In a bar in Colorado America.
Sections of a B-17 are hung up at the ceiling
As you can see a remarkeble piece of aviotion history is preserved in a bar!
Fuselage sections of the cockpit an the middle section are present!
Some say it was used for the making of 12 O’clock high.
Note the cut out sections in the cockpit
Supposedly, the plane came from California, where they
cut off the wings and the tail. No information on where those
parts went. The ball turret hangs by a chain.
The owners are no dummies. They’ve had many offers for the
equipment.
Photo’s are made by a person who calls himself Maxim96
By: Marauder - 12th January 2004 at 11:03
That’s Kermit Week’s B-24, currently residing in almost airworthy condintion at Polk City. She was ‘flogging the circuit’ for a while in the mid 1990s before Fantasy of Flight opened.
By: Yak 11 Fan - 11th January 2004 at 18:24
😉
What a waste of a B24 though, should have stayed at Duxford so we could have kept an eye on it :p
By: Chipmunk Carol - 11th January 2004 at 18:21
The “point” will be posted to you immediately! Bravo! Bit easy though.
By: Yak 11 Fan - 11th January 2004 at 18:20
Originally posted by Janie
I found this old girl besides a restaurant just outside Chicago in 1994. There’s a point for anyone who can say who owned the restaurant.
David Tallichet?
By: Chipmunk Carol - 11th January 2004 at 18:18
I found this old girl besides a restaurant just outside Chicago in 1994. There’s a point for anyone who can say who owned the restaurant.
P.S. I ate in the old “Dakota” bar near Blackbushe last night. No sign of anything aviation anymore, but the food was bountiful and delicious!
By: Corsair166b - 31st December 2003 at 21:57
I’d be curious to know what bar these shots were taken in….if it’s in Greeley, CO, then they were shot at the bar ‘The State Armory’, a popular college hangout where a friend of mine used to play in his band ‘The Price of Blues’. The plane at the armory was alledgedly used in the ‘Twelve o’Clock high’ TV series. The owner of the armory a couple of summers ago loaded up the CAF’s B-17 ‘Sentimental Journey’ with a bunch of spares he had around his establishment and in his own private storage, and it earned him a ride on the B-17 and a low pass over his house in the country on the B-17’s way to its next stop in Wyoming. Look arond the bar if you get a chance to stop by Greeley some day…there are also a couple of windows upstairs made out of canopies (P-47’s? F-86’s?) and other bits and pieces all around…the B-17’s outer wingas are from a DC-3!
Mark
By: robbelc - 29th December 2003 at 20:03
Just down the road from me was a resturant called ‘Dakotas’ and obviously had many dak parts incorporated in it. The nose was by the bar with fuselarge skining, props, undercarriage along the sides. They put the tail section in the ajacent lake but after many reports of downed aircraft it was removed! It closed down about 18 months ago as the food was never up to much. The dak parts went to the RAF museum(they had come from Malta) and thankfully its a much better pub now!Mmmm could do with a pint!……
Also not too far from me in Woking there was a bar with a Buccaneer over it, and a Hunter on a stick outside, no I haven’t been drinking;) . The Hunter is still there , the Bucc(XX895) left a few years ago. There is a photo in Wrecks And Relics 17.
By: futurshox - 29th December 2003 at 15:34
I found this Beech 18 just outside San Antonio, Texas. Also at a bar 🙂
Edit: I notice the B-17 is advertisgin Fat Tire beer… that’s good stuff, is that 😀
By: Nermal - 29th December 2003 at 11:29
I was rather hoping for something naughty!;) – Nermal
By: SpitfireMK - 29th December 2003 at 11:10
Try this link for the pictures;)
By: Nermal - 29th December 2003 at 10:42
No pix – something naughty on them?:( – Nermal
By: Yak 11 Fan - 28th December 2003 at 21:27
Originally posted by Flood
I saw the Bognor bar-bird last year some time –
Met one of those once, however I suspect that may be a story for a different forum 😀
By: Flood - 28th December 2003 at 20:53
I saw the Bognor bar-bird last year some time – thought it looked like the nose of a Jetstream though. Can’t remember the name of the bar either, but it was on the seafront to the east of the pier (for those brave enough to venture into OAPland-on-sea).
I asked the barmaid about it and she actually looked up and goggled at it like it was the first time she’d noticed it!
Flood.
By: Chris Broad - 28th December 2003 at 20:47
Thats amazing! Imagine popping down a local pub and finding a second world war aircraft hanging from the ceiling! 😀
I know that there is a substantial part of a twin engine (Beech 18 looking) aircraft at a bar in Bognor Regis. (don’t ask! ):p
You stand at the bar ordering your drink, and there it is, staring you in the face, quite an architectual feat in my book!
Can’t think of the name of the bar though, anyone care to admit going to that part of the world? 😀 😀
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