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DIK SHEPHERD wrote:How does the PC-WIX site do it?

Hey Dick I wish you would lay off the whole PC crap it's getting rther old and tiresome.

Go get a photobucket account or better yet go ask you buddy O'Leary to load up some photos on there site.

On April 15, 1986, F-111Fs left Lakenheath on a mission to bomb Libya. It was called Operation El Dorado Canyon. One plane went down during the raid, callsign Karma-52, piloted by Major (then Captain) Fernando Ribas-Dominicci with Captain Paul F. Lorence in the WSO seat. With vatican intervention, M...

Hi Scott,

Just wondering if you plan on doing a third edition to the your B-17 book and do you plan on doing a second edition to the Mitchel book.

Things are going pretty well right now with the Rat. Working on the area below the cockpit. Will be replacing several of the catwalk tubes (the lower one split, and the upper has corrosion issues), will replace a longeron once the order comes in, and we also hope to hang the nose this year. Will be...

ThreeInTheGreen wrote:I am curious what is the make and model of the B-17 top turret?

Thanks

The top turrets were Sperry build they all had different types of glass.

Bill, I wonder why more of the groups don't form Co-Ops i would think it would help with restoration. Think about if the B-25 guys could get the main spar stuff build The Corsair guy if they decide to set aside there bickering they could get the main Wing Spar done and then we could see at least six...

Hi Bill, This was the B-17 Co-Op was thinking back in the mid 80s when everyone was starting to put turrets on so they all got together made a run on the Nose Glass and both the top and bottom Turret Glass and the rings for both. I've always thought it would be easier to have a group go together on ...