Warbird Information Exchange

Added another album...This is kinda like boring you guys with home movies hehe That was a great and lucky day...it was all unplanned, just another drive to the museum. It was quite the event, big band, reanactors, the original crew and of course the great weather. I remember the right main smoking really bad not long after touch down. They used just about every inch of the far runway. Ron Runyan's P-51 was escorting her in along with to Turbo T-34's, I must have burned through 5 rolls of film..ahh the good old days! I was 16 at the time. I understand that several B-17 operators offered to escort her in..but was kyboshed by the Air Force. That would hav been truely historic...but not meant to be.

Jim

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Boring?

Heck NO.

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Great shots of Shoo Shoo Baby arriving at Dayton! I could kick myself for not going to the museum for that.

I know the feeling.....the only Saturday I didn't go the Chino Airport between 1990 and 93 was when David Tallichet flew his Marauder for the first time in 50 years....on 18/4/92. My connection at his shop was fired so no phone call about the flight. I was sick about that for a long time...till I got the first air to air of it on 5 August 1993!

John

Great shots. Were any of you chaps about at Dayton when they had the big re -shuffle when they were working on the new building? A lot of unique stuff was parked outside for several days...

Dave.

yes . i was and it was interesting to see all the changes from week to week. it was real interesting to see what they had to do to the B-36 to get it moved. there still adding more aircraft and things. whats going to be fun is to see where they will put the C-99 once it is done and ready.

Speaking of the XC-99... has it been completely disassembled and moved to Wright-Pat. yet? I remember seeing photos of them moving the engines, but I am just a little flumoxed as to how they could possibly move a fuselage as huge as that as far as that (or the wings for that matter).... how was it done/will it be done? Anyone have pictures?

Cheers,
Richard

Pieces of the XC-99 have been arriving at Dayton via a C-5 Galaxy for the past 2 or 3 months. I'm not sure just how much of the plane has been moved at this point but in the last issue of the Friends Journal I received from the museum there was a photo of the engines sitting in the restoration hangar. Dont look for the XC-99 to be put back together for quite awhile. I'm hearing it will be a minimum 5 to 7 year restoration job!