• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

New B-17 Hanger...

Wittpilot

Wittpilot

Warbird Guru
Tonight we had a recognition dinner for everyone that volunteers on the B-17... and the neat thing was that it was held in the new museum hanger.... It was a lot of fun and I hope to share a few stories with everyone tomorrow maybe that were told by a 88 year old B-17 pilot with the 301st.... it was the highlight of the night by far...

So far, in the last three years, people have volunteered nearly 46,000 hours of their time in restoration work... with many thousands more to go...

Here are some pictures...no B-17, still in the other hanger...

Sorry for the quality, I took them with my phone..
 
Witt

What is the plane to the left of the Texan in picture 1...the one with the yellow wing? I just can't figure out what it is.

OBIO
 
Ted, it looks like a B-26/A-26, but we'll all probably know in the morning.

The pics are great; hard to believe they came from a camera phone.

Bob
 
OOPS!!! Sorry about that guys... I took the wife over to show her the A-26 because she had not seen it yet, and I must have been jabbering and forgot to take a picture... It is indeed the exact plane that DonnyBrooke posted about... Picture # 4 is taken up through the belly of the A-26...
 
rpjkw said:
Ted, it looks like a B-26/A-26, but we'll all probably know in the morning.

The pics are great; hard to believe they came from a camera phone.

Bob
Click to expand...

Yeah, the iPhone takes some good pictures... or good enough usually when you don't have another camera around...oddly enough though, it does not take video.... you would think it would.... you would think wrong apparently...lol...

-witt


also makes me miss Panther and his iPhone application suggestions... damn him.... when is that ban of his up? wasn't only possibly a month?
 
Nice pictures Witt.
Thumbup.gif


And Panther will be back soon. I'm guessing March 1st if not sooner. Last time I PM'd him he said.... "Soon". ;)
 
Dang... Says something for iPhone camera's, lol... My HP camera doesnt take that good of pictures...


Thanks for sharing Witt. Looks like it was alot of fun.



Bill
 
Lionheart said:
Dang... Says something for iPhone camera's, lol... My HP camera doesnt take that good of pictures...


Thanks for sharing Witt. Looks like it was alot of fun.



Bill
Click to expand...


One other bad thing is that they are all taken in .bmp format... so I always have to convert them to .jpg.... but on the plus side, it is very easy to take a picture, attatch it to an email and send it off... takes probably less than 30 seconds to do all of that...

-witt

[edit]
I think I have a picture from the outside of the museum somewhere around here too.... will have to look...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top