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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* |
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Sorry to hear about the damage. All the planes at Spruce Creek came out
fine -- That is good to hear. Kermit Weeks musuem took a little hangar damage, but the airplanes came out ok. Even the Shorts Sunderland came out alright, and it was parked outside. -John *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North American* |
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John, do you have any idea why those a/c weren't flown out before the
storm arrived? vince norris |
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John, do you have any idea why those a/c weren't flown out before the
storm arrived? From what I have been told, the storm was supposed to track up the west coast of FL and not be a problem for the Central FL area. The forcast winds were supposed to peak out around 50-60 kts. The hangar that the airplanes were in was rated for winds up to 130mph. When they saw the storm started to track more eastbound, it was too late to move them so they parked the SNJs and the helos in the hangar. All would have been well..as best they can tell a tornado is what took the hangar out. Similiar hangars housing the Mustangs just 200 yards away were untouched and also another T-6, B-25 and B-17 were on the ramp 200 yards away..NOT tied down and came out without a scratch. Just one of those fate things I guess. Who knew a tornado was going to touch down on the hangar? The hurricane itself wasn't the problem. -John *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North American* |
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Do you know which T-6s/SNJs were "lost"?
The number one airplane and the number four airplane were lost. The last time I saw them both was in December and were both yellow at that time, but I think they may have done some work for the number 1 machine. Not sure tho... -John *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North American* |
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I had the privilege of flying with you in Texan 3 - 453WA, back in
October 2001. Have a 2 x 3 foot poster of us going vertical in my office. Very sad news... Hi bob, The good news is that Texan 3 and Texan 2 (now painted white) survived as they were up in the Chicago area. -John *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North American* |
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The good news is that Texan 3 and Texan 2 (now painted white) survived as they
were up in the Chicago area. I flew 452 WA at Geneseo a couple of years ago. I hope that one survived. First time I had flown an SNJ since 1950. vince norris |
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