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True. The entire tail would have come off. Then, I was involved in an incident of similarity with tail gunner Joe Frank Jones who rode the tail...
I forgot to mention that the tubing runs on the front spar of the B-52 and KC-135 have flex loops in them to work when the wing bends in flight. I...
That is B-17, "ALL AMERICAN" after it had been rammed by an ME-109 in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Somewhere over Africa. They figure...
Thank you, I enjoy everybody here very much. I'm very fortunate and appreciative to have seen and done so many things. One thing that I learned is...
I witnessed a B-52 scramble at Larson AFB in the 60's and they didn't have a staggered setup. They took off at fairly close intervals blind and...
Do any of you Hotshots know what the fuel consumption is for this engine in gallons per hour?
I think that I mentioned this before. The belly turret of the B-17 did not retract. There was no reason to because there was ample room between...
Again at Langley , our barrack was right at the end of the ramp where all the B-17's and B-24's made their runups before turning on to the main...
At the last air show at Langley Field in 1945, they put three training squadrons up and made a fly over . There were 34 of them at about 5000 ft....
Wow! Impressive ! You are doing a lot of work here. I gave all of my B-17 data to Boeing archives and I wish that I could have supplied the loft...
When an inspector finds a flaw in a part, it is marked with a small white marker that is stuck to the item next to the flaw. It could be a...
My apologies ! ! I assumed that it was a finished model. It is a great accomplishment and well done ! ! When I was working at Boeing I had the...
Beautifully done model and excellent flying ability but It would be nice to understand his speaking . Why in the world would you paint the...
I may have posted this a while back. We had an all hands meeting by the director of the 767 program to talk about cutting costs. A comment about...
Years ago when i was working on the first 767 we went down to see the arrival of the first fuselage panels and pressure dome from Japan and...
All kinds of good things happened when subassemblies were shipped by rail. One vertical fin arrived from a coach builder outfit that had a number...
Many times when fuselages of KC-135's arrived in Renton they had small caliber holes in them. It has been going on for years. Any unprotected...
[ATTACH] Unveiled for the first time! From area code 206, the Secret Stealth Sulami.
The Black Suits in Chicago have managed to infect the engineering "culture" with their profit wizardry and cut -backs or other reduced cost magic...
i know, my brother-in-law flew them there as well as T-6 artillery spotters. He flew B-26's, B-25's, and A-26's. Liked the B-25 "just for easy...
