Anybody have any updated progress on this B-24 project ?
http://www.questmasters.us/B-24.html
I think it’s based in Canada ?
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By: AirJimL2 - 27th February 2009 at 19:57
The Questmaster guy is from the U.S., but I think he sold out his B-24 stuff to the Yankee Air Museum near Detroit. I’m not sure what the plans are, but they have acquired quite a few B-24 parts.
Jim
By: Steve T - 26th February 2009 at 04:11
Well wow. Hadn’t heard a thing about this one. From the info on the website I’m quite sure the project is stateside, though that substantial aft fuselage section had come from a yard in Canada.
Disappointingly little survives from the numerous RCAF B-24s; the last two more or less complete airframes were scrapped in California in the 1970s after arriving by rail from Canada with extensive damage (the cockpit sections were retained for use in films). The only B-24 “stuff” I’ve seen up here was a cache of internal “bits” from a surplussed RCAF Liberator, which at the time (May 1995) was in the AAviaM collection at Edmonton, Alberta. CAvM at Ottawa, of course, have a complete B-24L/Liberator GR.VIII, but that one, though it wears RCAF coastal markings, is ex-Indian AF.
The aircraft the Quest group is trying to recreate is Ford-built; wonder how close to Willow Run they are based?
S.
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