Eyecatching idea for Jay

It looks like I didn't get any hits on the Florida bar with the Beech
Musketeer sticking out of it, so I imagine it must not be there
anymore.

I scanned my old pic and put it on my website. I think this would
really stand out on a hotel located next to an airport :-)

http://members.cox.net/jgalban/flbar6.jpg


John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

John Galban wrote:
It looks like I didn't get any hits on the Florida bar with the Beech
Musketeer sticking out of it, so I imagine it must not be there
anymore.

There used to be more things like this around. A few years ago I saw
an upended DC-3 in central Florida - advertising Kermit Weeks'
museum.

There was a B-24 supported by columns hovering over a gas station
somewhere in the Pacific Northwest for many many years. I saw an
article about it finally being removed a couple of years ago.

I also used to see an upended BT-13 on top of a gas atation on the
outskirts of Fresno, CA until a few years ago. Gone too!

David Johnson

wrote in message ups.com...

John Galban wrote:
It looks like I didn't get any hits on the Florida bar with the Beech
Musketeer sticking out of it, so I imagine it must not be there
anymore.

There used to be more things like this around. A few years ago I saw
an upended DC-3 in central Florida - advertising Kermit Weeks'
museum.

There was a B-24 supported by columns hovering over a gas station
somewhere in the Pacific Northwest for many many years. I saw an
article about it finally being removed a couple of years ago.

I also used to see an upended BT-13 on top of a gas atation on the
outskirts of Fresno, CA until a few years ago. Gone too!

David Johnson


Those old airframes are too valuable to be left up on a pole....

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:17:51 GMT, "Blueskies"


Those old airframes are too valuable to be left up on a pole....

No, I think homeland Security believes that they are a threat to
National Security and had them melted down

Scott D

Scott D wrote in message ...
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:17:51 GMT, "Blueskies"


Those old airframes are too valuable to be left up on a pole....

No, I think homeland Security believes that they are a threat to
National Security and had them melted down

Scott D


no doubt...

wrote in message
ups.com...

There used to be more things like this around. A few years ago I saw
an upended DC-3 in central Florida - advertising Kermit Weeks'
museum.

It's still there, right along I-4. And there is a paratrooper dangling from
his lines, which are fouled on the tailwheel.

There was a B-24 supported by columns hovering over a gas station
somewhere in the Pacific Northwest for many many years. I saw an
article about it finally being removed a couple of years ago.

B-17 actually, and not removed at all. In fact, in the process of
being restored a piece at a time. The nose is off right now and out
for restoration. Art Lacey, the owner was offered a million bucks for
it, in it's unrestored state. It is a mile from my house, on
Mcloughlin Avenue in Milwaukie, Oregon.
Justaguy

http://www.thebomber.com/history.asp

http://www.thebomber.com/history.asp

Now THAT is cool.

I wonder if I could get an old, clapped out B-52 to put over the pool?

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay,

In the early '80s the Air Force was unloading B-52s on museums like
crazy. I had some invovlement in getting the one at the museum in
Wichita. You might see if they'd sell, that museum is chronically
short of money. Moving it might be a bit of a challenge, although, as
I recall, the spars were cut to comply with the one of the SALTs as it
was capable of carrying nuclear weapons (which is why they got parked
in museums in the first place). Kind of fun to crawl through the
thing, only place you can stand up is at the ladderway between the
decks up front. Otherwise, it's cramped as all get out, you duck-walk
everywhere.

Warmest regards,
Rick

I think I've related this before, but the evening after I visited the Pima
Air and Space museum in Tucson, a friend asked me if I'd noticed the black
B-52 parked out by the parking lot. I said that I had, and he told me this
story.

It seems that after the first Gulf war, the Airforce was relocating their
B-52's and the Base Commander at Davis-Monthan next door called up the
curator of the museum and asked him if he wanted a B-52. They had one that
had come in from the Gulf that was too tired to warrant saving, and the
Commander thought that perhaps the museum would like it. The museum curator
said thanks, but they already had two, and he didn't really think that they
could use another one. They chatted for a bit more, said goodby, and the
curator went home for the weekend.

Monday morning when he drove into the museum parking lot he was surprised to
find a B-52 parked there. It seems that over the weekend the Air Force had
taken down the fence that separates the museum from the base, pulled the
B-52 into the parking lot, replaced the fence and left the bomber abandoned
like an old pickup truck. The Air Force refused to take it back, so they
pulled it into the corner of the parking lot, extended the fence around it,
and it now welcomes visitors.

Jay, perhaps you should call the Air Force. Your inn is next to an airport.
Perhaps they can take down the fence and park a B-52 over your pool.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
newsFlRd.8656$g44.6862@attbi_s54...
http://www.thebomber.com/history.asp

Now THAT is cool.

I wonder if I could get an old, clapped out B-52 to put over the pool?

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"