TWO PLANES, AN ANGRY DOG AND A GREAT RIDE
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- ABOUT THIS B25
(info derived from b-25history.or... )
The B-25J-10-NC SN 43-35972 now flying as "Maid in the Shade" was delivered on June 9, 1944. On June 6, 1944, she was test flown by North American test pilot Eddie Fisher. Total flight time was 150 minutes. She was ferried to Hunter AFB by the 4th Ferry Group on June 24, 1944. She departed from Morrison Field, Florida for her first assignment on July 7, 1944. The B-25 would follow the southern route through Brazil and on to the 3rd Air Facility Depot in Africa. In October of that year she was picked up by the 319th Bomb Group, 437th Squadron at Serraggia Airbase, Corsica. She flew 15 combat missions with tail number 18 over Italy between November 4th and December 31st 1944.
In January of 1960, she was sold to National Metals out of Phoenix, Arizona. The civil registration of N9552Z was reserved. In September of that year, she was sold to Dothan Aviation in Dothan, Alabama. Tank and spray bars were added in December of 1960. She was used as an agricultural insecticide sprayer until sometime in the mid-1960s when she was put into storage. In 1975, she was sold to Cen-Tex Aviation from San Marcos, Texas. She was sold again in August of 1979 to Henry W. Fisher, Donald W. Ericson, and Robert E. Thompson. In October of 1981 the plane was donated to the Commemorative Air Force (known as the Confederate Air Force at the time).
ABOUT THE WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS (WASP)
(info derived from: www.britannica... )
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), U.S. Army Air Forces program that tasked some 1,100 civilian women with noncombat military flight duties during World War II. The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft.
WASP had its origins with a pair of exceptionally skilled and ambitious female flyers. Prior to the U.S. entry into World War II, Nancy Harkness Love, the youngest American woman to have earned her private pilot’s license until that time, had lobbied for the creation of a program that would allow female pilots to ferry warplanes from factories to air bases. At the same time, Jackie Cochran, one of the most-accomplished pilots of her era, demonstrated the feasibility of such an idea by flying a lend-lease bomber to England and organizing a group of female pilots for war transport service as part of the British Air Transport Auxiliary. By 1942, as the war reduced the number of qualified male pilots available for transport duty, American military leaders had become increasingly receptive to Love’s and Cochran’s ideas.
In September 1942 Love organized the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), and more than two dozen of the country’s best female civilian pilots were soon reporting to New Castle Army Air Base in Delaware for transport training. Two months later Cochran persuaded Army Air Forces commander Gen. Henry (“Hap”) Arnold to activate the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD), a similar program based at Howard Hughes Airport in Houston. The two programs operated separately until August 1943, when they were merged as WASP, with Cochran taking the role as director. More than 25,000 women applied to serve in WASP, although fewer than 10 percent of that number were accepted. Candidates had to be between 21 and 35 years old, possess a commercial pilot’s license, and have the physical endurance to complete the military training regimen that was part of the selection process.
The women of WASP logged more than 60 million miles (100 million km) in the air and flew every type of aircraft in the army air forces. In October 1944 Ann Baumgarter, serving with WASP as a test pilot, became the first American woman to fly a jet aircraft when she took to the skies in a YP-59A Airacomet. In addition to ferrying aircraft, WASP towed targets for aerial and ground-to-air gunnery practice, made test and demonstration flights, and served as flight instructors. Unlike the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) or the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), the WASP were considered part of the civil service and were not militarized as an official auxiliary force. Thus, the 38 women who were killed while serving in WASP were not entitled to burial expenses or survivor benefits; the cost of shipping home the bodies of the dead was often borne by fellow WASP. In December 1944, as victory in Europe seemed imminent and more male pilots were becoming available, the WASP program was quietly disbanded.
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That case organization for the cameras is SO satisfying 😎
Right?! It's like I used to charge people for taking pictures! 😅
My kids liked it, so that’s the ultimate compliment! Nice work as usual. 😀
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Longer rides!!
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