Warbird Information Exchange

Any news on Fantasy of Flight.

Chuck you guys have my deepest sympathies. Just count yourselves luck that you go away unscathed personally.

Best of luck for the future.

Chuck

Thanks for all the updates. Thoughts are with you and everybody down there.
As for Fantasy of Flight, all their webpage says is they plan on reopening this Wednesday.

Bill

I just got an Email from Kermit. They had a small piece of a building near new hanger come off but no other damgage. Having some power issues but plan to open as soon as that is solved.

Mark Clark
Courtesy Aircraft

This is from Kermit

Sun 'n Fun they were fine as John Burton sent out an email and called as well. Reilly lost the front of his hangar but the B-17 and other outside aircraft did fine considering. Other hangars on the field were down with lot's of crushed aircraft. Sunderland was outside because we couldn't get it in. Had is set up for a different wind direction and storm went the other way! Just about had an issue with it before the wind slowed down.




Mark Clark
Courtesy Aircraft

That is great news. I hope that the Damage at Reillys isnt too bad and that all the cats are ok (Mrs Fence goes there for the cats)

Looks like Kermit got away with it and I had totally forgot about Sun n Fun (sorry guys).

Matt Sharkey from the CAP sent me this picture yesterday. I asked him for some more as well. I will post more later today.
http://community.webshots.com/user/gardnerpilot

_________________
Live to fly, Fly to live.....

IMHO they were very lucky. Any news of the damage inside?

Finally, is the yellow T-6 on the grass one of yours?

No, the T-6 on the grass is privately owned. I have added a few more pictures and will continue to add more as the days go by.
http://community.webshots.com/user/gardnerpilot

_________________
Live to fly, Fly to live.....

There are some high quality pics of the devestation to some of the civil aircraft at this link:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Hurrica ... 786/tm.htm

Unbelievable, some of the aircraft are rolled up into little unrecognizable chunks!

What a loss. It's amazing how random the destruction is. It seems from the photos that it doesn't matter if your aircraft is in a hangar or not.

Does anyone have pics of the damaged Warbird Adventure T-6's? Are they repairable? Let's hope so.

Patrick

Any word on the condition of the White 1 Foundation over next to Reilly's museum?

Jim

I got a mail from Mark Timken saying they suffered no damage.

Dave

JimN, no idea on the condition of the facilities but White 1 itself is now with Gosshawk Aviation in Mesa, Arizona so was a looong ways from Charley! (as am I, thank goodness)

Thanks Chad, Dave

Good to hear that no damage was done to the shop.

So the fuselage is now out at Gosshawk? Great news, since that sounds like the bulk of the assembly work can begin. I can't wait for this one to come together.

When I was flying around over FOF a week before the storm, all I saw outside was the Sunderland and a Constilation.
As to the privious post before this from pilot06, I had mentioned early on in this thread that warbird Adventures SNJ's are crushed with 3' steel hangar girters and other twin engine airplanes laying on them. Both wings are smashed on both planes and it is very disturbing to look at. It may be more than a week before they are even extracted from the hangar.

_________________
Live to fly, Fly to live.....