Missouri Newbie

[Harpoon]

Bob,
I am trying to figure out the picture thing, maybe my comp, is as old and slow as I am????

Anyway, "Annie" Is half in Buffalo, Wy, and half in Lone Jack, MO...
Slowly getting her moved to Missouri....Had a wing pulling party last May, and got them trucked home along with the whole empenage, gear doors, cockpit enterior, cowls, eng mounts, flaps, ailerons, etc...

Out of 535 built, Annie was the 200th built, and is 1 of approx 30 left in the world. I feel that my bird may have possibly served in Alaska during WWII and could be a combat vet....time and research will tell...

There are only 2 currently flying in the world...Attu Warrior, in UT., and Hot Stuff in Ind.

[Bob Reed]

Annie is not that one that crashed a while back is she? Is this going to a museum? Or is this a lawn ornament? I would love one of those in my yard! I belong to the 1941 Hag museum here in Upstate New York and we had a PV-2 going to be at our show but I do not see it on the list any more. I will be watching this one with great interest as the museum asked if I could do something with one of there static AC... But it is always a money thing.....

[W9XE/Project777]

Harpoon

Glad to see another flight simmer from Missouri. I am just down the road in Warrensburg. My project is a B777 but not using the real deal

Your post referenced a B-25, my web site has a section about the Fairfax Ghost the B-25 we used to have in KC.

PM me with your email address if you want to communicate.

[Harpoon]

W9XE,...Sorry, can't figure out how to PM on this site yet....will get the pictures figured out before long as well...My email to anyone interested....onetimehilton@aol.com....
Fairfax Ghost...aka Rough House 69....First time I saw this a/c was Hemet, Ca...prior to Frank Howerton and the mechanic at Downtown airport buying her ...1977 or 78..I broke the escape hatch door on her in the cockpit by accident..honest....Was there when she got her first and only Japanese kill...jumped the chocks and nailed a Toyota, or Nissan, something like that...
No, this aircraft didn't crash...was part of the Hirth Air Tanker fleet...the last active Harpoons in the forestry industry..Business disolved in April of 1997 When John Hirth and his co-pilot crashed tanker #38 during a fire drop in eastern Pa....The PV-2 that was to show at the airshow in NY was Hot Stuff, out of Mt. Comfort, IN...They must not have been able to comp the fuel to the airshow, as what is happening at most of the shows this year...

[Harpoon]

Bob,
at first, I thought you were the same Bob Reed that owns the Harpoon in Mesa , Az. He ran the engines up a month or two ago...hasn't flown it as of yet...That Harpoon is painted up to look like a Hudson with the glass nose...
Camo paint scheme...

I guess you could call Annie a yard ornament....I prefer to call it " putting a horse out to pasture" The guy I beat out of buying her was going to cut her wings off and turn the fuselage into a hotdog stand...

Attached pic is the PV-2 all decked out in wartime configuration at Pima County Air Museum, Tucson, AZ

[jakesmith]

Hi Friends,
Myself Jake Smith From NY.
I'm Newbie Here.
Thanks!

[Bob Reed]

Well hello there. And what part of NY? Are you building or looking to build? Tell us a little more about yourself!

Hi Friends,
Myself Jake Smith From NY.
I'm Newbie Here.
Thanks!