B-32 What Was It????

hercules130 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:39 pm

Obergrafeter wrote:

I was all up for that moon trip...............don't know about Russia. Maybe I can talk Ryan Short into going and getting the Doolittle B-25 and bringing the Dominator back as a little pelon.

we are going to bring it back bald? or is that pilon? :lol:

I read a while back about a B-32 surviving at Macarran until the 80s any truth to that?

hercules130 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:44 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

They built a mock up B-24, why not a B-32.

Do you mean that monstrosity we got in trade for 44-51288, that aircraft holds so many memories for me, darn BRITS!

In all seriousness the aircraft is now gorgeous and out of the South Texas humidity.

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:54 pm

hercules130 wrote:

I read a while back about a B-32 surviving at Macarran until the 80s any truth to that?

No,
No B-32 survived past 1947. The airforce had 1 airframe set aside at DM for the future air force museum and then allowed it to be scrapped.

the plane at McCarran was a C-124.

hercules130 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:26 pm

Not the aircraft I was thinking about or that the article referenced. Too bad that 124 had to end like it did. I photographed several times, the last while she was being scrapped.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:39 pm

There is some reference to the B-32 at the NMUSAF back by the B-29. Now I would still love to see a full scale mock up on display and use as many real parts as we can. The Air Force Museum didn't allow the aircraft to be scrapped, it was an accident on behalf of the guys that cut it up.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:40 pm

Just curious how did the moon B-32 story start?

hercules130 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:46 pm

Would be super neat thats for sure. Would never really be like seeing a B-32 or experiencing one, but it would be a really neat one of itself.
If you were not interested in anything other than and exterior shell display what do you think it would cost?
Very neat to think about.

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:46 pm

hercules130 wrote:

Not the aircraft I was thinking about or that the article referenced. Too bad that 124 had to end like it did. I photographed several times, the last while she was being scrapped.

Was it this one
R6V Constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R6V_Constitution

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:48 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

Just curious how did the moon B-32 story start?

National Equirer,

hercules130 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:08 pm

No Matt the story was in fact about a B-32. I the first R6V did hang around in Vegas for some time, I believe the 2nd was scrapped in FL in the early 80s?

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:34 pm

it could not have been a B-32, as none survived past 1947, and none were sold as surplus, all were scrapped at Walnut Ridge, Kingman, Tucson.

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:08 pm

Actually Matt I think it was the "Globe" or "Star" that had the Moon story, not the reputable fine upstanding "Enquirer". I'm getting spelling lessons now in Spanish, don't have Spanish spell check so I better not use those words.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:13 pm

It was the Weekly World News which also first reported the UFO that landed on the Nimitz and Clinton's secret negotiations with a "Space Alien" :shock:

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:17 pm

Well ya, but those stories were true.

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