Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:16 am
Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:03 pm
daviemax wrote:hang the expense wrote:Chris Brame wrote:I wanna play too. These two shots of a Swiss cheese B-17E or F were from a photo album sold on eBay:![]()
Only info was it was at a training base in Alabama...
She was an F model and the way to tell is the remains of the single gun mount in the nose.What the heck happened to that plane?
Could she have possibly been damaged by severe weather?
Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:36 pm
Only if Alabama has a record of an anvil downpour
Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:49 pm
Chris Brame wrote:Wild guess: the students would chop pieces out of the skin and use them to make the patches?Only if Alabama has a record of an anvil downpour
Mods, can we please get an emoticon that does a spit take on the computer?
Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:53 pm
daviemax wrote:hang the expense wrote:Chris Brame wrote:I wanna play too. These two shots of a Swiss cheese B-17E or F were from a photo album sold on eBay:![]()
Only info was it was at a training base in Alabama...
She was an F model and the way to tell is the remains of the single gun mount in the nose.What the heck happened to that plane?
Could she have possibly been damaged by severe weather?
Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:59 pm
Wed Jan 29, 2014 6:44 pm
Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:31 pm
The Inspector wrote:Chris Brame wrote:Wild guess: the students would chop pieces out of the skin and use them to make the patches?Only if Alabama has a record of an anvil downpour
Mods, can we please get an emoticon that does a spit take on the computer?
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.
Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:38 pm
Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:45 pm
WIX_Archive wrote:
Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:56 am
Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:13 pm
tom d. friedman wrote: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!!
Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:29 pm
David Legg wrote:contrary to the original poster's photo caption, it is in Saudi Arabia, not Egypt.
Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:39 pm
David Legg wrote:tom d. friedman wrote: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!!
The Catalina is still there but, contrary to the original poster's photo caption, it is in Saudi Arabia, not Egypt.
Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:41 pm
tom d. friedman wrote:
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??