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Post by milspec on Mar 22, 2007 21:13:37 GMT -5
Greetings Gentlemen, I found some old pictures of the SilverHill (Paul E. Garber) Restoration and Storage facility of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Its a very interesting and exciting place to see. They have tons and tons of stuff thats aviation related that they don't have space for in the Mall museum. Some of these stuff are now in the Udvar Hazy museum in Dulles Virginia. View of the storage buildings, Baka bomb, F6F Hellcat with folded wings Serian WWII Japanese floatplane during restoration,Northrop N1M Flying Wing Prototype. Martin Built B-29 "Enola Gay" undergoing restoration i101.photobucket.com/albums/m45/milspec/silverhillpt3.jpg[/IMG]milspec
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Post by milspec on Mar 22, 2007 21:15:11 GMT -5
Addendum Here's the picture of the Matin built B-29 "Enola Gay" undergoing restoration. milspec
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Post by milspec on Mar 29, 2007 19:45:00 GMT -5
Greetings Gentlemen, I found some more pictures of some of the treasures in the Smithsonian Silver Hill Facility. More shots of the Serian undergoing restoration. Hawker Hurricane, Boeing P-26a, Northrop P61B Me 410, FW 190, Japanese WWII Shinden milspec
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Post by VeeVee on Mar 29, 2007 19:49:25 GMT -5
It would be nice to have one of those P-26's painted in Phil. Air Corp colors and displayed back home. The plane that Jesus Villamor flew against the Japanese.
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Post by milspec on Mar 29, 2007 20:02:12 GMT -5
Greetings Victor,
Nice to hear from you. It really would be nice but alas there are only 3 P26s that still exist. One in the Smithsonian, One at the Planes of Fame Museum (the only flying one), and one, I'm not really sure of, in the USAF museum. There is one gentleman who is building an authentic flying replica. There were plans before to build a 1/1 scale replica (static model) for the PAF Museum. But there was no place to put it and they could not raise the funds to finance it. It never materialized.
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Post by milspec on May 20, 2008 21:48:19 GMT -5
Greetings gentlemen, Here's an article about a B-17 that saw service in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion. milspec
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Post by legionnaire on May 20, 2008 22:28:55 GMT -5
I have this 1/72 model kit of the "Swoose"! I wonder wne will it ever be displayed or made into flying condition. B-17's my favorite classic bomber of WWII.
Philip
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Post by milspec on May 20, 2008 22:39:40 GMT -5
Greetings Philip,
The B-17 is also one of my favorite bombers of WWII. I built a Revell 1/48 scale kit of the "Memphis Belle" about 15 years ago. I believe that a plane as rare as this B-17C will be restored only for static display and will not be flown. The Airforce Museum in Dayton Ohio is currently restoring the actual B-17F "Memphis Belle" .
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