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Ran across this shot of a B-25 coming in at Deer Valley Airport in between runs by dragsters on the main runway!

I feel bad for the guy on the wheel chair. He's probably thinking, "Man wish I could fly her, just once".

poor bastard i would say

who knows if his injury is permant by a heelchair? but sad if so. contrast betwween free as a bird and not...

anyone NOTICE the odd podd thingy UNDER the b25 fuse like a canoe shaped?

what is this?

"anyone NOTICE the odd podd thingy UNDER the b25 fuse like a canoe shaped? what is this?"

I would say it's a fire retardant hopper...Tom

Iwas just looking at the same thing Tom. Looks like a life boat or something!

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Where's Deer Valley?

Dave

North Phoenix area.

Thanks, Chad.


Dave

This was probably one of Don Underwood's airplanes. He worked several B-25s out of PHX Sky Harbor and Deer Valley back in the day in a variety of aerial application roles. The tank set up looks pretty familiar. If this was his ship, the date of this photo would have been pre-1968, as that year he sold his B-25s to the production company that was ramping up with inventory for "Catch-22." Neat shot. Dunno who the guy in the chair is... and Deer Valley is a pretty busy field today so they probably wouldn't let folks roll around the area to have a look at airplanes in this fashion....

ANY PHOTOS OF THE DRAGSTERS?

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Now this is an extremely long shot, but it's possible that the fella in the wheelchair is Ray Godman. He was a well known drag racer from the early days and ran the Tennessee Bo-Weevil. Here's a link to a more recent photo......

http://allshops.org/cgi-bin/community/c ... r=&asc=ASC

Gary