Dumby Bombs for Warbird Collection

Sabremech · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:25 pm

I believe this question may have been discussed here before. I'm looking for a source of dumby bombs for our warbird collection to be used as platforms for information plaques. I don't want to google these with the current fear inside our gov't and end up on their list. Any help would be appreciated

systemofadown1162 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:58 pm

Tom d. friedman used to have one for sale:
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5725

Sabremech · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:14 pm

I knew I could find the help I needed from the Wix'ers. Thank you.

Dan K · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:27 pm

One more source:

http://www.banaire.com/

Click on "Military Surplus" and then on "Practice Bombs"

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Those practice bombs are quite small unless your visitors are all under the age of 4...

I have a fiberglass 500 pounder for example that might be a more appropriate size if you want to make some yourself. Not sure where it came from or if anyone has more, but you can make a mold of one. Just a thought.

eric · **Joined:** Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:13 pm **Posts:** 15

Quote:

Those practice bombs are quite small unless your visitors are all under the age of 4...

I have a fiberglass 500 pounder for example that might be a more appropriate size if you want to make some yourself. Not sure where it came from or if anyone has more, but you can make a mold of one. Just a thought.

Ive always wanted to make one of those also, like on the shelf in the Memphis Belle movie.

Any information would be greatly appreciated by me also.

thanks

wendovertom · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:39 am

Well, Wendover has a stash of 2000 pounder loading lugs but then I suppose you are looking for more than that. I have a possibility here in Utah - what are you looking for exactly?

Tom P.

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:38 am

There was a guy at the 2003 Thunder over Michigan show that had a tent full of Dumby Bombs. They also looked GREAT! complete with fuses and arming lanyards.

Sorry but I don't have any info on him. Maybe someone else here does.

bomberflight · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:10 am

Sabremech

The article in Warbirds Diegest ~ 7 on the CAF's B-29 Fifi ~ says they obtained ten 250 pound replica bombs from Matt Hurd's Bombs Away
to hang in the bomb bay.

I have searched on Google ~ but didn't find a web site

and the CAF B29/B24 Squadron web site Contact page only gives a mail address ~ no email or phone number ...........

Sorry I can't be more help

Sabremech · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:14 am

Thanks for all the leads. I visited Cavanaugh's flight museum and they had practice bombs standing on the tail with a plaque describing the history of the airplane it is in front of. We would like to do something similiar. The practice bombs stood at least waist high so you didn't have to bend over necessarily to read them. Im not sure if that would make them 250 or 500 lb versions. Any ideas on the size you could recommend? Then I can try and contact the sources you've kindly given me.
Thanks again

Tim Savage · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 8:26 pm **Posts:** 630

bomberflight wrote:

Sabremech

The article in Warbirds Diegest ~ 7 on the CAF's B-29 Fifi ~ says they obtained ten 250 pound replica bombs from Matt Hurd's Bombs Away
to hang in the bomb bay.

I have searched on Google ~ but didn't find a web site

and the CAF B29/B24 Squadron web site Contact page only gives a mail address ~ no email or phone number ...........

Sorry I can't be more help

Matt Hurd is located in Bryan, Ohio. Do a Google search or PM me and I will give you his number. His work is really great and very realistic.

Tim

needle · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:52 pm

Sabremech,

Spoke with Kevin Raulie at Cavanaugh this evening. From memory, he thinks they obtained the "100lb practice bombs" in about 1993 from either banaire or aero-trader. In the photo of hanger 4 on the home page of the museum web site, www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com you can see several of them, and this gives you a good idea of size in relation to the aircraft.

Looking at the banaire web site (at the address given earlier in this thread by Dan K), the bombs shown under military surplus appear to be the same configuration as the ones used at Cavanaugh.

Needle

needle · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:38 am

Sabremech,

The 100lb practice bombs are also available at "Omaha's original G.I.Surplus" in Fort Worth, TX.

See following link:
http://www.omahas.com/catalog/product_i ... ucts_id=51

Needle

Alan Brooks · **Posted:** Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:00 am

Hey guys! Some of the best replicas I have seen have indeed been from Matt Hurd. Fifi now has a full load...... I have seen these several times... WOW is still all I can say....... If you did not know.... well, you get the idea... here is a link:
http://www.bombsaway.us/

Alan

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:42 am

Alan Brooks wrote:

Hey guys! Some of the best replicas I have seen have indeed been from Matt Hurd. Fifi now has a full load...... I have seen these several times... WOW is still all I can say....... If you did not know.... well, you get the idea... here is a link:
http://www.bombsaway.us/

Alan

That was the vender at Thunder in 2003. If my wife was not with me I just might have bought one. I went as far as to think about how that would go over during an instpection at the Canada boarder :shock:

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