Hangars - part 2

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 2:20 pm

Neat thread, should have kept it on one tho.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 2:29 pm

GETTING TIRED OF THIS??? are you kidding? so much eye candy!! :heart:

The Boeing 247 had a typically long and winding career. Originally delivered to NAT 7/10/33 the to UAL (BAT owned both carriers) 5/1/34, converted to 'D'. On 9/6/35 to Western Air Express then to Penn Central and back to WAE. Impressed 7/19/42 as C-73 42-68853. sold surplus to Defense Supplies Corp then to Lineas Mineras as XA-DUY, crash into a mountain near San Luis Posos Mexico 10/1/45 with all 10 fatal. I see the prototype Martin Baker MB-3, a bunch of Junkers Ju-86D diesels.
The MAMBA powered DC-3 for BEA, Roscoe Turner and Amelia, can't figure out who the other woman on the wing of the ORION is. All three of my all time favorite aircraft 566670-71-72 and the lifting bodies in the hanger @ Edwards. Shook my head at teh A-4 on it's tail inside the hanger wondering how? in both directions.
makes my head spin!!!

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tulsaboy · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 2:43 pm

Mark-
Where are you finding these? I ask because #s 8 and 9 are shots I posted here on WIX a while ago, both of which I or our local museum have the original prints and/or negatives of. Just didn't know if these were also in your collection, or if you've just collected these on the net.

That being said, number 8 is of the Spartan Aero Repair hangar at the end of World War II, as the Spartan Executives were decommissioned from military service and were returned to civil service.

Number 9 is from the inside of the Spartan Aircraft factory. Pictured is the "extra" Spartan NP-1 trainer, built at company expense with volunteer labor as a "+1" above the contracted 200 the company was paid for by the Navy. It was called the "Spirit of Spartan". I have photos of it being given to the Navy, with company President and owner J. Paul Getty making the presentation.

kevin

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Stoney · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 3:13 pm

#6 looks like Tillomock, OR blimp hangar

tulsaboy · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 4:02 pm

Mark-
This gets into a beaten-to-death topic we've often discussed on WIX, copyright as it relates to photos. We don't need to rehash that here. Suffice it to say that as far as these two shots go, they were taken by Spartan Aircraft photographers and that company would have properly claimed those shots. As is, the original prints sit in the collection of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum and in my collection. No worries, just thought I'd ask. Neat photos nonetheless!

kevin

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 5:37 pm

Photo #13,
B-26B -4117562 l/n 221 named Cookie Lee with 22nd B.G.
B-17E- 412426 Delivered to Salt Lake City SAD 11/16/41 xfrd to 11th B.G., 43rd B.S. as a/c #42, xfrd to 5th A.F. on 8/43. RETUS Hendricks 2/12/44, to RFC and sold for scrap 12/31/45
P-38G-13-LO-432206 with 347th F.G. lost in SWP 7/13/43 MACR 83

51fixer · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 6:16 pm

At Planes of Fame in Chino, Calif. they used what was the Cal Aero Academy Engine O/H shop during WWII as a display hangar and workshop.
While being used by POF there was a Coke Machine near the walk in entrance back in the 70s and 80s.
Some one supplied WWII photos of the engine shop in use with equipment and engines being run through the O/H process.
In the same spot was a Coke Machine in the WWII photo.
One kicked out bottles and the other cans but I guess good ideas are universal.

Dan K · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 6:25 pm

The Inspector wrote:

...Roscoe Turner and Amelia, can't figure out who the other woman on the wing of the ORION is.

Laura Ingalls

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 6:46 pm

Dan K wrote:

The Inspector wrote:

...Roscoe Turner and Amelia, can't figure out who the other woman on the wing of the ORION is.

Laura Ingalls

Danke'

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 8:41 pm

The 4 engined seaplane was the CANT Z 511, first flight 9/01/43 the same day Italy signed the armistice with the allied powers. Roughly the same dimensions and gross weights comparable to the C-54 just about 40 mph slower, straffed by British fighters and then sabotaged by the Italians to keep it out of Allied hands.

gregv · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 3:28 am

Mark Allen M wrote:

You guys getting tired of all this yet? .... :wink:

Love the narration some of you guys are posting. Great stuff thx.

In, out and around hangars (and large assembly buildings and blimp hangars etc. etc.)

looks like the nascent NASM collection, when it was still outside maybe? Park Ridge? Note the rare Japanese types in the b/g.

Douglas production somewhere, going by the A-20 nose sections?

looks like the NASM Me 109G werk no. 160756, as FE-496, maybe at Park Ridge? Wright Field? Note that the swastika seems to be reversed.
http://www.oncamouflagedwings.org/loo/loo06.htm
Same aircraft pictured in the ancient ARCO Famous Aircraft Series, photo credited to "USAF"

Agree with the poster above, sure looks like the Tillamook dirigible hangar!

Germany somewhere, and I bet someone got their ass in a sling over this mishap....

Great shots!

greg v.

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