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Re: what happened to many full scale wood warbird mock ups??

Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:54 pm

Did you hear about the plane with wooden wings, a wooden engine, wooden wheels and a wooden fuselage? It wooden fly! Bada-BUMP-TISH!

*tumbleweed rolls past*

I seem to recall the Hunt Veteran & Vintage book from the late 60s/early 70s referred to the SST mockup as being the centrepiece of a proposed museum at Kissimee, Florida. This museum was supposed to have hundreds of aircraft lined up as future exhibits. Nothing ever came of it, I guess?

Cheers,
Matt

Re: what happened to many full scale wood warbird mock ups??

Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:05 am

I still have mine! :wink:

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Re: what happened to many full scale wood warbird mock ups??

Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:02 am

I remember seeing on ebay a few years ago the remains of the mockup for the A20 CAC Wamira.

Re: what happened to many full scale wood warbird mock ups??

Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:50 pm

Yes, the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, Calif., does have the Boeing SST mock up nose, and they operate it up and down on occasion.

Re: what happened to many full scale wood warbird mock ups??

Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:08 am

They are like 30 foot guillows models
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