Aero Vintage Books

Note the different stencil styles on either side of the nose. Wonder when it got the cowboy nose art?

Hmm. One more screen grab: nice 1920 atmosphere, except for the '56 Chevy in the background

From HeliOps Magazine's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/heliopsmagazine https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/348226502_1672893846489886_4293970859181973455_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=BYhB1Wi0LWwAX8SRftJ&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=00_AfD2I8L1kag-IeYvtOCQ0I_pqIj...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52889304176_20958bc150_o.jpg https://www.ebay.com/itm/225570596637 Per Baugher: 42-31814 delivered Cheyenne Dec 24, 1943, to Great Falls Dec 26, 1943, to Cheyenne Jan 7, 1944, to Omaha Jan 9, 1944, to Lakeland Jan 11, 1944. In forced landing at New Haven, Connect...

Never knew they had a 00! Makes sense; 00-99 makes an even hundred.

I was looking up accidents occurring with B-17s from Buckingham Field in Florida and came up with only one G-model: 42-97897 had a landing accident in Texas on May 25, 1945. AAIR lists it with the 2118th Base Unit at Buckingham, but Osborne has it at Gulfport, MS. Are there any accident photos that ...

Is that a Buckingham plane? I've been looking for Buckingham B-17s as the Paducah plane started its career there. Other aircraft types based there had "FM###" fuselage codes, but the only two Forts from that field I've found have two-digit numbers like Sebring or Lockbourne (from a YouTube video abo...

Not airbrushed I don't think; I think it's either very faded yellow or possibly the type of film used? I've seen some other trainer photos where the serial is barely visible but the codes stand out well, and vice versa (OD/NG Yuma ships are an example). Also note the "GI" looks like it's painted ove...

On eBay right now in a large photo album: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52792547155_d504fd1bb2_h.jpg First Grand Island trainer I've seen. And now, in actual vintage color (had to fix it a bit): https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52792390554_7d9b82b545_o.jpg There's another full color overall...

Good stuff, Scott! The shot of B-17F 42-3470 was a great find - wonder what that nose art says. Unusual to see the star-and-bar not painted out. Gotta help where I can... First, a cropped enlargement of B-17G 43-38978 at Corvallis: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51716651246_21aeb94b4d_h.jpg Nex...

Sold for $15.50 - someone here get them?

Best photos are of 41-2531 #13 (hard landing?) and 41-9117 #21 (tail chewed by B-17F 42-30946):

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Way in the background and partly hidden by a C-74 at Wold-Chamberlain Field in Minneapolis, here's B-17G 43-38635 (now Virgin's Delight at the Castle museum): https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52746863090_a473026a15_k.jpg Taken March 14, 1947; in the last days of its career with Honeywell before g...

L.A. Times, August 20, 1945; ID confirmed. Is that a retrofitted B-17G main wheel?

From 1974: https://www.ebay.com/itm/394393240202