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Here's a pic I lost but just found of "Lil Critter"! I Flew it when civilian owned by Philco, now in a British museum fully restored to it's original military dress. Be nice for it to come back to the US someday. PJ

By the way, I have permission from Mr. Fishwick, photographer and copyright owner to use and display this photo. I would love to see it in the real again, being a slight attachment there. :smile:

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Here's what it looked like when we had it and before Hollywood got it and cut a big hole in the side for cameras. :rolleyes2:

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Outside display for airshow.
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Glad to see it restored and displayed!
 
Late to seeing this because no home internet - but that was an hour well spent to watch. I got to take a 30 min. ride in the Liberty Belle in 2008 and there was absolutely nothing that could compare to that. Seeing how proper a job they did on the Memphis makes me happy. I know they can't risk flying it because the loss would be irreplacable - would have loved to see an engine run-up though.
 
Airplane restoration is a completely different ballgame. Where we measure our car projects in terms of man hours by the hundreds, with an aircraft project, it's well into the thousands, and multiply that by double if it is to be an airworthy restoration. The TBM Avenger I had a chance to work on took an estimated 20,000 man hours to restore to airworthy, and the Avenger is a single engine plane. I can't imagine the complexity of restoring a four engined bird.
 
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