PV-2D Harpoon 84062 (Tanker 101) comes back to life

[Taigh Ramey]

Really liked the pix on the nav table install.

Here are a few more for you

[shrike]

Now here is some serious restoration work on a critical airframe component

What do you suppose these holes are for?

If it's that critical, it must be the aft relief tube mount

[Taigh Ramey]

If it's that critical, it must be the aft relief tube mount

Very close. If that's your number one guess what would be your number two guess?

[hang the expense]

Wow,that is some rippin good detail.Where in HAILS half acre did you find all the detail parts?

[slinky]

Great pix, thanks for posting!!!! Excellent work, everyone should be proud of the work they do on her. You have some pretty talented people adding their expertize to the effort.

I posted some pix from the day you started working on her at the strip and some pix with the turret installed to an aviation group I send out. Also posted the link to your daughters video....this is what I got back from one of the members. They all loved it!

"Excellent is a nice word; this was just perfect. Young lady doing the video work could teach everyone a thing or two. Could have been 1944; and the fact they were exercising the gun turret just added to the realism."
I really liked the part with the bridge in the background....so good!

And on the critical airframe component number two guess.....you make it pretty clear!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

[Dan Johnson II]

Really liked the pix on the nav table install.

Here are a few more for you

Great photos. This one made me think of this image of a 459 Squadron RAAF Ventura Nav at work. Somewhere I got this goofy interest in Hudsons, Venturas and Harpoons. No clue where it originated!

Great to see the work space being filled out so well.

Image from a wonderful history of 459 Squadron RAAF called "Desert Scorpions" by Leon Kane-Maguire.

[Taigh Ramey]

And on the critical airframe component number two guess.....you make it pretty clear!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

I unbolted the toilet paper holder from an R4D so it has Navy lineage. The bolt pattern was perfect but its a little more frilly than the one seen in other harpoon photos. It will do until I find a better one. Anyone have any WWII Navy issue toilet paper?

[Taigh Ramey]

Awesome shot. Thanks for that. I have very few in action shots inside the Ventura and Harpoon. I would love to see how they were actually loaded up with gear. Most all of the shots I have are factory photos or from the tech manuals that are pretty sterile.

My Dad was a B-29 Navigator so I have a real soft spot for that particular crew position. I still need to pull out the other nav gear like the sextant, astro compass, dividers, HO series of nav tables, cases etc. I am looking for some correct pacific navigation charts too. All I have now are those Hawaii/Pearl Harbor charts on the table and an Esso "map of the war in the pacific".

I would like for my Dad, or any other navigator, to sit down and feel right at home. The same goes for all of the other crew positions.

Slow but steady...

[PJ]

I have the same style TP holder in my bathroom! She's looking good, Taigh!!
Dan- that's a great shot inside the Ventura!


PJ
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[me109g4]

I love coming to this thread, every time i do I spend at least an hr. here. Amazing how much has been accomplished so far, absolutely fantastic. Wish i lived closer so i could through in some free labor,, JT

[cco23i]

We had the same TP holder on our KC-135's too!!

[Dewayne Doud]

Hey Taigh, there is a 1945 navigation chart of south japan on ebay..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Large-South-Japan-Navigation-Chart-Map-February-1945-Military-/261015207939?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc5b80003


Thanks for the updates!
D

[Taigh Ramey]

Thanks for the heads up Dewayne. It is perfect for the Nav table. I will bid on it.

[Taigh Ramey]

The air show season has just started. My God what have I done?

[Fouga23]

Repaint of the panel, or more?