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We brought her from: to this in 3 months: Help us get her all the way back

All donations are tax deductible as the Stockton Field Aviation Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Tell a friend as the Harpoon needs all the help she can get.

Thank you!

Taigh Ramey
Vintage Aircraft, Stockton, California
http://www.twinbeech.com
'KEEP ‘EM FLYING…FOR HISTORY!'

If it's that critical, it must be the aft relief tube mount

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

Very close. If that's your number one guess what would be your number two guess?

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To donate to the PV-2D project via PayPal click here http://www.twinbeech.com/84062restoration.htm

We brought her from: to this in 3 months: Help us get her all the way back

All donations are tax deductible as the Stockton Field Aviation Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Tell a friend as the Harpoon needs all the help she can get.

Thank you!

Taigh Ramey
Vintage Aircraft, Stockton, California
http://www.twinbeech.com
'KEEP ‘EM FLYING…FOR HISTORY!'

Wow,that is some rippin good detail.Where in HAILS half acre did you find all the detail parts?

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Hang The Expense

Great pix, thanks for posting!!!! Excellent work, everyone should be proud of the work they do on her. You have some pretty talented people adding their expertize to the effort.

I posted some pix from the day you started working on her at the strip and some pix with the turret installed to an aviation group I send out. Also posted the link to your daughters video....this is what I got back from one of the members. They all loved it!

"Excellent is a nice word; this was just perfect. Young lady doing the video work could teach everyone a thing or two. Could have been 1944; and the fact they were exercising the gun turret just added to the realism."
I really liked the part with the bridge in the background....so good!

And on the critical airframe component number two guess.....you make it pretty clear!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

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Civis Aerius Sum

I am a citizen of the Air

Great photos. This one made me think of this image of a 459 Squadron RAAF Ventura Nav at work. Somewhere I got this goofy interest in Hudsons, Venturas and Harpoons. No clue where it originated!

Great to see the work space being filled out so well.

Image from a wonderful history of 459 Squadron RAAF called "Desert Scorpions" by Leon Kane-Maguire.

I unbolted the toilet paper holder from an R4D so it has Navy lineage. The bolt pattern was perfect but its a little more frilly than the one seen in other harpoon photos. It will do until I find a better one. Anyone have any WWII Navy issue toilet paper?

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To donate to the PV-2D project via PayPal click here http://www.twinbeech.com/84062restoration.htm

We brought her from: to this in 3 months: Help us get her all the way back

All donations are tax deductible as the Stockton Field Aviation Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Tell a friend as the Harpoon needs all the help she can get.

Thank you!

Taigh Ramey
Vintage Aircraft, Stockton, California
http://www.twinbeech.com
'KEEP ‘EM FLYING…FOR HISTORY!'

Awesome shot. Thanks for that. I have very few in action shots inside the Ventura and Harpoon. I would love to see how they were actually loaded up with gear. Most all of the shots I have are factory photos or from the tech manuals that are pretty sterile.

My Dad was a B-29 Navigator so I have a real soft spot for that particular crew position. I still need to pull out the other nav gear like the sextant, astro compass, dividers, HO series of nav tables, cases etc. I am looking for some correct pacific navigation charts too. All I have now are those Hawaii/Pearl Harbor charts on the table and an Esso "map of the war in the pacific".

I would like for my Dad, or any other navigator, to sit down and feel right at home. The same goes for all of the other crew positions.

Slow but steady...

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To donate to the PV-2D project via PayPal click here http://www.twinbeech.com/84062restoration.htm

We brought her from: to this in 3 months: Help us get her all the way back

All donations are tax deductible as the Stockton Field Aviation Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Tell a friend as the Harpoon needs all the help she can get.

Thank you!

Taigh Ramey
Vintage Aircraft, Stockton, California
http://www.twinbeech.com
'KEEP ‘EM FLYING…FOR HISTORY!'

I have the same style TP holder in my bathroom! She's looking good, Taigh!!
Dan- that's a great shot inside the Ventura!


PJ
PV-2 Harpoon "Hot Stuff"
www.amhf.org

I love coming to this thread, every time i do I spend at least an hr. here. Amazing how much has been accomplished so far, absolutely fantastic. Wish i lived closer so i could through in some free labor,, JT

We had the same TP holder on our KC-135's too!!

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Scott Dunkirk
AZGCLHU Inc.

http://arizonagroundcrew.org/

1940's Army Air Force ground crew living history
(A 501 C 3 organization)
(IYAMYAS)

"Yes sir, it's suppose to look like that"

Hey Taigh, there is a 1945 navigation chart of south japan on ebay..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Large-South-Japan-Navigation-Chart-Map-February-1945-Military-/261015207939?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc5b80003


Thanks for the updates!
D

Thanks for the heads up Dewayne. It is perfect for the Nav table. I will bid on it.

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To donate to the PV-2D project via PayPal click here http://www.twinbeech.com/84062restoration.htm

We brought her from: to this in 3 months: Help us get her all the way back

All donations are tax deductible as the Stockton Field Aviation Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Tell a friend as the Harpoon needs all the help she can get.

Thank you!

Taigh Ramey
Vintage Aircraft, Stockton, California
http://www.twinbeech.com
'KEEP ‘EM FLYING…FOR HISTORY!'

The air show season has just started. My God what have I done?

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To donate to the PV-2D project via PayPal click here http://www.twinbeech.com/84062restoration.htm

We brought her from: to this in 3 months: Help us get her all the way back

All donations are tax deductible as the Stockton Field Aviation Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Tell a friend as the Harpoon needs all the help she can get.

Thank you!

Taigh Ramey
Vintage Aircraft, Stockton, California
http://www.twinbeech.com
'KEEP ‘EM FLYING…FOR HISTORY!'

Repaint of the panel, or more?

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book