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Elroy13
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This is fantastic!!! :lol:

http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNe ... wone&id=45

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I already checked Ebay for the model kit... :? nothing!

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The kits pop up now and again on epay. There were two kits released, actually, in different scales... 1/48 & 1/72.

The 72nd SPAD kit with the bomb has been released a few times, I believe. But if you can find the 1/48th kit it's quite
the collector's item, as it was only released once, back in the 80s. Hasegagme reboxed the old Monogram kit with a new
sprue for the 'bomb'. I wish I'd kept mine, although I did have the sprue and kit decals until recently.


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Hmmm,
While I was picking up the turret parts at the salvage yard and hauling them back to Creve Coeur Airport, I was searching a dark room in the building's attic when my flashlight pinpointed a small boxed item. Through the slats, I thought I could see what looked like a NOS turbo from a B-17. I hauled it down the stairs only to discover in better lighting, a small NOS toilet in a crate. Everyone had a good laugh at my expense but I did take the toilet.

I do have a key to Eric Downing's A1-E hangar at Creve Coeur. The turret parts hangar is right around the corner from the Skyraider's. I do have some shackles. Eric is out of town for a few days. A few more beers and this might just happen this evening. :partyman:

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Post pix!!!! LMAO


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they all should have taken a dump in it till it was filled to the top ,& then mounted it & dropped it on the enemy!!

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they all should have taken a dump in it till it was filled to the top ,& then mounted it & dropped it on the enemy!!



Can't that's biological warfare!!
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STRANGE MILITARY USE OF CIVILIAN PARTS
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I do have a key to Eric Downing's A1-E hangar at Creve Coeur. The turret parts hangar is right around the corner from the Skyraider's. I do have some shackles. Eric is out of town for a few days. A few more beers and this might just happen this evening.

Do it, Albert, do it!! Drink! drink! drink! drink! drink! hoot! hoot! hoot!!

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Hmmm,

I do have a key to Eric Downing's A1-E hangar at Creve Coeur. The turret parts hangar is right around the corner from the Skyraider's. I do have some shackles. Eric is out of town for a few days. A few more beers and this might just happen this evening. :partyman:


Do it! We will be doing a walk around (like this http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/NA ... round.html) of Eric's A-1 in the near future so make sure you take a picture!

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i read somewhere that a b17 crew tried flushing gasoline or napom out of a toilet located in the bomb bay to blind the fighters coming in from below. anybody else heard of this story?? i cant remember where i read it. also does anyone out there have the link to the ruby lake alaska b17 parts recovery? i found a small segment of it on the my gal sal website but i know that there is a better site with more photos somewhere. tanx. sim. :toimonster:
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does anyone out there have the link to the ruby lake alaska b17 parts recovery? i found a small segment of it on the my gal sal website but i know that there is a better site with more photos somewhere. tanx. sim. :toimonster:


Is this the one you are looking for?
http://www.airpirates.com/gallery/ALASKA?page=1
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Wicked pictures!

Thanks for the link!

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Well I think if I were to hit the Lotto, that would be a cool thing to do for a Skyraider restoration! :twisted:

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