"Jcarr" (jcarr)
07/17/2014 at 14:54 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Jcarr" (jcarr)
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Rescued from use as a target in the Mojave, Doc should be airworthy sometime this fall.
If we're lucky, Doc and Fifi will both be at AirVenture in the next few years. I'd die a happy man if I were able to see these beauties parked wingtip-to-wingtip.
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FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 15:09 |
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Great story, thanks for sharing.
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FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 15:11 |
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B-29 FiFi at Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California, November 2010
Nothing
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 15:16 |
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That's awesome. We saw FiFi last year, and it'll be back this way next month for the Rocky Mountain Air Show. I still wish a B17 would come back.
quarterlifecrisis
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 15:20 |
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Great to hear.
Rock Bottom
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 15:25 |
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YES! SO MUCH YES!
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 15:26 |
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Miss Marilyn Gay, repainted as Sweet Eloise, has been parked at Dobbins since '94 - all the metal's there, so it might be possible to rebuild. It was stored from 60-94 two other places partly disassembled. I don't know if NAS Atlanta has any interest in further restoration, though the previous one (to display condition) was privately funded.
Lemonhead
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 16:29 |
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Got to go on board FIFI several years ago. Really, really cool.
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Jcarr
> Lemonhead
07/17/2014 at 16:35 |
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Awesome! I've seen her up close at AirVenture a few times over the last few years, but never inside.
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Lemonhead
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 17:10 |
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She was making a fuel stop along with a couple of other WWII planes. I have a friend with a plane on the ramp so we got a free tour. The cockpit is so different from other planes with the huge expanse of glass. It feels like you are hanging out in empty sky - even just parked on the ramp.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 19:59 |
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There could have been 3. The feels.
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Jcarr
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
07/17/2014 at 21:10 |
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I know, heartbreaking.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Jcarr
07/17/2014 at 21:17 |
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I just feel so bad for the guys out there that had done all the work, got it taxiing, and then watch it burn to the ground. That is equally as heartbreaking as the plane burning.