You aircraft guys might be interested in this.
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P-38 found O.T.
Nov 15, 2007
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John: Isn't the P-38 Lightning the plane that supposedly gave Loewy's group the design concept for the 50/51 bullet nose? bob.c
Hopefully it can be salvaged, and not looted. And someone from that era had to remember a fighter plane left on the beach, despite what the article claimed.
Interesting find, but with the salt water, I doubt anything is useable.
The front end is patterned upon the fuselodge and engine nacelles of the P-38. The rear window and roof line of the starlight's, the green house of the B-17 heavy bomber.
Bo
--Full circle: The P-38 was designed by the same guy who did Studebaker's
1932 Indy car, one Clarence Johnson. He had a nickname, just can't think of it...
"Kelly"?
In England, i the 190s, the Sunday Sprt, a weekly newspaper(?), printed a story about a B24 that had been found onthe moon. There were some serious photo cuts still showing.
Along that line,I fonally got aboard the "Spruce Goose" in a museuim in Oregon last week. i had stayed at the Queen Mary in about 1972, but didn't get chance to sit it there.
This was the last of a triple round trip in November.
1) Houston for a wedding that cost, according to one estrimate, $400k +, pretty close to what I made thgroughout my full working life.2) A week in Hawaii that we have wanted for years.
3) The Thanksgiving trip to Oregon.My thought? Back to 727s, and maybe even re-start PSA!
Karl
I went to one of those once... they were divorced within a year.
Lee
You might Google "Sunday Sport" +Moon +B24. (I don't know if there is anything there.)
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