ID Quiz Time!
Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:38 pm
I know this might be a little difficult, but can anyone identify the cockpit that the photo was taken from?
Bonus points for the name of the B-25 and event that the photo was shot.
If it's too hard, I'll post some other hints, but you guys constantly amaze me, so I'll give it a try!
Have fun and Blue skies,
Jerry
HINT: There is another unseen aircraft in the sky with these two.
Bonus points for the name of the B-25 and event that the photo was shot.
If it's too hard, I'll post some other hints, but you guys constantly amaze me, so I'll give it a try!
Have fun and Blue skies,
Jerry
HINT: There is another unseen aircraft in the sky with these two.
Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:43 pm
DC-3/C-47?
Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:57 pm
Trae;
Not right, but similar type!
Jerry
Not right, but similar type!
Jerry
Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:03 pm
Well the angles are right for the B-17 front windscreens, but the center pillar is too wide.
Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:15 pm
Good deduction, not a 17!
And by the way, it is not a modified windscreen in any way.
Jerry
And by the way, it is not a modified windscreen in any way.
Jerry
Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:16 pm
Airdales wrote:Good deduction, not a 17!
And by the way, it is not a modified windscreen in any way.
Jerry
Douglas B-23?
Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:28 pm
C-54 !!! ????? The window angels dont look exactly the same...but...
Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:45 pm
BINGO!
Wow! Talk about fast!!!!
Nice going Trae!!!!
The windsheild angles don't look the same because I was low in the cockpit to shoot up at the 25, so you don't see the angles, just the dash combing.
Care for the extra point questions?
(and what C-54?)
Hint: It was taken at a show in 1997, and I know many WIX'ers were there!
Jerry
Wow! Talk about fast!!!!
Nice going Trae!!!!
The windsheild angles don't look the same because I was low in the cockpit to shoot up at the 25, so you don't see the angles, just the dash combing.
Care for the extra point questions?
(and what C-54?)
Hint: It was taken at a show in 1997, and I know many WIX'ers were there!
Jerry
Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:54 pm
Well, Im not to familiar with any C-54's flying around in '97 other than maybe some tankers or private owners that werent really in the airshow scene. Could it be Spirit of Freedom? 
Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:15 pm
Good guess, but it's not Tim Chopps C-54.
Here's a bad scan of the slide that I took of the "other" aircraft in the photo flight.
As an added hint, Michael O'Leary is in the B-25 and I believe there were only 2 or three airshows at this location.
Jerry
Here's a bad scan of the slide that I took of the "other" aircraft in the photo flight.
As an added hint, Michael O'Leary is in the B-25 and I believe there were only 2 or three airshows at this location.
Jerry
Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:35 pm
Sorry, Duplicate!
Jerry
Jerry
Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:52 pm
Jerry
I have it from someone who was looking at you while you were taking his picture, that you were on Atlantic Airways C-54 and the B-25 was "Killer Bee" . And maybe the location was Batavia. Any truth to this story?!
Don
I have it from someone who was looking at you while you were taking his picture, that you were on Atlantic Airways C-54 and the B-25 was "Killer Bee" . And maybe the location was Batavia. Any truth to this story?!
Don
Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:04 am
BINGO, BINGO, BINGO, Don!
Actually, it is "Atlantic Warbirds" C-54 in MATS colors.
1997 at the National Warplane Museum's show in Batavia, NY!
Tom Reilly was flying "Killer Bee", Jim Vocell and Pat Whitehouse were on the C-54, and Vern Rayburn was flying the Connie. One of the few shows that the MATS Connie and the MATS C-54 got together
O'Leary got some great shots ofthe two MATS birds.
My wife was on "Killer Bee" and has a neat shot looking over O'Leary's shoulder at the nose of the C-54.
By the way, David Tallichet and his wife were with us on the C-54 and David thought it was a fantastic flight.
We had to go up to about 12,000 feet to get above the haze layer.
Really a super treat and one, sadly, that will now never be repeated with those particular aircraft.
Nice job, Don, who was the someone who helped you out with this quiz and which aircraft were they on?
Blue skies,
Jerry
Actually, it is "Atlantic Warbirds" C-54 in MATS colors.
1997 at the National Warplane Museum's show in Batavia, NY!
Tom Reilly was flying "Killer Bee", Jim Vocell and Pat Whitehouse were on the C-54, and Vern Rayburn was flying the Connie. One of the few shows that the MATS Connie and the MATS C-54 got together
O'Leary got some great shots ofthe two MATS birds.
My wife was on "Killer Bee" and has a neat shot looking over O'Leary's shoulder at the nose of the C-54.
By the way, David Tallichet and his wife were with us on the C-54 and David thought it was a fantastic flight.
We had to go up to about 12,000 feet to get above the haze layer.
Really a super treat and one, sadly, that will now never be repeated with those particular aircraft.
Nice job, Don, who was the someone who helped you out with this quiz and which aircraft were they on?
Blue skies,
Jerry
Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:06 am
Don;
I think I just figured it out once I realized where you live!
Had to be one of the Atlantic Warbirds C-54 crew!
Jerry
I think I just figured it out once I realized where you live!
Had to be one of the Atlantic Warbirds C-54 crew!
Jerry
Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:30 am
Great guys,Here is me on the right with Pat flying Chris's C-1A at nite. I hate to ask but is Pat still with us?
Jim Vocell did alot for the C-47.
Jim Vocell did alot for the C-47.