Urbana B-17 "Champagne Lady" Update 25 June 2010

[Django]

Looking really good so far!

I have to correct this. It's a '35/36 Ford ashtray, not '37. They also came in B-29s. I took this shot in FIFI. I'd show a pic of one of our '36 Ford dashes, but we swapped out the ashtray for radios in all of them. Not exactly smokers in our family...

Trivia question: What do a B-17 Flying Fortress and a 1937 Ford have in common?

Ashtray or a trunk/door handle of some sort?

ashtray

Yep news to me, located on the throttle quadrant. Was also told that the same ashtry was/is used on the B-52 as well.



Shay
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Semper Fortis

[Second Air Force]

Here's the ashtray style that equips our Vega-built Fortress, Chuckie.



Scott

[RAMC181]

...wonders how Chuckie ended up with a '37 Pontiac etc. ashtray, as fitted to General Motors-built aircraft in WWII such as the B-24...

PB

[CrewDawg]

That's a good one Paul!

I wish I had some pictures of my old B-52 cockpit from back in the day, I'm sure I remember seeing those ashtray's in the cockpit. Although by the late '80's the USAF banned smoking in the cockpits. I once was a tech advisor for a B-52 documentary and one of the shots I remember from some old Vietnam file footage was a BUF pilot coming off of a bomb run in N. Vietnam and lighting a big stogie while his oxygen mask hung by one bayonette fitting. I just thought to myself, " I hope he remmbered to turn his O2 off!"

I wonder if it's still there?

[390BG]

New skin on radio room -