Warbird Information Exchange

hello does any one know of the status of don brooks b17, the one pulled out of the lake in canada
and does anyone have pics
thanks
earnie

There are several people involved with that project and/or Mr. Brooks here. Last I heard, the B-17 was still in pieces in Georgia and work hasn't really started on it. On Warbird Radio, the Chief Pilot of the "Liberty Bell" talked a bit about it and said it would probably be at least 10 years before it would fly. I believe I heard that Mr. Brooks wanted to concentrate on finishing up the P-40 which recently flew before taking on the B-17 project.

From what I red, they use some part from the B-17 in Georgia as template for the project in Ohio.
I remember seeing pictures of the deskinning of the radio room, to made direcly new skin for the both projets.
(The Ohio's guys had started to build a radio room from scratch, using these skin as reference)

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Sorry for my bad English:-(

Photos taken in October of 2008:












Fuselage was inside a hangar.

Walt

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If God had intended airplane engines to have horizontally-opposed cylinders, Pratt & Whitney would have built them that way.

The "parts" on the trailer are not B-17, Reilly picked them off of a DC-3 headed to the scrapper. The outboard wing panels are the only thing on the ramp that belong to Don. We will resume work on the Labrador B-17 shortly, just need to get the Stearman and SNJ a little further along.

I'll post an update as we get a Labrador B-17 display ready for Thunder.

The crew from Champaign Lady did come down about 4 years ago to copy skins from the forward fuselage. Don't know if they ever used them.

Chuck

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Best Regards;
Chuck Giese --- Volunteer helping to restore B-17G 44-85734 "Liberty Belle".

may be it would be cool to see this one restored to represent " LITTLE MISS MISCHIEF " as i assume that this airplane will be a composite aircraft just like " MISCHIEF "