So when do you suppose the last time was that the worlds only flying B-29 was parked in a hangar that was built for doing B-29 maintenance? Well she's parked in one now.
Last night we helped Dave put her in the hangar at the Vintage Flying Museum at Meacham. Our hangar was originally built on Peyote Field which was a B-29 training base. In the 1950's it was disassembled and trucked to Fort Worth and reassembled where it stands today. It was designed to fit 2 B-29's in it nose to nose and close the doors. (Now all we need is another B-29)
Since 1990 it has been the home of the Vintage Flying Museum and it housed the B-17 Chuckie until earlier this year. With the sale of the B-17 we had some available hangar space to help out the B-29/B-24 Squadron while Addison's runway was being worked on, so she and the B-29 crew will be the guests of the Vintage Flying Museum and the CAF Invader Squadron (Former Spirit of Waco A-26, now named Hoodle Head in honor of CMH reciepient) which also makes the VFM it's home. She fit's in the hangar nicely!
Nice bit of tug drivin' Dave!
Fifi will be at the VFM until the end of the month when she heads out on a tour up the East coast. We are very honored and happy to be hosting such a historic and beautiful aircraft. Another great example of different organizations coming together to help each other out. Doc's widow, Chuckie told me that she remembers working on the B-17 out on the ramp before they got the hangar and how miserable it was, cold in the winter and hot in the summer, and how thankful they were to finally get a hangar. She is happy to be able to help out other warbirds in the same situation.
Good timing considering that a hail producing thunderstorm rolled through the DFW area this afternoon!
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