Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:06 am
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.
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:42 am
We saw you drive in yesterday. Nice work !
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Sat Oct 15, 2011 8:21 am
SPANNERmkV wrote:Thanks for resusitating the thread Gary!
Can't tell you where to park the 18 wheeler but...
Here's the Limey approach to patrol boats...
that's a vosper hull. thanks for posting!
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:09 pm
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:34 pm
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
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
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:10 pm
Here are some shots that I took at about 9am December 7, 2011.
Jason
Jason
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:40 am
she looks a great deal darker than when I last saw her in the 70's. Is she more accurately painted now?
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:12 am
Jason, nice photos. What a national treasure she is!
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:28 pm
the330thbg wrote:she looks a great deal darker than when I last saw her in the 70's. Is she more accurately painted now?
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
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:44 am
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.
Re: Rare photograph of Dreadnaught Row from Flying Fortress
Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:28 pm
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.