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July 15, 2005 at 4:19 am in reply to: Seattle Museum of Flight #1391475

D. Bergstrom
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I’m off to Seattle next week on business, but have secured a few days to myself. The conference that I am attending has its dinner on the final night, and guess what- its in the museum of flight 😀 😀 😀 .
So, I’ll go back the following day and do it properly, with camera of course.
Anyone else been? if so what else is worth seeing, can you get into Boeing at all?

Phil

I was there in October 2004. The lightning is very good in the large main gallery thanks to all glass walls and ceiling but the new Personal Courage Wing which houses the former Champlin Fighter Collection has no windows with black walls & ceiling and aircraft are lit by small accent lights. It reminded me of RAF Museum Hendon, “would someone please turn on some lights in here?” NOT ideal conditions for great photography.

Dennis

June 8, 2005 at 8:43 pm in reply to: Which Aircraft Are Still In Their Original Paint? #1350836

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P-61 Black Widow owned by the National Air & Space Museum has its original paint. It’s stored at Garber. There are others there as well, Japanese, German, and USAAF, that are stored in their original schemes. I believe B-17D “Swoose” is still original as well.

Dennis

May 17, 2005 at 3:34 pm in reply to: Two Bf109 F4s being restored to fly #1392771

D. Bergstrom
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No Mark, the 2 Skurich ones (ex-Doug Arnold) are ‘109Gs. One ended up in the Evergreen Museum and the other one at Dayton, IIRC.

That’s correct. Evergreen has 610937 on display.

Since Darrell has experience restoring 109s, I was wondering by Mark’s question if I had missed some earlier news that these two F models has been moved to Fort Collins with plans for him to eventually restore them before this new deal with Bob Hammer came along.

Dennis

May 17, 2005 at 3:07 pm in reply to: Two Bf109 F4s being restored to fly #1392794

D. Bergstrom
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Sorry, I don’t know where these two have been stored in Colorado.

I do know from Warbirds Worldwide 47 and from FlyPast February 1999 that Gordon Page/Warbird Recovery has had the remains of at least four F models from Russia since the mid-90s.

Dennis

April 11, 2005 at 6:06 pm in reply to: US Trip #1360050

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also Mark Timken’s Fw-190 F-8 being restored at GossHawk in Mesa close to the CAF hangar.
and….
Jay Thinnes’ Flug Werk FW-190 being restored at Chandler.
Les Heikkila’s flying P-51D “Petie 2nd” (ex Doug Arnold) @ Scottsdale
Chris Woods’ flying P-51D “February” at Carefree

Dennis

April 11, 2005 at 5:52 pm in reply to: US Trip #1360161

D. Bergstrom
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On the historic front there is Pima and AMARC in Tucson, about 120 miles to the south.
Otherwise, my local source says theres not much else…

Flood

There’s also Hans Lauridsen’s flying collection at Carefree, Arizona (20 or so miles north of Phoenix) which includes a TBM-3E, B-25J, DC-3C, C-1A, PBY-5a, T-6, T-28, PT-17.

Dennis

April 7, 2005 at 5:54 am in reply to: Your loudest aircraft? #1367184

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The ear piercing dog whistle of the Fouga Magister is horrible and I don’t like being around them at airshows.

The Concorde on takeoff sounded like a rocket launch – very loud and earthshaking yet beautiful. It’s still my daughter’s favorite airplane after she heard it take off several times at Oshkosh.

I have to cover my ears everytime a Harrier is around. Something about it rattles my brain.

Dennis

March 29, 2005 at 12:09 am in reply to: Merlin70 coming to the US #1380199

D. Bergstrom
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And half of the 6 B-25s were gone by mid day Saturday. I’ve been to Oshkosh 17 times and the weekend shows used to be great but the recent trend is that many of the warbirds are gone by mid-day Saturday and on Sunday there are very few left. This year MIGHT be different though since they’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII.

Dennis

March 28, 2005 at 12:16 am in reply to: Classic Fighters Omaka pics #1381369

D. Bergstrom
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Greetings,

Would you like to see more ?

TNZ

Yes!!

Do you have pictures of the other P-40 in the one picture?

Dennis

March 28, 2005 at 12:07 am in reply to: Merlin70 coming to the US #1381416

D. Bergstrom
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The US Air Force Museum in Dayton is a must.

There might not be very many warbirds left at Oshkosh by Saturday and Sunday since many leave Friday or on Saturday morning. If you could go earlier in the week, you’d see quite a few more WWII aircraft.

Here’s the mileage if you’re considering driving any of these legs of your trip:

Oshkosh to Dayton: 478 miles and almost 8 hours of driving (it’s slower driving through the Chicago area with toll booths and heavy traffic)

Dayton to Wings Over Michigan: 196 miles and 3 hours driving

Wings over Michigan to Washington DC: 524 miles and over 8 hours driving time

Dayton to Washington DC: 483 miles and 7 1/2 hours of driving

Dennis

March 4, 2005 at 4:08 pm in reply to: David Tallichet's air force #1421465

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According to “Air Classics” December 1996:
“N3703G suffered extensive damage to its left wing last year when the brakes failed and the aircraft hit a small out-building”

March 4, 2005 at 3:55 pm in reply to: David Tallichet's air force #1421488

D. Bergstrom
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The Tallichet B-17 accident was 3 November 1995.

March 4, 2005 at 1:40 pm in reply to: David Tallichet's air force #1421698

D. Bergstrom
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I agree. I remember that Tallichet’s B-17 hit a small FAA building that was just off a taxiway somewhere here in the states. I’ll keep looking for the article.

Dennis

March 3, 2005 at 9:12 pm in reply to: David Tallichet's air force #1422739

D. Bergstrom
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Yep. David was a B-17 pilot during WWII and is now in his 80s. Many of the aircraft on this list are now with other owners/collectors. Some have recently gone to various air museums and some are still available for purchase. People with foresight like David, Doug Arnold, Ed Maloney etc. have greatly helped to make the warbird movement what it is today.

Dennis

February 9, 2005 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Which Aircraft would you most like to fly in ? #1374603

D. Bergstrom
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P-38 first without a doubt,
followed by P-51, Spitfire, Hellcat, B-17, B-24, Lancaster, Hellcat, Corsair, Tigercat, & Sea Fury. A ride in any of them would be heavenly!

Dennis
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