therealJR wrote:
Does it include the two Bendix aircraft that were at KTEB in the late 60's ?
Speaking of the Bendix B-25's, here's a nice thread ...
viewtopic.php?p=129839and a couple of rare shots of one of the Bendix B-25's that is now "Betty's Dream".
Caption states: "Here's a picture of the Bendix B-25 Mitchell that Teterboro engineering used for flight testing of the PB-10 Flight Control system and various other systems such as radar.
From research I have done, this aircraft (#45-8835) was built in August 1945 and delivered to USAAF. The end of the war was declared in mid-August that year after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th & 9th. Consequently the USAAF had a surplus of assets and rejected acceptance of the aircraft. It was then delivered to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Walnut Ridge Arkansas for disposal on October 31st, 1945. After a brief period of private ownership in Florida, Bendix Aviation Corp in Teterboro bought it in June 1946. It was registered as NX69345 in 1948 and they owned it until 1966. My guess (purely a guess) is that this picture was taken in the early 1950s The PB-10 was already in service with major airlines in the mid 1950s, but development would have continued – eventually becoming the PB-20 in the late 1950s.
Bendix Field Engineering Corp (BFEC) in Columbia, MD took over ownership of the aircraft in November 1967 and operated it until 1972. It later flew as a tanker in Alberta and was sold to aircraft restorers in 1993. It was restored over the period 1994-1999 and renamed as “Betty’s Dream” and based in Dover, Delaware where it is flying today." (photo & caption: Paul West)
Caption states: "Teterboro winter picture courtesy of Gerry Scheil. An ice-encrusted B-25 we used to have in our flight test fleet at Teterboro airport. Circa 1955. This was obviously configured to test the PB-10 Flight Control - a forerunner of the PB-20 that was used on the Boeing 707." (photo & caption: Paul West)
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