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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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I have seen similar film, albeit in B&W, if a visit by JFK to Eglin.
One very short shot shows F-100s on the range..and the target appears to be a B-29. I've never seen a B-29 on a range except for the well known examples at China Lake.
But the timing of a JFK visit us right, it would have been shortly after the last B-29s (WB-29s, IIRC) left service.
Anyone know more?

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"Firepower" film of the 1957 show at Eglin. https://youtu.be/HucIsg_JhX0


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Love the pictures, but find it amusing that all of those VIP’s are sitting in folding chairs out in a dirt field, and the speakers are talking at an unlevel podium on the dirt, with no riser or anything. Today, we’d spend a million bucks paving the whole thing, cater tents and grandstands, and the speakers would have an air conditioned space for before and after their speeches.

I liked the old way.


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Can you imagine the SOUND from the first photo?


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junkman9096 wrote:
Can you imagine the SOUND from the first photo?

It must have been absolutely glorious.

Is it my imagination, or is that Mustang an H model?


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Snake45 wrote:
junkman9096 wrote:
Can you imagine the SOUND from the first photo?

It must have been absolutely glorious.

Is it my imagination, or is that Mustang an H model?


I was thinking it was an "H" also.

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Are those P-61's in the first bombing pictures??


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Lynn Allen wrote:
Are those P-61's in the first bombing pictures??


Looks like it. I think some were based at Thomasville, which is a hundred (?) miles away, so sending them to Elgin for use as targets might make sense.


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The B-17 looks like it has a large number 10 on the vertical, with the serial moved down and forward on the fin. Too bad there isn't a buzz number with the last three of that serial like many postwar planes had.
Shame about the P-61 and B-24.

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Even in the late 60's and early 70's you could find the twisted wrecks of WW II aircraft out on Eglin's ranges. In the 80's, they started a big environmental and UXB removal from the areas. There are some F-89 chunks out on Field 4 but nothing older. There are various a/c (USAF/USN/Army/Russian) at the outlying fields.

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Chris Brame wrote:
The B-17 looks like it has a large number 10 on the vertical, with the serial moved down and forward on the fin. Too bad there isn't a buzz number with the last three of that serial like many postwar planes had.


Probably an Eglin-based DB-17; there were a lot around even after this date.


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