Steve Nelson wrote:
mustangdriver wrote:
She is a Tallichet bird. One of the first warbird projects I ever got to volunteer on when we had it at Beaver Falls, PA at Air Heritage. We had a complete aircraft inside, and then two partial fuselage parts donors outside. One of the parts planes was used in a guy named joe and still had the Japanese markings on it.
That aft fuselage section is now at Pima, along with a set of wings from Million Dollar Valley. I'm not sure if that's where their forward fuselage came from.
SN
I photographed those fuselage parts at Chino in 1983:
Not so sure about their use in
A Guy Named Joe, however - there were (IIRC) only A2A shots of B-26s playing Bettys in that film, which were filmed in Florida.
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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)
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