Warbird Information Exchange

...and the skies are not cloudy all day...


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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

I should also point out she was NOT airworthy when rec'd
by BMP. When landing to turn her over to ICE agents,
Hendrickson succeeded in hitting a backhoe tearing up an
outer wing panel and collecting a prop strike. Further,
when disassembled by the WWAR crew the fuel cell behind
the pilot was removed and never reinstalled. Also control
cables and hyd lines in the fuselage were severed. She
will never fly again because of "perpetual liability" which
does disturb me. But, I sure am happy with where she is
today. I have wanted a dark blue navy airplane with a
round motoe and a tail hook since Katrina killed our Corsair.
Now I have one.................

But dust can be a problem (see link 2 above my post).

Oh and this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W4Cx44XKZ4

Comparing Hurricane Katrina to the standard season is also not really representative of the normal season. Katrina was a Cat 5 hurricane and was one of the wost hurricanes since the 1920's. A storm with the power of Katrina doesn't hit often. I agree that there is no 100% safe place for them, and you have to do the best you can. The USS Alabama museum is a great museum, with hard working employees and volunteers. They have made improvments since the storm and have done a great job bouncing back.

I always have said that there is room for static and flyers. I don't really like it when a flyer becomes grounded, but atleast we can agree that it is in good hands where it is. If you want to blame someone for the airplane no longer being a flyer, The NMNA, USS Alabama Museum, and the US government are NOT the people you need to be pissed at.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

Does anyone know how New Orleans (the D-Day museum has some planes in there), the USS Alabama and the USN museum at Pensacola fared?

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Life member, 91st BG Memorial Association
Owner, 1944 Willys MB #366014
Former REMF (US Army, O3)

No prob at BB60 or NNAM. As D-Day Museum survived Katrina
with almost no damage I am optomistic about them.

Katrina was a Category 3 when it came ashore with a Category 3 Storm Surge. People forget it lost a lot of strength just 24 hours before coming ashore. The problem Mobile had was that it was on the worst side of the hurricane. Just as New Orleans and Plaquemine Parish just found out with Isaac, just because it says "Category X" doesn't mean that it won't have an impressive storm surge (although Isaac had a Cat 2+ Storm Surge). Galveston learned the lesson with Ike. Came ashore in such a way that the storm surge to came from Galveston Bay, which is unprotected.