Pima B-36 update
Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:28 am
http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/m ... a%27s+B-36
Sure tis a great shame this bird wasnt kept at Fort Worth inside.. i hate warplanes getting blue clear glass.. ruins the whole point of restoring...
Sure tis a great shame this bird wasnt kept at Fort Worth inside.. i hate warplanes getting blue clear glass.. ruins the whole point of restoring...
Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:40 am
The blue protects the interior of the airplane against the sun. I can be easily removed.
Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:54 am
Making steady progress on the old girl! If only one could fly again!
Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:21 am
I have watched this restoration for several years now. From the time the aircraft left Ft. Worth until now and it has been an intersting process. When it arrived at Pima it looked like this:
And later:
Until it has reached the current point:
There is still a ways to go, but the end seems to be in sight.
While living in Texas and even though I have no affiliation with the Pima Air & Space Museum (other than being a patron) I for one am happy to have seen the airplane moved to Pima. While the folks in Ft. Worth had kept the airplane from the scrap heap it had languised for many years. Now I have every reason to believe it will be completed in the near future.
And later:
Until it has reached the current point:
There is still a ways to go, but the end seems to be in sight.
While living in Texas and even though I have no affiliation with the Pima Air & Space Museum (other than being a patron) I for one am happy to have seen the airplane moved to Pima. While the folks in Ft. Worth had kept the airplane from the scrap heap it had languised for many years. Now I have every reason to believe it will be completed in the near future.
Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:32 pm
Here is a follow up to Cliff's post as the masking is removed from the nose.
James
James
Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:22 pm
Nice paint job! I'm 50(mumble) years old and have never felt the need to "tag" something with a rattlecan...til now. 
I'll visit ya'll one night with a case of white Krylon and fix the lack of oversray line on the underwhite!
I'll visit ya'll one night with a case of white Krylon and fix the lack of oversray line on the underwhite!
Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:33 pm
jamesintucson wrote:Here is a follow up to Cliff's post as the masking is removed from the nose.
James
It looks good James! I guess I should have waited till this week.
I like that big 95th Bomb Wing patch.
Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:53 pm
Looking good James 
, now I know I'm gonna have to come back next X-mas to see the finished product, great work by your crew.(insert two thumbs-up emoticons here!!)
, now I know I'm gonna have to come back next X-mas to see the finished product, great work by your crew.(insert two thumbs-up emoticons here!!)
Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:49 am
The B-36 and the TU-95 Bear have to be the oddest and meanest looking propellor driven bombers ever built.
They are both ugly but there is 'something' about both aircraft , purpose built to push the avialable technology of the time
They are both ugly but there is 'something' about both aircraft , purpose built to push the avialable technology of the time
Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:52 am
I'm glad to see that they kept the "City of Ft. Worth" name.