2010 Gulf Coast Show photos

[refit1701]

Our show was Saturday and was good and fun. Could not ask for better weather.

Entire Gallery link:

http://apollosaturn.smugmug.com/Militar ... 9836_frf2D

Not sure who's truck this was but it was nice:


One of our members truck with a nice beauty shot with BB-60. You're thinking "Hood up for show, nice job!" but actually his newly rebuilt engine ate a valve on the trip down and we took him home and left his truck in Mobile.



This truck made the transcontinental trip earlier this year and it wore out the aging engine. Now he's gonna have to snatch it out and figure out what happened. I'm not convinced it is a valve but it does have a miss and a pinging noise.

Another nice truck:

[T. Highway]

Nice pictures, looks like you had great weather.

[MikeOneSix]

Nice pictures thanks for posting. Of interest (to me, anyway) is the P5 (LVTP5) in the backround of the first picture. It appears to have busted a torsion bar as one of it's road wheels is suspended off the ground.
Matt

[refit1701]

If that's what's wrong then you know more than I do! I didn't even notice that.

[cuz]

I have a very special sweet spot for that memorial. If you look at the crew chief's name on that B-52D you'll notice it's me. I put her there in 1984. We resurrected her from the bone yard at Davis-Monthan and flew her to Brookley Field in Feb 84. Demilled here and let her sit there until May 84. Then we towed her to the end of the runway, across the beach and up on a barge and floated her on a 6 hour journey through the Mobile shipping channels to east beach off the bow of the Alabama. Then we towed her to those mount pads. Seeing your rally there sure gets me antsy to head south again!

[rixm37]

Great pictures. Looks like you had a fun time. Beautiful weather also.

Wes I remember reading about that B52 in the paper here in Tucson.

[MikeOneSix]

[quote="refit1701"]If that's what's wrong then you know more than I do! I didn't even notice that.

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Refit1701
I'm not an expert on the P5, I've just seen a lot of tracked AFvVs with broken torsion bars and the raised road wheel is a sign of that So is a vehicle sitting with a lower profile than normal.

[cuz]

Here's a view of the park's aircraft with B-52D 55-071:



Here's the crew chief markings:



Here's a shot of me in 1968 with my first B-52D crew chief job on 56-6590.



I'll have to do a little more hunting for the photos I took in 1984/5 down at Mobile.

[rixm37]

Wes did you take any at DM or in Tucson?

[refit1701]

The park looks way different now than it did when you delivered that B52!!

[cuz]

I haven't been able to locate any for DM.

[cuz]

Here now I have found a few of those 1985 photos.


In this shot the B-52 55-071 is on short final.


In this shot you can see the planking pads we used to support the airplane the short distance from the paved east end of the runway across the grass to the barge.


And here she is about 1100 that day. It took them 6 hours to make the trip from Brookley to Battleship Island.

Here's links to full file size photos.

http://img.mypicgallery.com/airforceyea ... ookley.jpg
http://img.mypicgallery.com/airforceyea ... -barge.jpg
http://img.mypicgallery.com/airforceyea ... -final.jpg

[m-37Bruce]

Looks like a great show/time was had by all! One of these days my 37 will start doing some cruising....