Title: B-24 Liberator Restoration.
desmosedici - October 20, 2008 01:49 AM (GMT)
I asked a friend of mine in Australia to grab some pics for me of this B-24 Liberator undergoing restoration in Victoria. Details can be found at this URL here
More pics to follow once he sorts them out.
More pics to follow once he sorts them out.
Bud Bilko - October 20, 2008 02:37 AM (GMT)
Saw the same at RAF Museum at Hendon two years ago. This bird is BIG!! I got an A4 size panel skin of a B24 that crashed in N9 at the end of WW2.
Uncle Sarge.
Uncle Sarge.
razmanosaurex - October 23, 2008 07:00 AM (GMT)
sarge...did u have any detail, or pic b-24 action in malaya?
Bud Bilko - October 24, 2008 10:38 AM (GMT)
Manrex,
You can check at MHG website aka Malayan Historical Group. Type Google or yahoo. Plenty of details. Plus photos too. Right now, the team just got back from Gua Musang after assisting MAF and British Hicom in the search of a British DC3 wreck that crashed nearly 55 years ago. Prayers to the fallen crews (included our own).
Uncle Sarge
You can check at MHG website aka Malayan Historical Group. Type Google or yahoo. Plenty of details. Plus photos too. Right now, the team just got back from Gua Musang after assisting MAF and British Hicom in the search of a British DC3 wreck that crashed nearly 55 years ago. Prayers to the fallen crews (included our own).
Uncle Sarge
razmanosaurex - October 24, 2008 11:56 AM (GMT)
yeah i read in local news papaer bout that raf plane...nice story.
desmosedici - October 24, 2008 02:27 PM (GMT)
Interesting piece of trivia relayed to me by my friend. He was told by one of the volunteers at the site that the B-24 was originally designed as a seaplane before the design change was made for a medium bomber. If you take a long careful look at the lower fuselage, and the high mounted wings, you can see the original design intention.
razmanosaurex - October 25, 2008 06:22 AM (GMT)
ye la...upper wing position, unlike other bomber like B29 orB17, their wing is in center wing....
moJimbo - October 25, 2008 09:42 AM (GMT)
come to think of it... the lib does look like a slimmed-down version of the Sunderland flying boat :P
razmanosaurex - October 25, 2008 03:43 PM (GMT)
sunderland is british bomber ait....did american copybritish design? tapi boleh jadikan?
moJimbo - October 25, 2008 04:46 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (razmanosaurex @ Oct 25 2008, 11:43 PM) |
| sunderland is british bomber ait....did american copybritish design? tapi boleh jadikan? |
no... i'm sure no one copied the design from the other.... just that the sunderland nose and hull shape looks uncannily similar in profile to a b-24j
here's another link on restored flying b-24 with interior pics.
b-24j 'withccraft'
:)
razmanosaurex - October 26, 2008 03:37 AM (GMT)
that man was lucky bro.....he spend a great moment with one of greatest and legendary bomber in the world...nice info. thanks mojimbo
supaglue - July 22, 2009 04:36 AM (GMT)
there's an online MalayMail article entitled "British-Malaysian joint expedition",
dated Tuesday, July 21st, 2009.
it's about the wreck of a WW2 Liberator which went down weeks after the end of the last war.
www.mmail.com.my/content/8642-numbers-show-it’s-raf-plane
www.mmail.com.my/content/8648-britishmalaysian-joint-expedition
update on dig.
dated Monday, August 10th, 2009
www.mmail.com.my/content/10333-b24-liberator-expedition-evidence-human-remains
dated Tuesday, July 21st, 2009.
it's about the wreck of a WW2 Liberator which went down weeks after the end of the last war.
www.mmail.com.my/content/8642-numbers-show-it’s-raf-plane
www.mmail.com.my/content/8648-britishmalaysian-joint-expedition
update on dig.
dated Monday, August 10th, 2009
www.mmail.com.my/content/10333-b24-liberator-expedition-evidence-human-remains
cengitu - August 17, 2009 04:37 AM (GMT)
yup..just coming out from the wreckage ( jungle )