Warbird Information Exchange

As promised, I took some photos of the replica warbirds at the 94th Aero Squadron restaurant next to Palwaukee Airport in Wheeling, IL on the only sunny day we had during the holidays...























I also went to the site of NAS Glenview; the Hangar One building and its control tower have been incorporated into a shopping center...



and the Von Maur store to the right of Hangar One has this Stearman on display...







...which, oddly, is marked as an N3N! The fellow in the last picture is an animatronic figure - stick a quarter in the box and he'll come to life and tell you about the history of NAS Glenview!

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

The Collings Bombers visit their every year. There was a website with a picture of the B-24 when it was the 'Dragon' and in the background you could see the P-38. Here is the main page of the site http://www.hypercontinuum.com/hypercont ... Planes.htm

Then here is the page with the picture on it http://www.hypercontinuum.com/hypercont ... istGun.jpg

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Now I am going to throw up, a stearman marked up as a N3N!!

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Finally!

A shopping mall I wouldn’t mind going to.

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Still may be some buried planes around NAS Glenview! They buried some of the foreign evaluation aircraft there as I recall (J8M?). Also the Vulcan crashed a little bit north of there next to the railroad tracks.

That was XL390 which crashed in August 1978. I didn't witness the accident (it was about two miles northeast of my house), but my mother and I heard about it on the radio and we drove past the site a couple hours after it happened. The plane hit between the railroad tracks and a landfill site just north of the runway, and all that was visible from the road was a large smoldering scar. Some news photos showed pieces of the engines and landing gear. I think the Vulcan was in town for the Armed Forces Day airshow.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

incidentlally did you eat in the restaurant? was it any good? who owns
this place? I didn't even know this was there... and its easy striking distance
for lunch in a cessna! ...

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"The best way to control the future is to create it".

No, I haven't eaten there (it was early afternoon when I shot the photos and they were closed), but my parents have - my dad said it was good the first time and average the second time. Nice view of the runway. They had WWI replicas there before; the landing gear from one of them was sitting behind the kitchen.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Restaurant is owned by Specialty Restaurants, i.e. David Tallichet. Every time I have been there it has been very good.

Vulcan was flying out of Glenview for the Chicago Waterfront Festival. I was on the road and saw it flying low, disappear behind some trees, and erupt into a fiery mushroom cloud. Very sad occurrence. You could see the wreckage and scarring passing by on the train as well.

Anyone ever see the crash report?