A neat old photo

[Steve Nelson]

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

[Michel Lemieux]

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

Tks for sharing!

[Neal Nurmi]

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)...

[APG85]

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

[Courier Sportster]

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.

[Lon Moer]

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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[Flying Pencil]

How did Fertile Myrtle get her name?

[Steve Crewdog]

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)...

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:

[APG85]

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

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?

[Neal Nurmi]

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.