for the info. Chris.

-Derek

[Clifford Bossie]

[crusader1]

Although this is not a real aircraft, but a fiberglass replica donated by MARC, the 1941 Historical Aircraft Museum located in Geneseo now has its own Gate Guard.

http://members3.boardhost.com/1941AirMu ... 99048.html



P.S. It is mounted so it swivels in the wind like a weathervane.

[viking73]

Nice shot of the Big Spring F-4E Cliff. Where is the first F-4 on display?

Thanks too for your pics of F-80C in Kansas you posted!

-Derek

p.s. - How are things at IPMS - El Paso? I was a member with you in the late 80s/early 90s. Remember meeting at the German Community Center at Ft. Bliss? You may remember me, I was in my teenage years back then

[Clifford Bossie]

Nice shot of the Big Spring F-4E Cliff. Where is the first F-4 on display?

Thanks too for your pics of F-80C in Kansas you posted!

-Derek

p.s. - How are things at IPMS - El Paso? I was a member with you in the late 80s/early 90s. Remember meeting at the German Community Center at Ft. Bliss? You may remember me, I was in my teenage years back then

Hey Derek!

The F-4D is at the airport in Hastings, NE.

Glad the F-80 shots were of use, I check the museum everey few years to make sure it is still there.

We no longer meet at the German Community Center, we now meet at St. Pauls Methodist church on Edgemere. And we have a meeting this Sunday! You are always welcome.

[Ztex]

A couple from the border regions...

F-111D in Clovis, NM





And this one may have been posted before...a T-38 in Lubbock, TX

[Jeroen van Toor]

This is the Fiat on the pole in Rome, Italy.

Regards,
Jeroen van Toor

[JohnB]

Since someone awoke this ancient zombie thread, I might as well mention that the B-25 from the Minnesota amusement park is now at the WWII museum in New Orleans.