HI! To all ,I'm Building a B24L RC as we speak. You can get the wings ,tail section and other parts to build your plane from WOW Planes.com. For all you Enthusiest ,I just had my cousin Harry T. Baseleon's B24L plane put on the web. IT is called the "PREGNANT DUCK".The plane was built at the ford willow run plant. Look at the nose art.
i am looking for a b24 for static display for carswell afb. we just need wings and fuselage to make one out of a PB4Y2. if you know where or how we can get something let me know. thx
I am looking for a specific Lockheed Lodestar Msn 2102 Ser No 42-68347
This aircraft was last registered as N796G and located in Washington. The FAA does not have it on the register to date. It had a chequered career during it's knowing life before and after WW2. It also saved my life and others escaping from the Japanese. My father flew this aircraft from West Java to Broome Australia (8.5 hours over water) arriving with 5 minutes fuel remaining.Sheer luck prevailed, as the Japanese were attacking the airfield and many flying boats in the Bay of the coast of Broome.Except for the Lodestar, all other aircraft were destroyed.
This Lodestar was taken over by the USAAF for use in New Guinea, however it was flown by Qantas pilots,Australian register VH-CAA, painted with the US star, and identified as the original Dutch L9-07.
After the war , it was sold to a New Zealand airline company and resold to company in Boston MA in1951. After many other changes(15) it ended up as N796G in Washington and sold to an unknown source.
There are4 people from that era and 2 authors( Australia and Europe) writing books of this period , but they are asking me for the end of this Lodestar, of which I cannot give them, i.e is it broken up for parts, resting in a museum,flying somewhere else?
Seeing your Lodestar being overhauled in the albums , I wonder, could it be the one I am looking for. If it is not the one , could I ask you if you have any information as to where it could be? If it is flyable, it would be the oldest Qantas aircraft flying today.
I was happy to discover your collections, especially those regarding the Yankee Air Museum. I am a life member of that organization, but since the fire I have found it difficult to visit Willow Run. Through your collection I can happily recall the times in Hangar 1 and all the people who I knew then. Thank you sincerely for your efforts. JRB
Thank you for sharing, the Love for our Country is still strong. The Honor that all military personal feel must be overwhelming. Just looking at the picture gives me the PRIDE, HONOR, and FREEDOM that our country stands for. Thank you.
Enjoyed all the pictures a lot because they brought back memories of my days in the 8th Air Force, 392nd Bomb Group flying B-24s from England over Germany. The airplane performed well and got us home safely from 16 missions. Needless to say we have fond memories of the B-24. I was an Armorer, Gunner and flew all missions in the nose turret of the B-24. I also dropped most of the bombs on those missions. There was a toggle switch in my turret that allowed me to drop our bombs when I saw the first bomb fall from the lead aircraft in a formation of ten airplanes. The lead and alternate lead aircraft had Sperry bomb sights and a bombardier. The other eight planes had "Toggliers", like myself, who dropped the bombs. This was called "Saturation bombing" and was very effective in destroying rairoad yards, arifields, ballbearing factories, etc. There were nine men in our crew who all came home safely. Today there are five of us left. I hope the sacrifices that were made, at that time in our History, are not thrown away by the the powers that are running our Country today. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Outstanding pictures per the B-24 history....love prop aircraft...I flew on B-29's, KB29P, KB29M, B-50's and C-47's as Sr. Radio Operator out of Roswell, N.Mex. Walker AFB in the late '40's and early 50's. What a collection....
My Dad flew in the B-25 and I got in touch with these wonderful people at the Yankee Air Musuem about him possibly getting a ride. We drove from MI to Maryland for an air show, my Dad drove from Va to Fredrick Md for hopes of getting a ride in the show but they couldn't do it for insurance reasons. They told me if my Dad ever came to MI they would take him up for a ride. I just happened to email them when my parents decided to make a trip up 6 years ago, my Dad was 80 years old at the time. They called me and invited my Dad, my husband and I up for a free ride, they were planning a 45 minute ride. The day before it poured like crazy, and the last day was for this flight the next day, actually they had pulled it in from it's last flight and were about to take the oil out when they got my email. They ended up having my Dad flying in the nose of the plane and my husband and I in the plane, for an hour and a half long ride! They did a fly over over Metro airport, flew over the Detroit River, we saw the sunset, it was one of the most precious days with my father in my life. He wrote a book about his experiences in the war, and gave them all a copy and one for the museum which was lost of course in the fire, they gave us special shirts with the Mitchell B-25 on it and I had all of the guys sign it, I often wonder flying over downtown Detroit, if anyone wondered who that was in the nose of that beautiful plane,,,,little did they know it was my 80 year old Father who proudly served our country. They did this ride just for us, and one other man doing a story on the plane came up, is that unbelievable or what? Thanks to MaryAnn and all who put this together so quickly for my Dad, William M. West. his daughter, gail zeolla
Your pictures in Nov. HH of Dick and me being recognized by the German Embassy at Youngstown Air Reserve Base are great, the ones my wife took did not come out to good. As I wrote in the picture comments, by a SNAFU of the Air reserve unit my certificate did show up in time, but she got in her office the following Mon morning and mailed it to me.You do a great job for the Museum keep it up...Rich....
Guest Anonymous wrote:
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 7:47 PM
Did you get any photos of the ground crew living historians at Terra Haute?
Kos: Everything that the photographers gave to me is in this album
Thought I'd drop you a note to tell you how much I enjoy gointg through your files of photos. My interests are car, planes, boats, buildings, etc. etc. - Also into much photography with 35mm Pentax SuperProgram, Sony Digital and others.
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