LSFM's PB4Y pictures

Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:34 pm

Someone had asked me (in the Sun N Fun post) to take pictures of the PB4Y while I was at the LSFM show. So here they are:

Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:46 pm

Hi Chuck:

Very nice pictures! The PB4Y-2 is not very famous compared w/ the B-17, but they sure did a lot of damage to the Japanese during 1944-45.

Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:10 pm

Did you get some time in the P-40 while at the show?

Chees,

Lynn

Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:29 am

I'm glad to see it coming along so well. It will be a real addition to the warbird scene.
I admire LSFM for finding the turrets..that had to have been hard.

Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:10 am

Thank you very much.

Wow they are doing a great job, I hope in the next several years that she will be taking to the air!

Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:14 pm

GREAT!! do you know what paint she will wear??

I look at those two Privateers H&P has for sale with Courtesy and just grumble for the lack of funds. Those would be perfect additions to FLYING community!

It looks like LSFM has rebuilt her almost perfectly - still looks like it has the "Super Privateer" cockpit configuration and if you were to get really picky the B-25 engines (but thats going too far)

Thanks for the pictures!!

Tom P.

Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:59 pm

Chuck,

Thanks for the photos.

Anybody know where LSFM got their PB4Y from?

I have a photo taken around 93 of an airframe laying outside
Tom Reilly's.

Thanks,

Bill

Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:50 pm

Chuck,

EXCELLENT photo's Sir. Looks like they are very close to completion on the project. Did anyone there give you any thoughts as to when it will be complete ? And perhaps, when her return to the skies may occur ?

I saw a Privateer at the Yankee Airforce's airshow last fall when they did Thunder Over Michigan. The plane look ostensibly complete and would be a good basis for a restoration should they decide to do so.The H&P birds that are for sale also are good candidates. But those look tired.

Anyhow...excellent photo's again Sir.

Paul

Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:18 pm

Lone Star's PB4Y last flew as a tanker with T&G out of Chandler, Arizona.

Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:31 pm

How closely related are the PB4Y and the B-24? At first glance, the PB4Y looks like a B-24 with a single tail. The turret installations (including those very unusual Erco side turrets) are clearly different from the B-24. What are the other differences?

Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:27 pm

From what I've read the PB4Y has a longer tail, different turrets, and that's it.

Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:32 pm

The exact figure escapes me at the moment, but the PB4Y has a signifigantly longer forward fuselage than the B-24.

Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:06 am

Stupid question....

What are the 2 inner blue blister on the second pic ?

Are those the inside of the rear blisters ?

What are those & what are they used for.

Sorry for the ignorance & tks for sharing.

Great pics

Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:17 am

Hi Michel:

An interesting thing to note is that the PBY and PB4Y, both built by Consolidated, have the same type of side gun blisters.

Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:06 am

Chris,

To my knowledge the Erco 250TH was never installed on the PBY (Always happy to be proven wrong, though! :wink:

).

Michel,

Here's a little light reading on the topic:

http://www.navylib.com/ErcoWaistTurretOps.htm

Off to bed...