oohhh...0000, oooo O-47!

Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:42 pm

haha someone mention O-47's?

Enjoy and comments welcomed! Nathan.

Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:12 pm

Besides the one that I think is blocked in in Topeka, KS, does anyone have any idea where I might be able to get one outside to shoot it for my next book?

Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:43 pm

The only other two I even know of are the one displayed at NMUSAF and the one in storage at NASM.

Great pics, Nathan. You don't see too many O-47s in camo. Most had been relegated to hacks by then. Somewhere I've got a pic of a very tired one being used as a mechanics' trainer.

SN

Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:19 pm

Planes of Fame is restoring one as well. It will have most parts from a swamp crashed example and some from the Planes of Fame crashed & burned example. Unfortunately is is not completely assembled at this time.

Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:49 pm

Is the swamp one the one they had found in Louisana or someplace like that in the 80's? I saw a flying one at Minter Field around 1984. Is this the crashed POF plane?

Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:29 pm

The one you saw at Minter was the one that crashed in the early 80s.

Here is the swamp one taken yesterday:

Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:30 pm

when is it going to drop the guppies?? the 1 on floats must have had a drag factor worse than 10 cinder blocks

Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:31 pm

Well, it's better than an open observer's cockpit underneath! Might get a bit oily down there.