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'Sorrry it took so long. ;<)
Wilton
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From: "Fmiser"
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] B-17 tail number
> 1 minute and 15 seconds after the question was posted
> Wilton
> > 1 minute and 15 seconds after the question was posted
> > Wilton replied:
>
> > It's photo # 5 on the Commemorative Air Force (CAF)
> > website. Google CAF.
> > A bit later he added:
> >
> > CAF's B-17, "Texas Raiders."
> Craig wrote:
>
> http://commemorativeairforce.org/?page=cms/index&cm
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 23:14:43 -0400 "WILTON" wrote:
> It's photo # 5 on the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) website. Google
> CAF.
http://commemorativeairforce.org/?page=cms/index&cms_page=142
It's the aircraft in the foreground of picture #5.
Craig
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On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:34 PM, "Fmiser" wrote:
> A B-17 flew over my house a couple days ago. I got a couple
> mediocre photos of it and I'm now trying to figure out which one
> it is.
Possibly the "Wings Of Freedom" tour. The second article states there are only
10 B-17's in flying condition in
It's photo # 5 on the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) website. Google CAF.
Wilton
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From: "Fmiser"
To:
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:32 PM
Subject: [MBZ] B-17 tail number
A B-17 flew over my house a couple days ago. I got a couple
mediocre p
A B-17 flew over my house a couple days ago. I got a couple
mediocre photos of it and I'm now trying to figure out which one
it is.
Painted drab green.
Letters "VP" on the side in front of the horizontal stabilizers.
Large "L" at the top of the vertical stabilizer, and the
numerals "72" at the
'Zackly.
Wilton
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From: "Peter Frederick"
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] B-17/B-29 SLIDESHOW
I suspect the switches and guards, etc, were pretty much standard
parts nation wide
I suspect the switches and guards, etc, were pretty much standard
parts nation wide from WWII up to the late 60's. Until the advent of
"soft" switches and the combination of switches and indicator lamps
(meaning the invention of plastics that would withstand the heat of
an incandescent lam
'Amazing how many of the small components such as switches, switch guards,
warning/indicator lights, canon plugs (elec connectors), tubing, wiring,
brackets, etc., are familiar to me on B-47s and B-52s; 'course they're very
close cousins and only a very few years removed from those WW II heroes
He can attach them all to the same email.
Mountain Man wrote:
RLE wrote:
A few pictures. With Kaleb's indulgence.
remove them from the zip format and attach one jpg in each of several emails.
mao
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Great stuff, thanks for sharing!
Ed
300E
2009/12/5
> These two aircraft are located in a secure hangar with the space donated by
> Boeing for the time being. The building is across from the control tower on
> E. Marginal Way south of the od Headquarters building. The B-29 is owned by
> the Muse
Sorry. Those MBCA car show pics were tagged on by Flickr for some unknown
reason. ignore them.
RLE
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These two aircraft are located in a secure hangar with the space donated by
Boeing for the time being. The building is across from the control tower on
E. Marginal Way south of the od Headquarters building. The B-29 is owned by
the Museum and is under restoration for eventual public viewing but
RLE wrote:
> A few pictures. With Kaleb's indulgence.
remove them from the zip format and attach one jpg in each of several emails.
mao
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A few pictures. With Kaleb's indulgence.
RLE
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There was a P-38 that was only missing the engines at a salvage
yard/airport (Page Field in Yukon, OK) here in the early 60's. Dad
bought a torn up D-18 for scrap to make a camper. I begged him to buy
the P-38 also, but he didn't. about 10 years later, the Confederate
Air Force came through town,
Nothing like turning nice Parker 12 gauges into Raleigh bicycles for export
to kick start the old economy again. hee hee
Zeb
On 22/01/07, Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LarryT wrote:
> Perhaps you know - weren't a large number of WW2 aircraft destroyed or
sold
> for scrap in Europe f
LarryT wrote:
> Perhaps you know - weren't a large number of WW2 aircraft destroyed or sold
> for scrap in Europe following the war because is would have been too
> expensive to ship them back? Seems like I heard/read that somewhere.
Makes sense. A lot of them were sold as scrap here too. Up to
nnlist.com/roadtest/
.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] B-17
<>
Au contraire. I had the opportunity to walk through a meticulously
restored
B-17F in the private McCaw hangar at Renton Airport a few
> < operating one...>>
>
Au contraire. I had the opportunity to walk through a meticulously restored
B-17F in the private McCaw hangar at Renton Airport a few years ago.
>From the Museum of Flight's website:
"The Museum's carefully restored aircraft is the only flyable B-17 F-model
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