My trip to Tillamook Air Museum - Photographs

[Stephanie]

Galveston's climate is probably as bad or at the least on a par with Tillamook but thank goodness Mr. Waltrip and I suppose some others at the getgo saw fit to construct environmentally controlled hangers for the collection. Personally I just wish I had the bucks to bring "Silver Lady" back to Texas where she belongs and needs to fly. She had a nice comfortable home in Breckenridge. Call me sentimental...

Understandable... I think she'd be happier flying the blue skies of TX too. Much like I think I'd be happier at home in Texas.

[Brad]

Lots of happy memories with that airplane and the good people that operated her back in the day!


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[george]

It just seems like a sad, lonely, remote situation there. All those beautiful airplanes that could and mostly did fly. Its like the P-38 crash just took the life out of the place. And yes, Silver Lady just seems like it ought to be in Breckenridge.

[Dennis Bergstrom]

Stupid question... why are the aircraft grounded? The P-38 flew with the Collings Foundation bombers a few years ago (ok, more than five now) and I thought I had seen the P-47 in the air recently as well?

I drove down to Tillamook with a friend on December 4th to take pictures of the Oscar. We were told that the last warbird of Jack's to fly there was the P-47 in the Fall of 2003 when John Muszala flew it in from Idaho. So, the Thunderbolt hasn't flown since it landed from the restoration shop. The Oscar was brought up by truck from Arizona this Fall.

Dennis

[Jack Cook]

So, the Thunderbolt hasn't flown since it landed from the restoration shop.

So, what's the point

[Mike]

If you have a photo of the Corsair with its French Navy markings I would love to see it.

There you go. Taken at Duxford in the summer of 1989.



Those are its original French Navy markings from the Suez invasion of 1956.

[K5DH]

Much like I think I'd be happier at home in Texas.

Hey Steph, when you get down here to the D/FW area (all warbird freaks MUST visit Texas!), be sure to let us Texas WIX'ers know you're coming! I'm sure you'll get the "royal" treatment fit for a "Queen".

When you visit us at VFM, I'll give you a personal tour of the B-17.

Cheers!

[needle]

Looks to me like the MiG is for sale on eBay...

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Julian

[Stephanie]

Much like I think I'd be happier at home in Texas.

Hey Steph, when you get down here to the D/FW area (all warbird freaks MUST visit Texas!), be sure to let us Texas WIX'ers know you're coming! I'm sure you'll get the "royal" treatment fit for a "Queen".

When you visit us at VFM, I'll give you a personal tour of the B-17.

Cheers!

I was in Texas back in November and will be there again for sure in April. Might be coming down in February as well, but that trip isn't set in stone like the April trip. Think you should meet up at the LSFM show in Galveston!

[Dennis Bergstrom]

It just seems like a sad, lonely, remote situation there. All those beautiful airplanes that could and mostly did fly. Its like the P-38 crash just took the life out of the place. And yes, Silver Lady just seems like it ought to be in Breckenridge.

Here's a few more pictures of Silver Lady.

Dennis

[Stephanie]

It just seems like a sad, lonely, remote situation there. All those beautiful airplanes that could and mostly did fly. Its like the P-38 crash just took the life out of the place. And yes, Silver Lady just seems like it ought to be in Breckenridge.

Here's a few more pictures of Silver Lady.

Dennis

Nice pictures, Dennis!

[Stephanie]

If you have a photo of the Corsair with its French Navy markings I would love to see it.

There you go. Taken at Duxford in the summer of 1989.

Those are its original French Navy markings from the Suez invasion of 1956.

That's beautiful, I really like the paint scheme. Makes me wish now that it hadn't been repainted. Thank you for sharing that!

[Bill Greenwood]

Very interesting photos! Is that a genuine Oscar, is it flyable? The Spitfire MkVIII is the actual prototype for all the 2 seat versions. It was G-AIDN and was raced after the war by Ms. Lettice Curtis. One day I almost bumped into Ms. Curtis at High Wycomb airifield. I introduced myself, she was very gracious, and turning to her friend said " and of course you know Lady Bader," leaving me a bit speechless! Athough the VIII was near Houston for a few years, I have not seen it . I'd really like to sit in the cockpit, even better fly, it to see how it compares to all the others which were Mk IX conversions.

[Stephanie]

Thank you for the photo compliment, I appreciate it. I would actually like to know the same about the Oscar, I am not sure how many of those planes are actually flyable. I tried to find someone to ask questions to while I was there but as it was the last open day they seemed to be running on a bit of a skeleton crew. I will have to do some research and see what I can find out.

Sounds like quite the impressive run in with Ms. Curtis, wow... how cool. I can't wait to start spending some more time at airshows and aviation events, it would be amazing to talk to some of these people and hear their stories.

Thanks for sharing yours.

[Jack Cook]

Is that a genuine Oscar, is it flyable?

Hi Bill,
It's one of the recent reproductions. On the flyable question.
Well???? Did I read right , it was trucked in. I'll assume this
is the one that had the gear failures.