Charlie took an old friend...

Well,
Getting more and more news from Florida.
The company I flew for, Warbird Adventures, lost two of their SNJ-6's during
the storm. They put them inside a new hangar for protection, but the best they
can tell a tornado hit the hangar and it collapsed. If you go the Orlando
Sentinel website and do a little searching around, you can see a photo of the
collapsed Ranger Aviation hangar and just pick out the yellow nose of the
SNJ's. They also lost their Bell 47 helicopters.
Reilly Aviation's hangar took a hard hit. The B-25 "Killer Bee" and the B-17
"Liberty Bell" came out ok. The the flyable Stearman that Bush senior flew in
his Navy days suffered some minor damage, but is expected to be repaired.
Mission Air's DC-3 took a hard hit as well..it was apparently blown into a few
trucks and the wings and tail are bent up.
Stallion 51 and the Mustangs (as well as a P-40, F-86, T-6 Spitfire, and some
others) came out ok.


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*