Chino 14/02/06

I wonder myself, unless it has gone to be re winged ?

I think it is owned by the USAF museum but they have a B29 and a B50 on show ?

I will ask when i go in June, or i will e mail them they are usually very helpful.

curlyboy

curly boy – hmm not something you could miss!! – the car park was in the process of being resurfaced on my visit. Didnt see any sign of the B50! – I wonder where they hid it?

Theres a “secret” junk yard out at Borrego Springs with all sorts of stuff stored there, most of it belongs to Carl at AeroTraders & i seem to recall there being large B29/50 parts….

Further to the above, i found a picture of said B50, it is still listed on the planes of fame website as been there ?

curlyboy

The B50 is in the carpark it is only a fuselage at the moment, it was the 1st aircraft to fly around the world without landing, flypast published my pic of it in the Feb 2002 (i think it was) issue.

It is supposed to be getting the wings from a scrapped KC97 tanker, maybe they have’nt got around to it yet ?

curlyboy

Curly boy – Didnt see anything of a B50! and looks like ther is lots to do on the B17 (only open for walkthroughs at weekends)

also visited Yanks air museum at chino – lots of interesting aircraft but kind of weird place!

here are a few snaps of Yanks

[QUOTE=richb]just a few ( of far too many!) pics of my visit to Chino

You can never have too many!!! Keep them coming.

Peter

Going myself in June, nice pics glad to see they have done something with the B17 at last, have they got the wings for the B50 yet ?

curlyboy