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Offline Ozark

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Glacier Girl flying this weekend at Columbia,MO
« on: May 24, 2003, 01:46:51 PM »
Check out the view from my office window. :)



I'll post more photos when I have time.

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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2003, 02:05:36 PM »
Isn't Glacier Girl the 38 from the Lost Squadron?

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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2003, 02:24:10 PM »
That's the one.

She's winging with an A-10 today. Cool sight!

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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2003, 02:28:10 PM »
Check this story out.  I live in Louisville Kentucky.  I was sitting in CAD class in high school, my Junior year (99-00), and this old man walks in.  He starts snapping a few pictures with the camera around his neck and talks to my teacher.  Then he comes and walks around the different computer stations.  So I start talking to him and it turns out he went to my high school in the 1930s.  Far more interesting, he was a P-38 pilot in North Africa and had ~250 combat hours.  He lived up north somewhere and had driven down to Kentucky when he heard about Glacier Girl (which was restored in central kentucky).  We talked about the planes in Greenland and about the B17s there too, then he left.  I didn't ask him if he had any kills, felt it would have been inappropriate.  Not sure if its the same with air-combat, but some fellas get upset when asked if they have ever killed someone.

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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2003, 07:57:46 PM »
Yesterday (May 23, 2003) the FAA gave Glacier Girl her “Airworthy” certification to fly. Hours later, I witnessed her first airshow arrival and the first cross-country trip in 61 years.

http://www.arff.info/photos/GlacierGirl-2.JPG
http://www.arff.info/photos/GlacierGirl-3.JPG
http://www.arff.info/photos/GlacierGirl-4.JPG
http://www.arff.info/photos/GlacierGirl-5.JPG

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« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2003, 08:30:15 PM »
My wife and I drove up to Middlesboro Kentucky and watched her first flight. It's something I will never forget...  It was WELL worth the 14 hour drive from Florida. Just seeing it fly overhead gave me chills...

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« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2003, 08:33:02 PM »
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Just seeing it fly overhead gave me chills...


I know the feeling!

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« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2003, 08:37:14 PM »
a sad story really, it has been awhile since I read it, but, they just could not stop fighting over the little stuff, so much so that it almost scrapped the whole recovery...


It is wonderfull to see her fly again though!

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« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2003, 10:39:03 PM »
Pretty cool. I always pictured that bird as bare aluminum. I guess in the original pics I saw in N. Geographic the ice had taken off the paint. Or my memory is shot - which isn't out of the question.  l'm waiting to see what else ya got, Oz  :)
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« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2003, 03:25:12 AM »
There's a great documentary on the History Channel that's been running about her lately.

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« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2003, 09:00:05 AM »
This restoration has brought an emotional reaction that I haven't had since I read about this when it happened:

 http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~kkg/bb_aircraft_black6.htm

Glad its getting restored.
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« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2003, 09:47:11 AM »
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There's a great documentary on the History Channel that's been running about her lately.


I saw that...great story.
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« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2003, 11:14:33 AM »
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Pretty cool. I always pictured that bird as bare aluminum. I guess in the original pics I saw in N. Geographic the ice had taken off the paint. Or my memory is shot - which isn't out of the question.  l'm waiting to see what else ya got, Oz  :)


Early war 38's, most especially the F's were painted an over OD and under Gray, exactly as Glacier Girl is painted now.  They got the colors right.
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« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2003, 12:56:50 AM »
Here are two photos of Glacier Girl winging with an A-10.
I’ll have much better (35mm) photos on a web site in a few weeks.
I’ll post the URL in this thread when it’s ready.

http://www.arff.info/photos/p38-a10-21.JPG
http://www.arff.info/photos/p38-a10-22.JPG

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« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2003, 08:39:56 AM »
Thanks Ozark, made my day :)