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Read this on my morning check for news.

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?Cont ... 9d4090bf7&

I am sure any help anyone could give would be appreciated.

Discussed with commentary at:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13367

WIX scooped Aero-News... wow!

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The ANN Story details a combat history for this bird:



Is the history of the "nose art" or of 44-30748?

Their referring to the history of the "nose art".
www.b25.net/pages/pacificbodycrew.html#anchor9925

44-30748 was a stateside bird...Her website..
www.b25.net

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God I love reporters. Never, ever let the truth get in the way of a good story. This reminds me of the knuckle headed reporter holding the pito tube on a T-28 and saying "the machine gun survived".

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I believe the correct technical term used was "machine turret survived".

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Mike

The sad part is that I think 80% of news is just about as accurate however most people just don't don't know enough about the truth to know the difference.

I really need to get one of those T-28 Machine Gun Turrets; in fact I’m going to call C&J right after lunch.

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So, getting back to the issue at hand, sorry When I lived in California, it always amazed me that there were car dealerships with service departments that were just a roof with open walls and roll down screen doors.

Is there an option that they don't need a fully enclosed hangar but at least a structural roof over their heads. That should be considerable cheaper than a fully enclosed hangar. Sure, maybe not the ultimate but a far sight better than nothing.

Just a thought.

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A dealership stands to lose maybe 250k if one of those doors blows open and sand/debris/flying duckpoo destroys a few cars. How much is a B24 worth?

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If Van Nuys is anything like most of the airports I have had dealing with, there is very little real estate to actually place such a building, and on top of it, the real estate is pretty tightly controlled at that. Additionally, you can't put temporary buildings on tie down pads or ramps at most of these places either. I tried to do such a thing with a temporary tent over a BC-12D at my local airport over a winter when I needed to do some work on her, but the airport had a real problem with it.

It's all about airports being greedy and adding huge fees and increases to drive out the little guys in the end... and as it has been mentioned earlier, the B-25 is a "spokesperson" of sorts for the plight of the little guys at the airport.

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