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- May 31, 2018
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Yes, I've seen those pages in the past, this was fresh take on the topic that I haven't read and enjoyed dozen times yet.You will find more detail over on Joe Baugher's site.
Main P-61 page
Origins page
I wonder if that is the P-61C described in the article as restored and ready for exhibition when they reopen?In 1952 the University of Maryland had a P-61 parked at the school. I wonder what happened to it?
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The Paul Garber facility closed for good years ago. Just as yourself, I was fortunate to see it before they closed the doors. At that time, they were working on Enola Gay. The wings were on the floor being polished.
Cheers,
Really ? What was it for ?I saw some restorers working on a WWI biplane (maybe a Nieuport) and they had all the fabric off the fuselage and if you looked real close they had an appropriately sized rubber band running through the fuselage, from tail to cockpit, a la a balsa wood model.
That is hilarious. Having seen many of those old bi-planes and replicas at the Champlain Fighter Museum in Mesa, Arizona, if you ran a bungee down the middle they'd look exactly like one of the balsa and tissue models.It was a joke for visitors
Nice….. I "got lost" in the B-17 Sentimental Days during Luke Days at Luke AFB, Az… lol I was about 12 and everyone was watching these bi-planes fly by so instead of doing the in and out tour, I stood in the turret watching the whole show pretending I was "in the sht", lolI touched a A6M-5 when no one was looking back in 1986.