Aircraft

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Cool!

[Texas Lawdog]

We've got a private outfit restoring 2 C-47s at the hangar in Fort Worth. One of those C-47s was a backup plane for D-Day Invasion. They belong to a private party. He is spending some big bucks in the restoration.

[Arcey]

We rode out to the farmer's stand across the road from the museum. This is the best I could get from Princess Anne Road. There were a couple in the air but so far off it would have been a waste of time to take a shot.

Warbirds Over The Beach.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Field of Dreams.

[Texas Lawdog]

Thank you for the picture, Arcey. I am in Love!

[Texas Lawdog]

While we were in Fort Worth yesterday, we went by the hanger to check on the CAF's A-26. They had it on the flight line, doing some engine work. The private outfit had it's C-47 in the hangar doing some engine work as well. It was great to the A-26, almost ready to be airborne again. The sun was too bright to take any pictures.

[yeti76620]

My Trucking Adventures today, in Aurora CO, I came across this......  Maybe you folks be interested  .....  or not...
About five acres of fuselages....  cockpits.... etc....

"US ARMY" on the side... between the triangular window & danger sign..

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Haven't seen one of THOSE for a while.  Probably a staff or courier plane.  The Army doesn't have many fixed-wing planes, but there are some.  I tried to get into flight training for that, once upon a time.  My ears were already "shot" (literally - gunfire deterioration) so I couldn't pass the entrance flight physical.  If I'd already been in, my deteriorated hearing wouldn't have mattered, but since I was applying for Warrant Officer Flight Training, I couldn't get in.

Rats!

 

[Texas Lawdog]

We've got a Squadron meeting this weekend and it will be good to see our A-26 again. It will be hot in the Hangar. The Planes will be moved out to the flight line for maintence.

[litl rooster]

That piece of metal would make a nice Decoration in a "Man Cave"

[yeti76620]

LOL......  Li'l Roo ......  that piece of Metal is A MAN CAVE!.....  That place had six er seven,,,,maybe more,,,, of those ol' Army planes sit'n together make'n a Fort of Man Caves....  put the tips back on with the guns then the fort would be well armed too!

Wonder if those tips where lay'n 'round someplace there?

I know NOTHING 'bout those fly'n machines but they are really COOL!

[litl rooster]

I don't think that whole fuselage would fit in the doublewide. Somebody creative with a Sawzall could cut the nose panel off though, and have something to hang on the wall. Hanging next to the picture of Gus McCrae and Danica


looks like the propeller warning is no longer needed.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

 

[Texas Lawdog]

We have a collection of "Nose Art" in our main maintence hangar in Midland, Tx(HQ of CAF). Some one took a cutting torch on the fuselage of WW2 bombers that were to be crushed and cut out the nose art. The collection is known to us as "The Girls". They are on display for everyone to see who visits our Museum in Midland. They are hanging on the walls of the hangar.

[litl rooster]

Take some pictures of it for us Tex.  There was really good stuff back in the day.

[yeti76620]

I don't think that whole fuselage would fit in the doublewide. Somebody creative with a Sawzall could cut the nose panel off though, and have something to hang on the wall. Hanging next to the picture of Gus McCrae and Danica


looks like the propeller warning is no longer needed.

Dbl-wide huh.........  Creative sawzall'n could make way for a fuselage addition AND have the portraits in proper position with careful plan'n......

[litl rooster]

yep that and two rolls of duct tape

[yeti76620]

yep that and two rolls of duct tape

Do ya suppose that the duct tape would have to be FAA approved in case of a 'nater gets it all airborne ....      

[Texas Lawdog]

My duct tape is rated up to 200 mph, but has not been NASCAR approved.

[litl rooster]

might need the NASA approved rolls

[Texas Lawdog]

Roo, There are 34 pieces of Nose Art at the Museum. They are refered to as "The Girls" They need constant care to preserve the paint. I'll take some pictures the next time that I am out there.

[Arcey]

She and I rode out to the farm stands. Culpepper Farms is across from the museum. I kinda, sorta had to check. The last few trips out have been a bust. Not today.

The Junkers isn't there. First time in a long time it hasn't been at its spot. They've pulled 'Chuckie' up front. The ole boy at the prop of the airplane with the yellow cowl was doing his best to get it to fire. It never did. Beneath the B-17's right wing, the one with Nazi markings was moving.



He's still working on it in this shot. Two guys had strapped into the airplane to the extreme left.



This is the one in the first shot.under the B-17's wing. He's headed to the end of the runway. I looked at the flag - the wind's right. And, about the time he pointed the nose into the wind, the camera's battery quit. I've been wondering when it was going. Everything I've posted, and a bunch more I haven't, were taken on the first charge.

I never did hear or see them try to start the green one. Less than a minute after I took this shot they climbed out.



There was another, smaller airplane with Nazi markings that followed this one into the air. Damned if they don't look awfully slow after watching the Hornets at Oceana. They're just a touch quieter too.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Quieter ... but still handsome!

[Texas Lawdog]

The plane with the German markings that I see is possibly a Storch, an observation aircraft.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Fiesler Storch. This type is what Skorzeny used to get Mussolini out of the prison castle he was being held in. the blue plane in some of those pics is an SBD Dauntless dive bomber. The one that wouldn't start looks like a WW I type judging from the engine I can see parts of