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Here's the fuselage in storage at Kermit's three years ago..the vertical was standing against the was. I'm not sure if the mid-section is from Myrtle..it seemed to be in pretty rough shape.

SN

Wow......lot's of new pics of Fertile Myrtle I never seen before....

Tks for sharing!

Actually I've enjoyed seeing them again too. The 1970s were interesting times for air shows. There were lots of Air Force Base shows (and lots of Air Force Bases!), crowds were much smaller, and everything was much more relaxed with a lot less security presence -- though there was the time at Travis when I wandered off in the evening to shoot departures and suddenly was surrounded by screeching Jeep tires and M-16s and distinctly irritated Air Police (or whatever the AF calls their cops)...

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A thread from a few years ago. Has some shots of the interior of FM. She looks a little rough...but very restorable...

She might never fly again but she would make a great museum piece. She would look great restored as a mother ship and on display in Pensacola...

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... p?p=494561

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I think that cut in the front gear door is for the long pointy nose on the Skyrocket, to clear. But hey what do I know? I'd like to see FM in the sky with Fifi and DOC. And then, from out of nowhere, a TU-4 to slip into the aerial proceedings.

At the time of this picture, the B-23 was owned by Edward J. Daly of World Airways and was also based at Oakland.


ed; I just saw Neal's post in the B-23 thread and that info was already noted

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remember the Oogahonk!
old school enthusiast of Civiltary Warbirds and Air Racers

How did Fertile Myrtle get her name?

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Do-17z fact and history site, setting it straight.
There is something deeply wrong with a society more offended by breasts than by entrails.

I grew up in Alameda and used to ride my bike out to the Oakland Airport to hang on the fence and dream. You're right about airshows in the 70s, Neal, I'll never forget hiding at the end of the Madera runway while Lefty did his thing overhead.



Good times. Thanks for the images. :cheers:

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Looks like the gun turrets are removed in this picture as are most of the exterior markings. Was she being used in the t.v. movie Enola Gay around this time?

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"Everyone wants to live here (New Jersey), evidenced by the fact that it has the highest population per capita in the U.S..."

I've been wondering about that turret too -- looking through my pictures it sometimes seems to have just seemed to be on or off at random.

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Neal Nurmi

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