B-25 “OLD GORY” Crash
Sep 20, 2020 01:36:18 #
Sorry to inform everyone that the B-25 “OLD GLORY” has crashed south of Stockton Calif about an hour from my location ...Everyone SURVIVED ...! TThnxGod ...
Mechanical Problems brought her down ....3 were injured .. two of the 3 were taken to an area hospital ..all expected to survive ...
Mechanical Problems brought her down ....3 were injured .. two of the 3 were taken to an area hospital ..all expected to survive ...
Sep 20, 2020 01:49:18 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
I'm glad everyone survived. Even if they can put it back together for display purposes in a museum, it looks like its flying days are over.
Sep 20, 2020 01:51:13 #
I am sorry to hear that. It looked great in the photos. I’m glad to hear the crew survived.
Sep 20, 2020 02:08:11 #
mwsilvers wrote:
I'm glad everyone survived. Even if they can put it back together for display purposes in a museum, it looks like its flying days are over.
I have seen pictures of planes that were worse off that were restored, some even to flying condition.
Sep 20, 2020 02:09:59 #
Dr.Nikon wrote:
Sorry to inform everyone that the B-25 “OLD GLORY” has crashed south of Stockton Calif about an hour from my location ...Everyone SURVIVED ...! TThnxGod ...
Mechanical Problems brought her down ....3 were injured .. two of the 3 were taken to an area hospital ..all expected to survive ...
Mechanical Problems brought her down ....3 were injured .. two of the 3 were taken to an area hospital ..all expected to survive ...
Thank God they survived. And the plane looks salvageable, at least as a static display. And I have seen pictures of ones that appeared in worse condition that flew again.
Sep 20, 2020 06:45:07 #
Sep 20, 2020 06:56:50 #
Very glad all survived, no fatalities. I imagine parts are a little hard to come by but with patients and elbow grease she could fly again one day. She looked good in the photo's.
Sep 20, 2020 08:49:15 #
Sep 20, 2020 08:53:35 #
Sep 20, 2020 12:59:28 #
There are a little over a hundred B-45’s around the globe with most of them being in the US ..., about 45 of them are airworthy ...
Sep 21, 2020 06:47:18 #
Sorry to hear that. These old WWII birds are very scarce and expensive to restore. Glad no fatalities.
Sep 21, 2020 08:57:01 #
Dr.Nikon wrote:
Sorry to inform everyone that the B-25 “OLD GLORY” has crashed south of Stockton Calif about an hour from my location ...Everyone SURVIVED ...! TThnxGod ...
Mechanical Problems brought her down ....3 were injured .. two of the 3 were taken to an area hospital ..all expected to survive ...
Mechanical Problems brought her down ....3 were injured .. two of the 3 were taken to an area hospital ..all expected to survive ...
Yes , I saw this on Face Book yesterday and was glad they survived the crash. The 909 crashed this time last year and we lost several crew & passengers on that one. They were associates of ours and the loss was huge to all of our friends with the Collins Group.
Sep 21, 2020 10:45:04 #
Early 50s, 5th and 6th grades. Father was instructor at Air War College and Command and Staff at Maxwell. All the pilots had to get their hours, so there were lines of B-25s and C-45s (Beech 18) on the base. Early morning each day brought noise from the flight line - the B-25 was a very loud airplane, very distinctive sound. C-45s were quieter, sorta boring by comparison. As a kid in love with aviation I knew each and every prop-driven plane in the AF inventory by sound; no need to look up from my classwork. First time I saw an F-86 I was amazed at how small it was. B-29s modified for Air Rescue were also there, but didn't fly often. Wonderful memories, and all us boys on our bicycles had almost free run of the line, getting to know the mechanics and even the individual planes. Could never be possible today, but that was an entirely different era, now gone with the (modern,dangerous) wind.
Sep 21, 2020 11:19:45 #
Tinker wrote:
Early 50s, 5th and 6th grades. Father was instruc... (show quote)
Oh yeah, the sound of those radial engines is so distinctive, like music to our ears. I learned to fly in them.
Sep 21, 2020 12:01:57 #
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