1:1 model of the B-24J

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:57 pm

The Museum of the Warsaw Rising 1944 (great museum, you have to see it!) prepares the 1:1 model (probably without one wing) of the B-24J with using of really remains of the Polish Liberator shut down Southern Poland that time. I have seen the newest pictures in our TV, but you can see the earlier phase here:
http://roody102.blog.pl/archiwum/index.php?nid=10984531
It will be ready on May 3rd.

I've read, that the really Ju-87 (not replica) also has to be exposed.

Wieslaw

Website · Post by **Teamski** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:53 pm

Amazing, a fiberboard liberator! Now that is a lot of work!! Thanks for the link. Very interesting.

-Ski

vulgarvulture · Post by **vulgarvulture** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:47 am

Interesting, thanks for the link.

Here in the US, there's an all fiberglass 1:1 EB-24M on display at Lackland AFB, TX:

http://www.lackland.af.mil/info/Planes/ ... /home6.jpg

Website · Post by **Teamski** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:03 pm

vulgarvulture wrote:Interesting, thanks for the link.

Here in the US, there's an all fiberglass 1:1 EB-24M on display at Lackland AFB, TX:

http://www.lackland.af.mil/info/Planes/ ... /home6.jpg

That's not fiberglass! That's the B-24M that went to Duxford in a trade:

http://www.bcwarbirds.com/B24dugan/duxf ... page_2.htm

I remember when it arrived in poor condition. I went back years later to see it restored....

http://airpower.callihan.cc/images/ww2a ... -b24-3.jpg

-Ski

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:08 pm

Teamski wrote:
vulgarvulture wrote:Interesting, thanks for the link.

Here in the US, there's an all fiberglass 1:1 EB-24M on display at Lackland AFB, TX:

http://www.lackland.af.mil/info/Planes/ ... /home6.jpg
That's not fiberglass! That's the B-24M that went to Duxford in a trade:

http://www.bcwarbirds.com/B24dugan/duxf ... page_2.htm

I remember when it arrived in poor condition. I went back years later to see it restored....

http://airpower.callihan.cc/images/ww2a ... -b24-3.jpg

-Ski

Beautiful plane...

The B-24 is for Poles very interesting. It was not only in equipment of the Polish 301 Squadron (later: the 1586 special duties flight), but was also the plane in which died (1943, Gibraltar) the Polish prime minister, general Sikorski. I just read the book about this... One of the strangest happenings of the WW2. Doubtless it was not the accidence, but the assasination. It's the only (and unofficial) knowledge. 63 years after we don't know who, why and how did it...

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:20 pm

Interesting pictures. With a little more work, they could even make one flyable! A fiberglass replica may be the way for some wealthy people to go, should they want to produce their own WWII bomber.

vulgarvulture · Post by **vulgarvulture** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:48 pm

That's not fiberglass! That's the B-24M that went to Duxford in a trade:

Correct.

My understanding, though, is that the museum replaced it with a fiberglass replica.