"Dave Stadt" wrote in
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If you feel that way you should purchase them and put them in a museum.
Most would not have survived and will not survive without the intent to
fly. Not much money available for the restoration of static displays.
Lotsa money available for flying restorations. Glaicer girl is an
excellent example.


And the Memphis Belle is an example of a static display going down the tubes.
Still not finished and now moved to Dayton, the US Air Force museum due to
lack of funds to keep the Belle in condition. Those machines were meant to
fly and should be flown. It's really sad to see them rot away on the ground.
In the air they are living history, and give peole a chance to experience the
ground pounding thunder of their mighty engines as they soar overhead. And
very ocaisonally one may get the opportunity to fly in one of them if they
are very lucky as a friend of mine did a few years ago in one of the last
Lancaster bombers left flying.

--
Panzer

"Panzer240" wrote in message
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in
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If you feel that way you should purchase them and put them in a museum.
Most would not have survived and will not survive without the intent to
fly. Not much money available for the restoration of static displays.
Lotsa money available for flying restorations. Glaicer girl is an
excellent example.


And the Memphis Belle is an example of a static display going down the
tubes.
Still not finished and now moved to Dayton, the US Air Force museum due to
lack of funds to keep the Belle in condition. Those machines were meant to
fly and should be flown. It's really sad to see them rot away on the
ground.
In the air they are living history, and give peole a chance to experience
the
ground pounding thunder of their mighty engines as they soar overhead. And
very ocaisonally one may get the opportunity to fly in one of them if they
are very lucky as a friend of mine did a few years ago in one of the last
Lancaster bombers left flying.

--
Panzer


Another grounded B-17G is parked outside at the Tulare, CA Airport
URL:
http://ben92252-01.tripod.com/index.htm
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CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !

You can see "Preston's Pride" a B17G at the Tulare, CA Airport if you go to
the Visalia, CA - DX Convention URL:
http://www.dxconvention.org/

The 57th Annual DX Convention - A must for DXers -- April 21, 22 & 23 2006
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CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !

"Caveat Lector" wrote in message
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Another grounded B-17G is parked outside at the Tulare, CA Airport
URL:
http://ben92252-01.tripod.com/index.htm
--
CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !

Panzer240 wrote:
"Dave Stadt" wrote in
:


If you feel that way you should purchase them and put them in a museum.
Most would not have survived and will not survive without the intent to
fly. Not much money available for the restoration of static displays.
Lotsa money available for flying restorations. Glaicer girl is an
excellent example.


And the Memphis Belle is an example of a static display going down the tubes.
Still not finished and now moved to Dayton, the US Air Force museum due to
lack of funds to keep the Belle in condition. Those machines were meant to
fly and should be flown. It's really sad to see them rot away on the ground.
In the air they are living history, and give peole a chance to experience the
ground pounding thunder of their mighty engines as they soar overhead. And
very ocaisonally one may get the opportunity to fly in one of them if they
are very lucky as a friend of mine did a few years ago in one of the last
Lancaster bombers left flying.

Aww...that's too bad. I only saw her once back in the 80's and she
looked fine back then. I guess I should have questioned (in my mind
anyway) the wisdom of keeping her in open air beside--no, in the middle
of (Mud Island - Memphis)--the Mississippi River; but they went to a lot
of trouble to get her there. It's a shame to have abandoned the effort.

This is a case of perhaps a machine which should only be static
displayed. She's not one of the thousands of anonymous 17's remembered
only by their dwindling numbers of surviving crew; but rather a piece of
history with an unparalleled combat record at the time of her retirement.

She's done her bit...

jak