 | B-25 Carrier Landings| Aircraft Requests Discuss B-25 Carrier Landings in the Aviation forums; A while back, someone posted a writeup on the B-25 carrier landing tests with pictures. Now I can't ... |
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04-08-2005, 09:57 PM
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A while back, someone posted a writeup on the B-25 carrier landing tests with pictures. Now I can't find it. Can someone help refresh this old geezer's memory?
Many thanks in advance!
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04-09-2005, 02:56 AM
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04-09-2005, 05:32 AM
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04-09-2005, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by R Leonard Quote:
Away, way back on Sat Dec 4, 04 at 10:39 am
the lancaster kicks ass posted:
“the B-25 never landed on the carrier, it only took off from there.........”
| Huh? then what are these guys doing aboard USS Shangri-La on November 15, 1944?
PBJ-1, BuNo 35277 (x USAAF B-25H 43-4700) piloted by Lieut. Comdr. Syd Bottomley traps aboard
in picture 1, taxis out of the arrestor gear in picture 2 and is readied for catapult launch in picture 3.   
Regards,
Rich
7 Feb - replaced original shots with somewhat smaller versions, I didn't realize the first ones would be
so big. This should help the load time . . . oh yeah, much better.
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04-09-2005, 08:11 AM
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Country: | Yup! Thanks! I am prepping my presentation for this month (B-25 and the Doolittle raid) and remembered that we had those pictures somewhere.
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04-18-2005, 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by evangilder Yup! Thanks! I am prepping my presentation for this month (B-25 and the Doolittle raid) and remembered that we had those pictures somewhere. | what are you presenting for? if it's a job it sounds fun
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04-18-2005, 11:37 PM
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Country: | I volunteer at a WWII aviation museum. I am the Aviation History Day coordinator. I usually am also the presenter. Once a month I give a presentation on a particular event and aircraft that were involved. Next month I am presenting on the B-17 in commemoration of VE day. Before you get your knickers in a twist, Lanc, we have about a dozen or so B-17 vets at the museum and it is also a way of honoring them. We have no Lanc vets.
I had the great fortune of honoring Charlie Valentine at my presentation on the weekend. He flew B-25s in WWII, then flew C-46s during Korea and finally C-47s in Vietnam. He also flew B-45s and C-119s during the Cold War. He's a great guy and a real patriot. Although he just likes to think of himself as a regular guy. He wore his old flight cap from WWII when he got up to speak.
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04-19-2005, 12:56 AM
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Country: | cool. definitely sounds like alotta fun. anyone know of any good flight museums in east/central/south texas? I know one just opened up in dallas and im sure there's gotta be one in houston.
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04-19-2005, 06:25 AM
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Country: | Matt, check the following website and scroll down for Texas. This is the organization that I belong to. http://www.commemorativeairforce.com/units.html
I don't know the geography of Texas that well. It's big! But the original CAF started in Midland Texas and the main HQ is there. They have an amazing museum. But I understand Midland is kind of in the middle of Nowhere. My buddy used to say "Go to the middle of nowhere, turn left, and you'll be in Midland"!
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04-19-2005, 01:09 PM
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Country: | Haha, most of Texas is the middle of nowhere, even though we have lots of big cities. Thanks for the link, I can't wait to start feeding the craving. 
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group
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04-19-2005, 01:10 PM
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Country: | If you visit any of those chapters, you can ask the docent if there are other air museums around. Most of them will know if there are others nearby and can direct you to them.
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05-09-2005, 01:02 PM
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Country: | Matt, you can look at the WASP museum that is going up in texas as well. The woman flew every thing that was produce in the States and even on a few trips to Europe, and up to Alaska. They also hae some great sories to tell. We somtimes forget about the WASP program and all they did to get planes from the factory to the shipping points or for that matter training some of the boys. 
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05-09-2005, 03:51 PM
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Country: | Cool- i'll look into it, definitely.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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05-11-2005, 02:27 PM
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05-25-2005, 01:32 AM
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Country:  | I don't think the plane was ever to land on the carriers, just to take off, they had to totally strip all the guns off a plane and replace them with brooms. They were in danger if Japanese fighters got near them as they had no ability to shoot them down. This is Operation Doolittle by the way. Some of the later carriers may have been able to land B-25s. I don't know. | 
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