Warbird Information Exchange

Part 7


SNJ-5B at NAS Litchfield Park 1960


Slightly weathered F-86 Sabre


B-29 Explosives Testing, Bone Yard Davis–Monthan Arizona, 1956

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Only if Alabama has a record of an anvil downpour At a blind guess, it was a weary or badly twisted airframe that was used to train new structures guys how to patch up combat damage.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Wild guess: the students would chop pieces out of the skin and use them to make the patches?

Mods, can we please get an emoticon that does a spit take on the computer?

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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)

Gotta learn someplace, never met a person who had been clubbed with the knowledge stick and intuitivly knew it all-learning to work tin is an art.
the first guy you scurry to get away from is the one who says 'I know EVERYTHING about 'that' because he's gonna kill someone.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Not likely because the skin is removed between the frames and the flap skins on the bottom of the wing have holes in between the ribs as well.She looks like bare metal to me.

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Hang The Expense

i believe that pby is still in the desert, in much worse condition though. take a look at the great condition of the found hellcats 26 years after ww2 submerged in salt water!! remarkable!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

From what I remember reading the Hellcat was raised from rather deep water which is why she was in as good a shape as she was.What a beauty.

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Hang The Expense

I use that line all the time. "If you come across anyone in this industry, who says they know everything, A- they're dangerous. B- They're full of $hit!"

As far as sheet metal goes. It's really easy to make scrap!

BTW, does anyone have some recent shots of that Hellcat? Know its whereabouts?

Thanks

Andy Scott

I believe that Hellcat ended up in Pensacola.

http://machinedesign.com/community/nati ... ifty-years

That sure looks like China Lake to me. By 1956 weren't all the remaining B-29's in the Navy's possession at China Lake?

The name appears to be smiling jack above all the missle damage.

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Hang The Expense

The Catalina is still there but, contrary to the original poster's photo caption, it is in Saudi Arabia, not Egypt.

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David Legg
Editor, The Catalina News
The Catalina Society
Author: Consolidated PBY Catalina - The Peacetime Record

Yah sometimes the "original poster" gets his info fubar'ed, albeit rare though, I knew it wasn't Egypt, just testing to see who is paying attention ...
Who can really trust that whacky original poster anyway to get his stories straight. I certainly can't ....

As for the B-29's either at China Lake or Davis–Monthan Arizona? LIFE archives state Davis–Monthan. They could be wrong as that has happened before as well. All this straightening up of information is what you guys are for.

Same location below as the original photo I posted.

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Zero Surprise!!...

crazy that the pby is out in the desert!! aside from the whipping sand & scavenger souvenir hunters why is this bird so rusty?? look at the raf kittyhawk recovered last year, it's in fabulous shape compared to the cat, & no ocean anywhere nearby w/ salt air!! how close to the salt water is that cat??

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

It's IN the water - between high and low tide marks on the beach IIRC

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49684

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.