Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:26 pm
I expect they will be closed to prevent occupation by wildlife.
James
I know all about this from first hand experience with our F-86
stupid birds!!
Tom P.
Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:34 pm
wendovertom wrote:I expect they will be closed to prevent occupation by wildlife.
James
I know all about this from first hand experience with our F-86
Tom P.
And snakes, and mice, and bees, and once in a while bobcats.
James
Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:37 pm
jamesintucson wrote:wendovertom wrote:I expect they will be closed to prevent occupation by wildlife.
James
I know all about this from first hand experience with our F-86
Tom P.
And snakes, and mice, and bees, and once in a while bobcats.
James
Thanks for reminding me of why I hated living in Tucson. You forgot to mention the Sun is 3 miles from the Earth there...
Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:17 pm
Hmmm...actually that sounds pretty tolerable to this Frozen Northerner (whose '62 Studebaker is stashed in a barn nearly half the year because Winter has five months dedicated to it here!)... 
The B-36 looks great. I remember seeing the tail of it sticking out of a hangar at Carswell, just down from the Southwest Aerospace Museum's airpark, during a visit to TX in '92. Texas was gloriously toasty too...So, I've now seen one whole B-36 (Dayton's); the front end of another (Walt Soplata's); and the back end of a third (Carswell). Plus the XC-99 (when it was fading away across from Kelly AFB). Very glad to see the work being put into these difficult old giants...hats off to what must by now have been hundreds of volunteers over the years.
S.
(Note to self: add XC-99 shots to propliner/skytruck set for P'bucket...)
The B-36 looks great. I remember seeing the tail of it sticking out of a hangar at Carswell, just down from the Southwest Aerospace Museum's airpark, during a visit to TX in '92. Texas was gloriously toasty too...So, I've now seen one whole B-36 (Dayton's); the front end of another (Walt Soplata's); and the back end of a third (Carswell). Plus the XC-99 (when it was fading away across from Kelly AFB). Very glad to see the work being put into these difficult old giants...hats off to what must by now have been hundreds of volunteers over the years.
S.
(Note to self: add XC-99 shots to propliner/skytruck set for P'bucket...)
Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:30 am
skydaddy61 wrote:Once the decision was made that it would never fly, the engines were removed from the power pods to save weight. This was in the late 70s when the aircraft was being diassembled at GSW in preparation for the move to Carswell. I remember seeing piles of parts - jugs the size of my head, a four-foot-long crankshaft... No idea what happened to them.
Skydaddy61,
Since you were there, you might have known my great uncle; Warren Carroll. He also worked on the B-36 Program at Consolidated during the production run.