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FREDERICK ARMY AIRFIELD
- HANGAR BAY (1 of 2)
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Gathering
508th vets pose, standing, left to right:
Ed Wheelock, Angel Romero, Bob Chisolm, Bob Speers, Charles Martin,
John Coates, Harry Roll, Dan Furlong, Warren Wilt, Ralph King, Ed
Hamilton, George Shenkle, Brody Hand and Robert MacLeod.
kneeling: Jack Schlegel and Rock Merritt |
ADT Outnumbered 508th
as they happily posed with their guests |
Multiple Generations
Col Ray Steeley (USA, ADT), Ed Wheelock (W-II), Leslie Crocker
(ARCT), CSM Bert Puckett (508/2BCT), Gayle Kronberger (from family
of John Daum, KIA Normandy)
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Simple Silhouette
over a doorway spoke volumes |
"Boogie Baby"
is the primary jump plane |
Elegant Script
adorns the nose of this ship |
 Military
and Civil Registration numbers are on the tail. The
leading "2" indicates the aircraft was manufactured in 1942.
The "C" indicated the call sign. "N7314", in black, is the
civil registration number |
 Three
Props
are spun by each of the two 895-kW Pratt and Whitney
R-1830-S1C3G Twin Wasp radials which are rated at1200 horsepower each.
Click here to see and hear the Boogie Baby fire up her engines
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Close Company
Boogie Baby sits quietly amongst vehicles of the same era |
Hamilton Standard
manufactured the six props on the bird |
 Pitot
Tubes
under the nose capture air flow to measure airspeed and can
double as radio masts |
"Boop B Doop"
is the nose art on the secondary ADT C-47 |
 Nose
Art Close-up
shows what the character Betty Boop might look like from the
rear
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 Boop
B Doop
is a newer aircraft as its tail number shows it was built in
1944 |
No Tow Bar
since the C-47 is a "tail dragger" ,i.e., it doesn't have a nose
wheel, a push bar is attached to the tail wheel |
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These photos are
a mixture of work by Lois Andrews, Art Blanco, Liz Farrell, Lou Gutierrez, Dick O'Donnell and
Rick Trevizo.
Individual credits have not been given.
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