Warbird Information Exchange

Yep! now I see. Thanks Clifford for bring Dana to the forefront for his efforts. GREAT WORK on his and son's efforts. I hope those dudes over on that modeling site don't think I'm trying to take away from Dana's work. I also hope this thread is useful to them as well.

I also encourage any and ALL to add accurate information to any of the images I've posted so far. Glad to have others pitch in.

Thanks again Dana

Sadly there's already guys selling these on ebay with 'heart shaped' watermarks on them.

Thanks very much Mark!! I am looking forward to seeing those clearer versions.

I was looking at those films on the National Archive site just the other day, very cool footage.

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Date is going to be somewhere between 1950-54, as 'Sally-B' was converted to EB-17G spec in late '49 and served from 50-54 with the GE Test Flight Centre. The Sally-B team say that at some point as well as the man-pod on the wing tip, she also had an infra-red tracking device fitted in place of the perspex nose.

According to Wikipedia the Bell X-1 was flown under a B-29 to Washington DC and presented to the American National Air Museum in 1950 so presumably this was taken then, with the X-1 perhaps flown under the '29 next to it in the line-up.

Love those two photos of B-17B Mary-Ann - just wish the photographer had walked around to take a side view with the tail number and saved us a whole lot of time on research!

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Thought I'd post an image of some of the South Pacific stuff I've collected. See how it reads at such a large scale. Not too bad I guess. More of these to come soon.