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40 PBYs on Lake Worth

Description: Aerial photograph of forty airplanes floating on Lake Worth. According to Jeff Rhodes: "On 22 November 1940, Consolidated Aircraft Chief Test Pilot Bill Wheatley contacted newspaper publisher and Fort Worth, Texas, civic booster Amon G. Carter, explaining the company had been ordered to transfer 200 PBY Catalina patrol seaplanes (37 of the aircraft can be seen in this photo) from San Diego, California, to Britain and that the crews were in immediate need of a layover point. In just eight days, … more
Date: November 30, 1940
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Location: 32.812158 -97.451343
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

RB-36 No. 85 fuselage

Description: Photograph of the fuselage of the RB-36 plane No. 85 under construction in the warehouse in November 1949. The bomb bay door is open under the plane.
Date: November 1, 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

B-36 No. 85 fuselage

Description: Photograph of the fuselage of the B-36 plane No. 85 under construction in the warehouse in November 1949. The bomb bay door is open under the plane. It's RB-36D 44-92088. Modified to carry the "Boston camera" and re-designated ERB-36D, it was eventually scrapped at Kelly AFB in 1955.
Date: November 1, 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.774992 -97.449530
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth
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