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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:56 pm 
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You gotta' like this teacher's style though:

"Kids, it's too nice out to conjugate verbs today. Let's go see how they build Hellcats!"


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is that CY sticking his head out of the cockpit?

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It is really hard to see but Pappy Boyington is manning the cheek window gun as well.

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I don't believe so, that guys smile is horizontal, not vertical :roll: :butthead:

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Here's a bunch of Victory Aircraft workers on the wing of Lancaster X KB799, the 100th Lanc built in Canada.

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Rohrbach all metal airplane company...

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Rohrbach was the father of stressed skin construction (from his blimp days). Several of his engineers immigrated to Wichita, Ks from 1928-1929.

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(Longardt (Heinkel), Knoll, Schwenke)

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PBY fun.

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PBY fun.

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How do you tell the natives-
Thats cloth, don't walk there. You have to stay over here.

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How do you tell the natives-
Thats cloth, don't walk there. You have to stay over here.


"Follow me. Only walk where I walk." -It was probably a helluva lot easier than keeping 'civilized' people off the planes at an airshow now.

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Thats cloth, don't walk there. You have to stay over here.


"Follow me. Only walk where I walk." -It was probably a helluva lot easier than keeping 'civilized' people of the planes at an airshow now.

But they only want to check the serial number of the carb and make sure the right number of rivets are installed

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Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon "Hot Stuff" after the 2009 engine change. Only about 30 degrees that day!


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One from Sun n Fun years ago
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So, would you call this...

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a Rohrbach test?

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Here's one from 2005 - Wendover volunteers on a TBM

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