Posted: 12/23/2014 7:00:59 PM EDT
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I have an Uncle that buys and completely rebuild WWII aircraft. Its takes years for several men to do it. This is a Grumman Torpedo Bomber Medium (TBM) he and his team rebuilt. He was a WWII radio operator in one - and wanted to rebuild one and put his original radio in it.  |
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I have an Uncle that buys and completely rebuild WWII aircraft. Its takes years for several men to do it. This is a Grumman Torpedo Bomber Medium (TBM) he and his team rebuilt. He was a WWII radio operator in one - and wanted to rebuild one and put his original radio in it. <a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/user/Eyesofsilver/media/tbm_pr.gif.html" target="_blank">http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/Eyesofsilver/tbm_pr.gif</a> Curious what the price tag is on your average WWII fighter rebuild. |
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I have an Uncle that buys and completely rebuild WWII aircraft. Its takes years for several men to do it. This is a Grumman Torpedo Bomber Medium (TBM) he and his team rebuilt. He was a WWII radio operator in one - and wanted to rebuild one and put his original radio in it. <a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/user/Eyesofsilver/media/tbm_pr.gif.html" target="_blank">http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/Eyesofsilver/tbm_pr.gif</a> Very nice! I loved restoring WW2 planes. |
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Quoted: Curious what the price tag is on your average WWII fighter rebuild. Quoted: Quoted: I have an Uncle that buys and completely rebuild WWII aircraft. Its takes years for several men to do it. This is a Grumman Torpedo Bomber Medium (TBM) he and his team rebuilt. He was a WWII radio operator in one - and wanted to rebuild one and put his original radio in it. <a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/user/Eyesofsilver/media/tbm_pr.gif.html" target="_blank">http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/Eyesofsilver/tbm_pr.gif</a> Curious what the price tag is on your average WWII fighter rebuild. I believe that it is large. The kind of "large" you imagine. He had a hangar built at his country property. It includes a dorm for men that volunteer to work on the plane to stay while they are there (they cycle in and out, as their time allows). They strip the plane bare to its skeleton. Whatever needs to be replaced is replaced with spec material. Engines are pulled and completely disassembled, inspected and rebuilt. If a part needs to be re-made - they have the ability to do that. It rebuilt to Mil spec - since post-war planes usually get modified in some way (this TBM lived various lives - the last with the Canadian Forest Service where it was a firefighting bomber. Of course you need a full machine shop (or one nearby) and all the materials to do such a project, including rebuilding tube-based radios, period avionics and gauges, rubber etc etc etc etc etc. It is tedious enough that it took (IIRC) 4 years to rebuild the Grumman TBM. |
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I believe that it is large. The kind of "large" you imagine. He had a hangar built at his country property. It includes a dorm for men that volunteer to work on the plane to stay while they are there (they cycle in and out, as their time allows). They strip the plane bare to its skeleton. Whatever needs to be replaced is replaced with spec material. Engines are pulled and completely disassembled, inspected and rebuilt. If a part needs to be re-made - they have the ability to do that. It rebuilt to Mil spec - since post-war planes usually get modified in some way (this TBM lived various lives - the last with the Canadian Forest Service where it was a firefighting bomber. Of course you need a full machine shop (or one nearby) and all the materials to do such a project, including rebuilding tube-based radios, period avionics and gauges, rubber etc etc etc etc etc. It is tedious enough that it took (IIRC) 4 years to rebuild the Grumman TBM. Quoted:
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I have an Uncle that buys and completely rebuild WWII aircraft. Its takes years for several men to do it. This is a Grumman Torpedo Bomber Medium (TBM) he and his team rebuilt. He was a WWII radio operator in one - and wanted to rebuild one and put his original radio in it. <a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/user/Eyesofsilver/media/tbm_pr.gif.html" target="_blank">http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/Eyesofsilver/tbm_pr.gif</a> Curious what the price tag is on your average WWII fighter rebuild. I believe that it is large. The kind of "large" you imagine. He had a hangar built at his country property. It includes a dorm for men that volunteer to work on the plane to stay while they are there (they cycle in and out, as their time allows). They strip the plane bare to its skeleton. Whatever needs to be replaced is replaced with spec material. Engines are pulled and completely disassembled, inspected and rebuilt. If a part needs to be re-made - they have the ability to do that. It rebuilt to Mil spec - since post-war planes usually get modified in some way (this TBM lived various lives - the last with the Canadian Forest Service where it was a firefighting bomber. Of course you need a full machine shop (or one nearby) and all the materials to do such a project, including rebuilding tube-based radios, period avionics and gauges, rubber etc etc etc etc etc. It is tedious enough that it took (IIRC) 4 years to rebuild the Grumman TBM. I have zero doubts on work hours needed to complete such a task. I'm just taking notes for my lottery win. 
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I have zero doubts on work hours needed to complete such a task. I'm just taking notes for my lottery win.
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I have an Uncle that buys and completely rebuild WWII aircraft. Its takes years for several men to do it. This is a Grumman Torpedo Bomber Medium (TBM) he and his team rebuilt. He was a WWII radio operator in one - and wanted to rebuild one and put his original radio in it. <a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/user/Eyesofsilver/media/tbm_pr.gif.html" target="_blank">http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/Eyesofsilver/tbm_pr.gif</a> Curious what the price tag is on your average WWII fighter rebuild. I believe that it is large. The kind of "large" you imagine. He had a hangar built at his country property. It includes a dorm for men that volunteer to work on the plane to stay while they are there (they cycle in and out, as their time allows). They strip the plane bare to its skeleton. Whatever needs to be replaced is replaced with spec material. Engines are pulled and completely disassembled, inspected and rebuilt. If a part needs to be re-made - they have the ability to do that. It rebuilt to Mil spec - since post-war planes usually get modified in some way (this TBM lived various lives - the last with the Canadian Forest Service where it was a firefighting bomber. Of course you need a full machine shop (or one nearby) and all the materials to do such a project, including rebuilding tube-based radios, period avionics and gauges, rubber etc etc etc etc etc. It is tedious enough that it took (IIRC) 4 years to rebuild the Grumman TBM. I have zero doubts on work hours needed to complete such a task. I'm just taking notes for my lottery win.
IIRC, Dazzling Donna (Stang). A P-51 required parts from 7 other P-51 aircraft and upwards of 2 1/2 million dollars to restore. In a/c restoration a full on metal fab shop is a must. Brake, press, mill, lathe, tons of jigs and original blue prints. Oh yeah! and truck loads of rivets and a shit load of clecos of various sizes. 
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Great stuff. I saw the entire second video. At the beginning, the video goes over the flight experience, rank and age of some of the pilots. There is a 22 year old major with 170 missions and the squadron leader is a 24 year old Lieutenant Colonel. Wow. That could never happen today. Very courageous young men. |
| Had a cousin that flew P-47N's out of Ie Shima in 1945. 413th FG, 1st FS. I'm trying to get his daughters to dig up the old photos he took while over there because there are not many pictures of his unit's planes. They were only in the war for about three months but they flew the first P-47 napalm raid into Japan. |
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I have access to a warehouse with several hundred of those still sealed in their crates, a special surplus sale price of $100 each for the complete set up. Wire your $100 to me and I'll send you the location so you can go there and pick up your airplane. how about 200 and free shipping? |
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Thank You, capnrob97, I watched the whole 'movie.' The Pilots must have had great faith in the Men who assembled those aircraft! I believe the crew chief's would "check ride" the planes after maintenance so I would imagine since they QA'd plane as it was being assembled, they got to go fly the bird first. |