Warbird Information Exchange

There are lots of cold war types not on display in the USA that I would like to see:

UK:
Victor
Buccaneer
Attacker (1 sole survior)
Sea Vixen

USSR:
Tu-95 bear
Forger
Foxbat (not sure the one dug out in Iraq is on display?)
Variouis Mil Helo's
Various Sukoi fighters

From earlier times:
DH Hornet/Sea Hornet
Sterling

Extinct types:
Stiring
TBD
Ta 154
He 70
DH Albatross
He 51
He 112

Extant but far-flung, unrestored or undisplayed types:
Ki-84
Ta 152
Do 17
Northrop Gamma
D3A

August

Extinct ....................B-32 (Not really as there is the one on the Moon)!!!

Oh, you tease me...now I'm going to wonder which one of the planes in my post is getting some attention.

No doubt to me, I think this is the one single type of airplane I most wish was in a museum somewhere.

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Former REMF (US Army, O3)

I'd love to see a few more extinct or near-extinct thirties types:

Keystone bombers (there's a wing center section on the range at Edwards plus a tail recovered from a bombing range back east, plus two wrecks in Nicaragua - s/ns 29-13 and 29-16 - that were supposed to have been recovered in the late '60s/early '70s)

Curtiss SOC floatplane - one of the few '30s types that ended up being used all through WWII, but (IIRC) no remains have turned up

Martin B-10 - Besides the one at NMUSAF, there's a nose turret at March ARB, a wing in Indonesia and possibly more - FlyPast reported in the 1980s that a crashed export version B-10 had been found in Indonesia by loggers - not sure if the wing came from that one

Curtiss P-36 - could a new one be built starting with some P-40 components?

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I love this idea.

I have to agree with the XF-11 (loved it since The Aviator, and the conventional prop version seems pretty cool too) and Spiteful/Seafang.

For me the CA-11 Woomera, Sikorsky S-67, XP-77, Blue Thunder (not sure if that counts?!), XP-40Q...

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Since we're talking about Bong and P-38's

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19600295000

I doubt any of them are still around, but I'd love to see a P-38 Lindbergh flew as a civilian while in the Pacific theater.

We wouldn't want to see a Maxim Gorky?

Or a Kalinin K-7.

Easy. YB-60.

How about the Convair XC-99? Yes, I know it still exists, but it's been cut up into pieces which are scattered across various locations. It hasn't been displayed in a long time. I got to see, tour, and photograph it when it was displayed outside Kelly AFB back in the late 1980s. It was in horrible condition even back then, suffering from the ravages of weather, vandals, and bird droppings (which eat up magnesium badly). Such an interesting airplane.

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Port Charlotte, Florida

If it is the one I am thinking of it is on display in the NMUSAF experimental annex hanger, or at least it was when I was there in 2008.

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How about the MIG-31... You know, the one Clint Eastwood made off with?

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Owner, 1944 Willys MB #366014
Former REMF (US Army, O3)

My idea would be to fill gaps in the development history of certain important types or manufacturers; such as:

Douglas DC-1 and DC-5 (Imagine a line up from DC-1 to 10!)
Republic P-43 Lancer
Berliner Joyce P-16 (Last US Army biplane two place fighter aircraft)
Grumman FF-1 and F2F plus F5F and F10F (Imagine an unbroken line up from FF-1 to F11F!)
Curtiss YP 37
Boeing B-9
Consolidated Commodore
Martin M 130 Clipper
Sikorsky S 42 Clipper
Boeing 314 Clipper

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