Aviation Nation '07 - WWll Action

[Victor Archer]

Here's a couple shots from Sundays WWll demonstration.

[Peashooter]

Re: Aviation Nation '07 - WWll Action

Sweet! BTW, the Spit is a homebuilt with an Allison in it:

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=1940K&cmndfind.x=10&cmndfind.y=12

More here:

http://www.spitfirebuilder.4t.com/custom4.html

[5150]

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AWESOME!! Thanks for sharing!!

[RCoulter]

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Great stuff Victor!

[T. Adams]

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Great shots of Liberty Bell. One B-17 I have yet to see in person. Everybody says it an amazing restoration.

[jarrodeu]

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Neat look in that spitfire shot. Thanks for posting for those stuck at home.

Jarrod

[vodkaandsoda]

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Great shots Victor!!! Do you have any pictures of Ridge Runner on Saturday?

[W J Pearce]

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Great stuff Victor. Mastering the tricky lighting at Nellis. I wonder just how many guys can be crammed into the cockpit of a B-17. I'm guessing Ol 927 was Diamond Lil.

[wingman]

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Yes Bill -- And, it's now mostly in bomber trim. IF1 racer Gary Austin (Retroaviation here) spent all winter fabricating conversion pieces to bring her back to a B-24A (I think)! He wrote a wonderful illustrated months long thread over on WIX about all that was involved...

Neal

[T. Adams]

Re: Aviation Nation '07 - WWll Action

Yes Bill -- And, it's now mostly in bomber trim. IF1 racer Gary Austin (Retroaviation here) spent all winter fabricating conversion pieces to bring her back to a B-24A (I think)! He wrote a wonderful illustrated months long thread over on WIX about all that was involved...

Neal

I was going to say, the WIX thread is only 177 pages long, where have you been Mr. Pearce?

[retroaviation]

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In case you're interested, and if you've got a couple of days to stare at the computer monitor, you can read all about the transformation of our old B-24A back into it's original bomber configuration on this link.... http://warbirdinformationexchange.or...pic.php?t=9395

There are 177 pages of updates (mostly photo updates), just over 2650 posts, and nearly 400,000 views on this thread alone, since October 27, 2006. I'm also intending to continue the thread this winter with more updates as the winter maintenance progresses.

Gary Austin
Crew Chief, B-29/B-24 Squadron
Commemorative Air Force

[Jeff E]

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Wow.. very cool as always Victor.

That is a cool Spit pic.. hard to tell its a home built..

J

[W J Pearce]

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I was going to say, the WIX thread is only 177 pages long, where have you been Mr. Pearce?

Apparently not on WIX! I don't get over there much because (are you ready for this?) there is too much going on. I end up reading way too much, hurting my eyes and not getting any work done (I hear the violins playing). But I will check out some of the 177 pages and try to stop in more often. That way I am slightly less likely to embarrass my self in public.

So Victor, got any more? (only around 10,000)

[jarrodeu]

Re: Aviation Nation '07 - WWll Action

Apparently not on WIX! I don't get over there much because (are you ready for this?) there is too much going on. I end up reading way too much, hurting my eyes and not getting any work done (I hear the violins playing). But I will check out some of the 177 pages and try to stop in more often. That way I am slightly less likely to embarrass my self in public.
So Victor, got any more? (only around 10,000)

That is the same reason I don't go over there very much either. Just way too much stuff. Besides, I should be doing homework instead.

Jarrod

[retroaviation]

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Yeah, but there's a bunch of pictures, so it makes for easy reading.

Gary