Salt air corrosion photos
Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:55 am
Or alternately why you shouldn't store your warbird outdoors near the ocean...
B-25
Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:20 am
Yikes 
...almost as bad as the Lake Greenwood bird! Are they going to part this one out? Maybe I can talk my friend into getting the hulk and putting it on the roof of his warehouse, like the ex-Mackie A-26!
...almost as bad as the Lake Greenwood bird! Are they going to part this one out? Maybe I can talk my friend into getting the hulk and putting it on the roof of his warehouse, like the ex-Mackie A-26!
Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:28 am
That poor old Mitchell. Is that a PV-2 in the background?
Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:57 am
You read somewhere on the internet that does not matter how much material came off .. All you have to do is put bondo on it and it is good as new! 
Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:26 am
Amazing what the exposure to salt can do just from the air alone.
B-25J s/n.44-31504
Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:11 am
I hope Aerotrader can find her a good home !
This bird is well worth saving, even if it means replacing some substantial airframe sections. Its not every day you come across a B-25.
Where I come from, there aren't any B-25s
It wont be long before these babies fetch a Million bucks
Keep Em Flying
Lightning
This bird is well worth saving, even if it means replacing some substantial airframe sections. Its not every day you come across a B-25.
Where I come from, there aren't any B-25s
It wont be long before these babies fetch a Million bucks
Keep Em Flying
Lightning
Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:32 am
Tony Ritzman says that most any restorable (to airworthy) B-25 project out there will need some attach angles and spar caps replaced with new parts anyhow. They've had them made up for restorations in the past. The skins are easy. Much much more has been done with less.
Lockheed in back is one of the Kermit Weeks examples. The other one is in Mesa, AZ.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/pv2harpo ... 37202.html
Lockheed in back is one of the Kermit Weeks examples. The other one is in Mesa, AZ.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/pv2harpo ... 37202.html
Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:34 am
Which B-25 is this?
Aerotrader B-25J
Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:49 am
Hawain B-25J s/n.44-31504 now with Aerotrader
Get Em Flying
Lightning
Get Em Flying
Lightning
Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:49 am
mustangdriver wrote:Which B-25 is this?
I think it is: 44-31504
Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:50 am
Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:32 pm
So which did they get in return?
Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:59 pm
Mustangdriver,
Have you been out in the Monongahela with your fish finder looking for that B-25 lol? My whole family is from Pit and of course they all know of my longtime interest and involvement with B-25s so every time we drive by the river I get the whole story behind the B-25.
Have you been out in the Monongahela with your fish finder looking for that B-25 lol? My whole family is from Pit and of course they all know of my longtime interest and involvement with B-25s so every time we drive by the river I get the whole story behind the B-25.
Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:07 pm
You know it. The story says that it was never recovered, but I talked to a retired railroad worker who operated cranes. He said that the same day that it crashed, they went down, cut it up and threw it in the back of some flat cars. Remember that in the 50's the B-25 was just another old airplane. It was really transporting triggers for the atomic bomb. All survived the water landing when the plane ran out of gas trying to make it in to KAGC (where I now work). But for some reason, one man went back in, and was trapped in the bombay and drowned when it sank. It is still a great story, and some say that the railroad guys are wrong that they actual cut up a C-47 that also ditched in the water and that the B-25 is still in the river. The railroad guys don't know what kind of plane it was.