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Here are some photos of Aluminum Overcast's visit to Central Iowa at Ankeny Regional Airport.






The rest can be found here. http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b67/sokotai/Ankeny/

Also included are some photos from the Iowa Aviation Heritage Museum and their T-6, N3N, PT-19 and the great Byron Original's 1/5 scale R/C aircraft hanging from the ceiling.

Thanks for looking.
Eric

Thanks for sharing the pictures ~ she looks to be in great shape

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Blue Skies .....

Peter

Consolidated by US state ~ see if there's a heavy bomber tour stop coming to an airport near you ...... http://www.bomberflight.info

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I had always wondered where byrons big birds went after they closed down the airplane side of business......


I guess now I know.

Better for them to have gone to a museum than to someone who would fly and crash them!

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One day I looked up and he's pushing 80...
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin.
To me he's one of the hero's of this country, so why is he all dressed up like them ole men....

Never get enough photos of B-17s thanks for sharing.

What scale are those models suspended from the ceiling? They look like R/C planes? Are they for sale?

they are in a museum and I am guessing that they will never be 4sale.
The company that built them was byron originals, maker of scale R/C aircraft and these were 1/5th size models they used for their annual fly-in and show.
The zero's in the one pic were catapult launched at the shows and flew until the F6F's shot 'em out of the sky.... with a very large bang and fireball...
I never saw the B-17 fly, but the -29 and -25's flew lots of times. They also had a airobatic routine with three F-15 eagles...also 1/5th scale.
I had their F-16 and BD5 micro jet and i must say they had good easy to build and fly scale models. A bit pricey, but I think they were worth it.

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One day I looked up and he's pushing 80...
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin.
To me he's one of the hero's of this country, so why is he all dressed up like them ole men....

Thanks too bad Byron isn't making those kits any longer.

They also have the 1/5 train, Pt-boats, and sherman.
Here is a link to some videos from the Striking Back show when it was held in Ida Grove, Iowa

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Paul%20Grubich

Enjoy

Eric