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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jun 12, 2008
Description:
The hangar is the main maintenance facility for The Fighter Factory. They have a museum a few miles away at another airport (no landing allowed there--arrive by car only). They have two dozen or more airplanes, mostly WW II vintage, including a P-40, a Spitfire, a P-51, a PBY, and many others). http://www.fighterfactory.com/
Date Taken:
Jun 12, 2008
Place Taken:
KSFQ
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
B_25_Cockpit_0007.jpg - Photo HTML
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Category:
23, Max Pix
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Dan Nickens - Jun 13,2008
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It's no glass cockpit, but it isn't vintage 1940's either. Pretty cool that they let you get inside to see, though.
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Don Maxwell - Jun 13,2008
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Cool is right! The guy who invited me in opened the door in the belly and lowered the steps. He made sure I knew to grab the black handrail up above and not the red tube beside it. Then he said, 'I'll leave you on your own now. Just don't start the engines,' and went away. Very cool, indeed!<br /><br />It looked as though they restore the airplanes to comfortable flying status, rather than trying to keep them absolutely authentic. The Mig-3 has an Allison engine, for example, because as the guy working on it in the photos said, 'It would never fly if they had to find an original Russian engine for it.'
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Frank A. Carr - Jun 13,2008
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Maybe not all glass, but what would the B-25 drivers have given for a 430/540 combo!
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