Warbird Information Exchange

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SPANNER

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Support Your Local Warbirds! KBO!
The only reasons the airplanes matter is what the veterans did with them... and why.

As you (might) know - it is not my job to recruit for Warbirds of America.

But I will NEVER forget the kindness extended to TEXAS RAIDERS on our first (return to flight) tour in 2010 when we were having our troubles. This was from both the Warbirds group AND the Fabric Recovering workshop folks.

If you have a few bucks to spare maybe join EAA Warbirds of America.

http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/

SPANNER

PS- And THEN go join the Commemorative Air Force and tell 'em I sent you!

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Support Your Local Warbirds! KBO!
The only reasons the airplanes matter is what the veterans did with them... and why.

Yep, join them both! As for Aluminum Overcast, replacement control surfaces are on a truck heading for CO as I type. The tour will continue shortly.

Zack

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Curator - EAA Aviation Museum, Oshkosh, WI
"Let No Story Go Untold!"
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looks like flak damage.

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"According to the map, we've only gone 4 inches."

Glad to hear the damage wasn't too severe. Didn't Nine-Oh-Nine have to have some skins replaced due to hail damage a few years ago?

SN

It appears they put out a orange cone for every hailstone...

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Those who can set that knowledge into motion in the physical world are rarer still.

The few who possess real knowledge and can set it into motion of their own hands are the rarest of all.

Steve,
The other incident happened before my time, so to speak. But I got this from Tom Newton, and it is even more interesting than I would have guessed.

"Collings' B-17 and B-24 got beat up by hail at Addison in 2003. A storm rolled through in the middle of the night. As a maintenance guy, I can tell you how disheartening it is to be caught in a circumstance like that. They borrowed control ...surfaces while theirs were being recovered so they could make tour commitments. The Gulf Coast Wing and Lone Star Flight Museum were instrumental in that effort. It was great to see differences being put aside when another group was in trouble."


So THAT is what I know about THAT.
SPANNER

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Support Your Local Warbirds! KBO!
The only reasons the airplanes matter is what the veterans did with them... and why.

Thanks, Spanner..I was thinking that the Collings B-17 acutally got a fair bit of sheet metal damage sometime back in the 90s and had some skins replaced.

By th e by, do you know exactly how long Texas Raiders will be in the Dayton area in August? We'll be passing through there on vacation, but probably not until Monday the 6th.

SN

From EAA:
http://www.eaa.org/news/2012/2012-06-08_b17hail.asp

hate when this stuff happens

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" I am a nobody in aviation, but somebody to my family."