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Originally Posted by Blue Yonder  Thank you very much to both of you. Consequently, I heard some more information on the only early B-17 that survived the scrapyards after the war, it is called the Swoose and is located in Maryland. Another member actually gave me the link, you can find it under my thread that I started. I really appreciate your help. It's funny you should mention that movie, Njaco, I used to love watching that movie an awful lot. Even though it was more of a propaganda film that showed aircraft in use before they were even produced. I was actually thinking of painting the kit olive drab and finding some way to paint "Mary Ann" on the side fuselage. In fact I just recorded it again, the copy my dad had wore out from over use. |
That particular B-17 was MacArthur's 'official transport B-17D'..
I have seen it at first at Andrews AFB and later Silver Hill and much to my shame put a hole in left horizontal stabilizer in 1958 whatever size shoe a 12-13 year old would have. It was locked up and I wanted to get in through radio hatch. The Enola Gay and an obscure B-46 and P-61 were parked at Andrews awaiting transport to Silver Hill Smithsonian facility. I forgot about fabric covering and too stupid to figure out I shouldn't have tried even with .020 - .030 aluminum skin.
I fessed up to the Curator in 1984 - and it was still there, they had not started working on yet.
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