Warbird Information Exchange

Even fewer here. My comments are from memory, which has been known to fail. Think we'll ever see 3 B-17's together again?





I remember H&P bringing a C-82 from Greybull one year, but I thought that one had the rooftop jet pod. Not sure about this one:



Martin Caidin's "Iron Annie". He gave a great talk at Theatre in the Woods:



Probably Dennis Bradley in the CWH FG-1D:





Tri-gear Me-108's were all built by Nord, right?





Pretty sure this was the first time I even heard of a T8F:



Last of my slides - i have 1974 - 80 plus Mundalein, CAF Harlingen, Dupage County Airshow; all have been posted to some degree, but probably 60% are still 'undiscovered'. They take up quite a bit of space. Should I send them off to Challenge Publications or do you folks think there's a market? Lots of Vintage/Classic planes in there too.

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Chris

Great shots lots of memories there. I seem to recall TWA having at least one C-82 with the jet pod that they used to haul replacement engines/parts that were destined for AOG with maint. issues.

I remember a C-82 with the jet pod in the mid 90's showing up.

Sadly - a flying C-82 is something I will probably never see. Great shots from a time gone by!

Tom P.

TWA had one based in Paris before my time that ferried JT-3Ds around Europe for sick 707s. Seen a few C-119s around but never flying. First one was an ex-Belgian AF example registered in Swaziland or somewhere and was parked at Manston Airport in 1982. Likely scrapped there, can't recall now. Another one pitched up at North Weald, also ended up scrapped sadly.

This has been a fun journey so far, Chris. Thanks for posting this stuff. It inspires me to think about posting some of my old photos again.

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Neal Nurmi

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I'm not calling anyone's baby ugly or criticising anyone, but...
That Mustang scheme hi twith invasion stripes and postwar markings is interesting.

And garbs, yes, all nose gear Bf-108 variants were Nords.

There was a 108/Nord at the CAF airfield in Abilene Texas about 20 years ago. It's owner died and last time I saw it, it was heading west on a trailer.
Wonder where it is now?
Can't be that many out there.

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C-82 or C-119? The one pictured above is a -119. How do I know? Because I looked up pictures of both. The -119's cockpit is C-130'esque - right up towards the nose. The -'82's is B-24'esque. Situated farther aft.

Just looking at the pics again, the Luscombe T8F is a new type to me, unmistakably a Luscombe though!

There were C-82s with jet pods. They were used as freighters, not firefighters. As previously noted, TWA had one.
They were modified by Stewart-Warner at Long Beach.
There were many of them rusting on the ramp back in the '60s, that's where they got the planes for the original
Flight of the Phoenix film.

Sadly, they were pretty much gone by the advent of the modern warbird movement. And they were a bit too early or underpowered (or both) to be used as fire bombers.

But aside from general configuration, they really don't look much like a C-119.

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I believe you mean Steward-Davis. Stewart-Warner built instrumentation.

https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDo ... rial=38506
https://www.stewartwarner.com/

You are correct. It was Steward Davis.
I've been spending too much time with my old cars I guess.

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i remember the 82s on the ramp at LGB and S&D had several PBY hulks that i think were used in Tora.

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The ex-Pan Am Packet now resides in the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, where it can easily be compared with one of its younger siblings:

Fairchild C-119G N8093 by Mark Carlisle, on Flickr

I love threads like this, thank you so much for sharing!


Oh yes, please do Neal!

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Zac in NZ
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