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Re: Signed and sent...
Posted by Steve T on Fri Aug 15, 2003 07:28:17 PM
In reply top Re: Signed and sent... posted by Jim Bates on Fri Aug 15, 2003 03:57:01 PM
: : USAFM's YB-36 and B-52B...
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: What to Walt? :)
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: Jim
Hee hee...Yes, of course Walt did acquire the remains of the YB-36 and, later, the nose section of the B-52B. He was reportedly furious over USAFM axing the YB-36. He saved what he could...but in its present state the YB-36 hulk is a fine object lesson in large-aircraft preservation. Get the bird indoors...or get ready to tender it for scrap...is the message one gets. USAFM learned the lesson, at least as far as their other B-36 went...it has been indoors for 30 years. But then the B-52B--a recordbreaker no less--went exactly the same way 13 years later! Very unfortunate. And then in 1990 or so a similar thing happened at Hendon with the Beverley, which was one of just two extant.
S.