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Re: Chino T-Bolt projects
Posted by bdk on Mon Oct 29, 2001 02:53:03 PM
In reply top Re: Will the real 45-49192 please step forward? posted by Jim Harley on Mon Oct 29, 2001 02:26:20 PM
Lacking any definitive information (just my notoriously faulty memory), "Tar Heel Hal" was the project purchased by Stephen Grey. It consisted of the aforementioned new "N" model fuselage and some "D" model wings, making it a pseudo P-47M.
I recall that there had been extensive damage to at least one of the wings that had the repair completed during finishing at Fighter Rebuilders in Chino.
The airplane was shipped to the UK in bare metal with a red cowl as described.
Part of this project included a damaged fuselage which had been severed just aft of the cockpit, with the cockpit area quite intact. The tailcone was quite a mess.
Was this the Thunderbolt that David Tallichet crashed in Barstow, California?
BK
: My first trip to Chino was in '85...this jug was in the ji
: g at Fighter Rebuilders in "Tar Heel Hal" markings sans wi
: ngs. From what I understood it was a 0 time fuse with the
: rebuilt wings. When completed she was painted in a generi
: c T-bolt scheme of natural metal and a red cowl. The wings
: were also in vertical jigs at the time of my visit. The M
: useum's razorback was in the "yard" receiving its final bi
: ts of paintwork. Ahh the good old days!!
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: Jim