Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CAF51 on August 01, 2007, 07:27:43 PM
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So... does anyone keep up with the real life warbirds? Anyways Diamond Lil
http://www.atpm.com/12.05/eea-airventure/images/Diamond%20Lil%20%28B-24%29%20Nose%20Art-420.jpg
is now Ol' 927
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8285343@N07/533213435
personally I think its worse off with the new paint, even though it's historically accurate. So whadya think of it?
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I think it's alot better as that particular bird has alot of unique
history. Sold to the Brits as a B-24A, never made it across the pond.
Damaged in a landing accident, repaired and converted to an LB-30
by Consolidated at company expense.
After the war, was operated by Continental Can at Morristown, NJ
, where it was given a "radar nose". I feel
it's really awesome that they're spending so much effort getting her
back close to original condition.
For the back story, I think it was Warbird's Digest that ran a big
story on her. I think it's kind of cool that a buddy of mine's dad was
a mechanic on it while at Continental Can. In fact, Jim has
some sweet shots of it blown up into posters in his office.