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[BE911SC]

Originally Posted by daepp

Check out that wing - what gives?


Any ideas what these are?

Top photo shows what may be the perforated dive flaps of a Douglas SBD (Navy)/A-24 (Army Air Force).

A-24:



Lower photo shows early model (short-fin) Martin B-26 Marauders used for stateside pilot and crew training. Their engines have been removed and thus they are resting nose-up.

Early B-26:

[BE911SC]

Originally Posted by daepp

Check out that wing - what gives?

Upon further review, that is the wing of a Curtiss Helldiver. Navy SB2C and Army AAF A-25.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by BE911SC

Upon further review, that is the wing of a Curtiss Helldiver. Navy SB2C and Army AAF A-25.

I found one of those in the boonies on the North end of Saipan in 1967. Was not in very good shape any more. It was in two pieces.

This was the tail section.

[daepp]

Damn - You guys are good!

The Cal Aero Field listed on the photo refers to current day Chino Airport, the present day home of the Planes of Fame Museum.

"Growing up in the Pomona Valley in the 1930’s, I was surrounded by aviation. You may not remember, but Southern California was the world’s largest producer of commercial aircraft: Douglas, Lockheed, Convair, North American, Northrop, and Vultee. And there were so many small companies located here who were suppliers for the larger manufacturers. Lots of people worked in the aviation industry in those days.

I also witnessed flights of aircraft over my home before, during and after WWII. My friends and I read about all the famous pilots of the day as they made history with their latest daring feats: Charles Lindbergh, Howard Hughes; and war heroes: aces Dick Bong and Joe Foss, Robert Morgan and the crew of the Memphis Belle.

After the war, Cal Aero Field (Chino Airport) was used as a salvage station where the aircraft were brought to be scrapped and recycled into refrigerators and cars, all the products we had given up to support the war effort. I’d grab my camera and head out every so often to photograph the planes and watched the 18 foot steel cutters snap the noses off of B-17’s like they were toys. I saw house-sized mounds of aircraft technical manuals being burned. One of the men working told me I was welcome to all I could carry. I made quite a few trips to save as many books as I could.

Imagine my shock when I saw all the airplanes being cut up. Only a few of the trainers were being saved. It was that realization, that my children and grandchildren might never get to see these beautiful aircraft fly, that the engines that roared over my house would be silenced, that the men who flew them so valiantly would not be able to show their families the wonderful craft that had carried them safely home. I just couldn’t live with that. So the idea for an air museum was born. I opened the first aviation museum on the West Coast, The Air Museum, in Claremont, California in January of 1957 with ten aircraft on display there and our flyable B-17 at Chino Airport. We moved to Ontario Airport when we outgrew that facility in 1963. Then to Chino Airport in 1973, as Planes of Fame Air Museum, where we still operate today." Edward Maloney, from the website.

I highly recommend attending their late spring annual shows if ever you can!

Last year:




Two years ago:




Several years ago:

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NASA adds commercial mini-shuttle to station supply fleet

Sierra Nevada Corporation engineers and technicians prepare the firm's Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle for tow tests on a taxiway at NASA's Dryden.......................

To reach the space station, Dream Chaser will blast off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Florida and land like an airplane at the Kennedy Space Center, or another site, Sierra Nevada Vice President Mark Sirangelo said in an interview.

First Private Dream Chaser Construction Pace Accelerates Toward 2016 Maiden Blastoff: One-on-One Interview With SNC VP Mark Sirangelo (Part 2)
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=66000

SNC’s Dream Chaser blasts off atop ULA Atlas V Rocket on Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)

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[kach22i]

[VIDEO] C2 Split Window Corvette Mud Slinger at Mud Jam
[VIDEO] C2 Split Window Corvette Mud Slinger at Mud Jam - Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle

“We didn’t start with a vehicle at all,” Hahn writes. “It sports a full tube chassis and a 572 crate motor with a full manual race 400 turbo and in case you’re wondering, it’s not a real Vette. We used a highly modified race body and added badges and lights to make it look real. We lowered the rear of the roof and added length to make the huge wheel wells appear right.”

I watched the video, my hovercraft can do the same thing and probably quicker with 1/24th the HP.

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A beer to the first guy who can identify this;

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If you look closely there is a 911 at lower left, coming toward us, in the #2 lane.

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[daepp]

450 hp engine swapped Steerman.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by daepp

450 hp engine swapped Steerman.

...and wheel pants on the Stearman... nice

Where taken?