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Karl on B-17 Cockpit Colors
Modelers are always asking what color was the cockpit in the B-17. This is a look at what Boeing called for and what was actually done.
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Odds & Ends
Attention Desert Rat, your interior doors are ready! In 2022 we were contacted by B-17E Desert Rat Restoration Project, asking about interior doors. We provided a quote based on the materials and labor and, come December, we were able to get started. The setup of her interior doors was very much the same as those […]
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Asheville Metal Finishing
Today I wanted to give a special thanks to our friends at Asheville Metal Finishing, located just a couple miles from our hangar workshop in Asheville, North Carolina. Longtime followers will recognize that one of the accuracy issues that we focus on the most is finish and paint schemes. We do this because we wish […]
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Here are a pair of acquisitions from Melody Strachan, formerly of Susanville, California. Some of you might have seen a listing her sister placed on Facebook Marketplace back in November, selling the camera collection of Melody’s late husband. We reached out to Melody at the time and, since then, kept in contact, working with her […]
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Ball Turret Scan
There is probably no piece on the Boeing B-17 more iconic than the Sperry ball turret. And when it comes to rebuilding the ball turret assembly for Lucky Thirteen, this brings a whole host of problems. To begin, it is worth noting that the number of surviving B-17 turrets today is far smaller than one […]
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Regular followers might recall that I asked for help shipping an item from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho here to the Carolinas back in April. Well, it arrived yesterday. We now have an Auxiliary Power Unit for Lucky Thirteen. As early as 4 am, the first clue that a USAAF heavy bomber strike was about to begin […]
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It is no exaggeration to say that we at Hangar Thirteen have been blessed. I have never been much for emotional platitudes, but I must admit that this donation absolutely floored us. Ray and I received a text message on 14 April from Gar Hendry of Millcreek, Utah. Gar was cleaning out his dad’s basement […]
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Top Turret Housing Scan
Some big news regarding the upper turret for Lucky Thirteen. You may recall that back in April we hired a 3D scanner to scan an original Type A-1 Top Turret tub assembly. The idea was, since it is unlikely that we will ever be able to locate and acquire an original tub, Hangar Thirteen will […]
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We have a lot of big news coming up in the next couple months that I think everyone is going to love. I know many of you are eager to see what kind of top turret components we are getting as a result of the April fundraiser. Fred is gathering up turret components now – […]
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Some of you might recall that we were donated a Type K-17 Strike Camera back in October. SSgt Max Pearsall, stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, contributed several pieces to the project, the camera being the largest. This unexpected piece was such a leap forward that we immediately set up a Camera Equipment section […]
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