Warbird Information Exchange

For those of you going out to the Wings Over Houston Airshow this weekend, behind the grandstands you can see at my booth the huge model that I made a while back of the USS Texas. The hull is made out of a Lockheed Jetstar fuel tank. Before y'all start to chew on me, yes, it isn't 100% accurate.

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The nose art/aviation artist and general lunatic from Houston, Texas http://www.jasonbarnettartist.com

We saw you drive in yesterday. Nice work !

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"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass..."
Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto

that's a vosper hull. thanks for posting!

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" I am a nobody in aviation, but somebody to my family."

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S.

CAF-West Houston Squadron and guests did a fly-by of the Battleship TEXAS today in recognition of the Texas Navy and Pearl Harbor Day.

Yours truly took some snaps while trying to avoid hitting the other traffic.
There were three flights up .
Battleship 1 was a PT-19, a PT-26 and a Stinson 108
Battleship 2 was an AT-6, an SNJ and a BT-13
Battleship 3 was a Lockheed Lodestar C-60

Something for everyone. The weather wasn't the prettiest and it was fairly bumpy.




Happy pre- Pearl Harbor Observations.

SPANNER

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Here are some shots that I took at about 9am December 7, 2011.
Jason

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The nose art/aviation artist and general lunatic from Houston, Texas http://www.jasonbarnettartist.com

she looks a great deal darker than when I last saw her in the 70's. Is she more accurately painted now?

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S.

Jason, nice photos. What a national treasure she is!

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

They did a fairly major renovation in the 1990's. Towed her nearly 30 miles to a shipyard in Galveston where they patched up the hull (some more), then chipped off the concrete decks and replaced with wood planking, repainted to sea blue camo color. It was a huge improvement, those concrete decks were truly dreadful, ugh!



http://www.usstexasbb35.com/Dry%20Dock%201998-1990.htm

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Cheers,
Kurt Maurer
League City, Texas

PIC, Ford 6600 pulling Rhino batwing up and down the runway

There was five(I think 5 ) PT boats here in VA on the Elizabeth river up until a few years back. They were in Dry Storage at a private boat yard. There was also some kind of low Visibility navy boat there as well with them, it was newer most likely built in the last 25 years or so it was d'millled had tons of axe and fork lift holes in it. If I remember right there was two newer landing craft stored there at one time as well.

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Those 5 would probably have been the Nasty class boats that were for sale for so long. I think most started to rot and they were scrapped.

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"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass..."
Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto