Trying to loop any “big bird” is just not a good idea, especially if the airframe is 60 years old and they couldn’t when they were young. A roll is a different matter all together, just make sure you have the altitude. i recall a film clip of a fellow flying a B-52 “aggressively”, 90 degree bank a 100′ altitude…..he touched a wingtip and that was it!

Even my flight sim will yell overspeed and tear my wings off if I fly too aggressively (unless I turn that silly reality thing off! Unlimited ammo and gas!).

There is a nice fideo clip of pilot Bob Hoover doing a loop and a roll in his little twin engine (with the engines cut off) and also pouring a cup of tea while doing a 1G roll. Energy management is what he calls it!

Here is the Tube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZBcapxGHjE

Could always do the hands on for the display and have visitors fill sandbags with a little shovel, or dig slit trenches …..give them that “real” experience. Of course you would have to have some one stand over them and yell at them all the while. Might not be good for repeat business!:D

Googled up reentering space junk for the 29th and came up with this news story. Have not yet found a site with it’s orbid/deorbit profile, but it might be the culprit in high atmosphere, just starting down. Probably NOT from Mars
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Burning Russian space junk whizzes past Auckland-bound plane
By Peter Lewis

New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will investigate how pieces of space junk came close to hitting an Auckland-bound plane over the Pacific Ocean.

The debris from a Russian satellite crashed to earth 12 hours ahead of its scheduled re-entry.

The crew of a Lan Chile Airbus en route between Santiago and Auckland reported the flaming objects hurtling past their aircraft about halfway across the Pacific.

Airways New Zealand’s Ken Mitchell said the objects were so close they could hear the rumbling noise above the sound of their jet engines.

“It’s a real safety concern to us, we have treated the incident very seriously,” he said.

“We have filed a formal incident report and we’ll be lodging that with the CAA in the next couple of days and we’ll be leaving it up to them to follow it up.

“We’re very keen to ensure that we don’t have a repeat episode of something like this in our airspace.”

They particularly want the Russians to explain how they got the timing of the satellite’s re-entry so wrong.

That would be the “Kee Bird” B-29

Lost in the wastes of Greenland 50 years ago, a team set out to recover her. Went there, dug her out, serviced her engines and systems, and attempted to fly her out to fly her out. An APU or or some such thing broke loose on takeoff attempt, cought fire and burned her to the ground.

They did a TV documentary on it some years ago.

Here is one of many links

http://www.rb-29.net/HTML/03RelatedStories/03.03shortstories/03.03.09contss.htm

Currant waste of time….a certain Glad…have quite a ways to go and finding details is tedious. Grainy B&W pics driving me nuts!

puzzling out a few bits though.

1. I believe I need a 3 bladed metal prop on this one, am I right? Just what prop/hub was that?
2. Solid wheel covers or the 5 spoked wheel variety?
3. Saw one illustration showing the underside of the A/C painted black on one side…don’t know if that is applicable or not?!?

Well, found a partial pic of a Jenny wheel, about a quarter of one at least and the 40 spoke count looks on the money. Some of the JN’s I saw had “solid” wheels, don’t know if they were caps or not, but they were inside and out, so I would assume not spoked wheels on some versions. Not much up on Jennys. There is bound to be a Jenny about that someone can take a snapshot of.

Here are the best pics I could find. The one on the right, the blurry one, seems to show a smooth tire per your description.

BIG time FOD!!!

I think the police car came off the worse in this one!