Pictures from Bomber Field

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Anybody here ever seen the Bear?

This taken at Bomber Field, Aug 20, 2003.

Flown once that day, however, due to a malfunction, she was landed with the left main less than full down & locked. FORTUNATELY, there was no appreciable damage! On gear retract, the left gear door was not fully open when the gear was retracted causing the gear and door to get hung-up. Thus, the Likes Line gear could not be re-extended....
Pilot Capt. Tom Street safely landed the giant TU in the parallel grass runway.

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This is a picture of the massive B-25 brought to the gathering by the fellows at Robart....

Beautiful!

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Another of the B-25

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NOT to be out-done by the giant BEAR, Tom flew this very nice Super Connie...On take-off, as soon as he rotated, the right outside main wheel departed the aircraft.....

Fortunately the model didn't NEED two wheels on that leg to land... Tom did another magnificent scale landing!

Later, Capt. Tom Street (a full-scale commercial Pilot) was heard to recant stories of doing almost the same thing with Full-Scale Boeing aircraft....... WOW!

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Here's a picure of only a PART of the B-17's assembled on the runway for a noon walk-around.....the back one is not a B-17, but a fine B-29!

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B-36 Peacemaker. Many may have seen pictures in one of the model aircraft magazines of THIS beaut! Check-out those prop shaft extentions made to locate the engines deeper in the wing! Fine craftsmanship here!! Six, count them, SIX gas burners on this giant!
Maybe NEXT YEAR???

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Here's a picture of Jimmy Marshall's Heinkel...
Real nice, and a fine flyer! NOW if Jimmy can get those retracts to be more consistant....
Here again was another plagued with gear-hang-itst. BUT due to Jimmy's finess on the sticks, the short cropped grass runway and possibly the moisture thereon, it was landed on her belly more than once this weekend with absolutey no appreciable damage!

FINE WORK, Jimmy!

He came all the way from the Rio Grande Valley, down Edinburg way....

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Hey, does anybody else have picture they would like to share??

Please post them...

[Mindblade]

Those B-17s are incredible! I would love to be able to build/fly something like that. :eek:

[Kansas Prairie]

Fabulous pictures. Thank you for sharing them with the crowd here.

Some beautiful planes indeed......

[tubig]

is the Heinkel from Jimmy Marshall built from plans or his own design? i would like to build that model.

[Ulf Rieder]

yeah, I am curious too. Oh, and boy did she flew great. So did the ME-110 you see in the background there.

Ulf

[ESB]

what manufacturer for the b-17's? i'm in the process now of building a old royol kit b-17 with 78in. ws, but those in the pic look a little bigger! mine will have retracts,flaps,4 o.s. 25's+ functional waist gunner doors and the top gun turret will be coupled with the rudd servo to turn right and left! post pics of progress later, thanks ,john

[glowpwer flyer]

WHOA those are HUGE plane i bet there hard to fly, and i prolly took long time man