Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In August 1943, it was assigned to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as Kittyhawk A29-448though also marked with serial number A29-1050 on the opposite tail. USAAF Photo) Recreating the Nose Art When the aircraft was recovered, all the cowlings from the firewall forward were missing, leaving no trace of its original nose art.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 29, 2025
For over ten years, the project has been underway, with museum volunteers having built a pair of wings to the same dimensions as the first set of wings on the original, and have built the fuselage, cockpit, and tail surfaces, along with the retractable skid rather than a wheel that Hughes had installed on the original H-1.
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Vintage Aviation News
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
With expander-tube brakes, it is difficult to brake sufficiently to pick up the tail. image via AirCorps Aviation) A view of the forward frame reveals the four holes (boxed in red) for the engine mount bolts (which also pass through the firewall). image via AirCorps Aviation) A side view of the firewall forward subassembly.
Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 28, 2024
In the process, she lost her outer wing panels, engine section and a number of other components, so what remains today consists mostly of the fuselage, from the firewall back, and the tail feathers. With such a short operational life and no combat record, BuNo.36175
Vintage Aviation News
JULY 19, 2024
The power plant modifications plate on the engine bay’s firewall. Using Vought drawings, some of the tail wheel struts were manufactured in-house in our machine shop, for the funding was not available to purchase the exceedingly difficult-to-find components. Today, Ens. The same didn’t happen on the port side.
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
of Charlotte, North Carolina in 1964, where it was registered under the civilian tail number N4716C. The engine was replaced with a newly overhauled R-2800-43/51 by Anderson Airmotive, and the entire firewall forward was overhauled. For several years, the aircraft’s history was quiet until 1975, when it was acquired by Earl E.
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 6, 2024
Brooks had long wished to own an airworthy Flying Fortress as his father, Elton Brooks, had flown 35 missions as a B-17 tail gunner with the 570th BS, 390th BG from RAF Framlingham in England. Left unchecked, the fire consumed most of the aircraft; just the tail and outboard wing sections survived the blaze.
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