The dirty birds of Mercer Field, GA.

Nathan · **Posted:** Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:38 pm

I hope those birds are saved someday! Even the -34.

Those pictures were too painful to look at. :vom:

CorsairFreak · **Posted:** Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:39 am

B29Gunner, if you still have the contact information to the owner of the "museum" could you PM it to me. I will pass it on to the people at MAPS who will be going down to get the F-84. Also could you post any more pictures you have of the F-84? Thanks. I think we already have a F-84F canopy so that shouldn't be to bad. Is the cockpit gutted, or just in bad shape from the elements?

peter · **Posted:** Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:19 am

Great news where is she going and what are the goals for her??

Aircraft Mech Paul · **Posted:** Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:52 am

Hi Guys,

Was wondering about the old Convair in the photo's. It looks in fairly sad shape. But it also reminds me very much of the old T-29/CV-240 we had at the Tech College I went to for my FAA Licenses. Anyone know what kind of shape the thing is in ? Or has time and weather taken their toll on the airframe to the point where the spars are corroded ? I have worked on many Convair vairiants....-240/-340/-440/-580 and I am all too aware of how bad corrosion gets into these old girls.

By the way...it was the Exhaust Augmentor tubes that caught my eye on this one.

Paul

B29Gunner · **Posted:** Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:45 pm

CorsairFreak wrote:

B29Gunner, if you still have the contact information to the owner of the "museum" could you PM it to me. I will pass it on to the people at MAPS who will be going down to get the F-84. Also could you post any more pictures you have of the F-84? Thanks. I think we already have a F-84F canopy so that shouldn't be to bad. Is the cockpit gutted, or just in bad shape from the elements?

Sorry I dont have any more pics of the F-84. I didnt attempt to climb up to the cockpit, as I'd already had my helping of Pigeon sh*t for the day! But I would venture to say that it probably looks very much like the H-34 cockpit. Bring your MOPP 4 gear! :wink:

B29Gunner · **Posted:** Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:54 pm

Aircraft Mech Paul wrote:

By the way...it was the Exhaust Augmentor tubes that caught my eye on this one.

Paul

Here you go Paul!

The Convair was by far the most complete bird there, from what I could see on the outside anyway. But of course it has a lot of issues as well, and I have no idea what it looks like on the inside. Some guy did take pictures of the interior once, I'll see if I can find them.

A couple bad pics of the Convair...

peter · **Posted:** Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:58 pm

she doesn't look a complete lost cause though? surely she can be rebuilt and form a base for a transport museum or such?

Eric Friedebach · **Posted:** Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:35 pm

cg51 wrote:

I found some pictures I had from 1988 at Mercer, we stoped there on the way home from Florida

A C-124? I don’t recall seeing that when I was there about five years previous.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:07 pm

Anybody know what became of the C-124?

B29Gunner · **Posted:** Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:29 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

Anybody know what became of the C-124?

I seem to recall someone saying it went to Warner Robins, but I dont know if that's true or not.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:41 pm

i've seen alot worse!!!

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