| Re: A piece of history gone. |
Subject: Re: A piece of history gone. by bogus on 2011/6/14 17:51:36 An aside... IIRC, the documentary was talking to the guy in charge of Collins Aviation. This was on cable a few years back. However, the nose cone on their B-17 was cracked. It is this massive one piece clear plexi of some sort. Well, the tag was still on the piece, so they reached out to the mfg from 1944! Shockingly, they were still in business! Even more shockingly, they STILL HAD THE MOLDS! For whatever reason, they felt it was important enough to hold on to the molds. Well, they tried to order a nose cone. The company said, and I paraphrase from memory, "well, they are expensive, if you can get a few friends in, the more we make, the cheaper they get." So Collins gets on the horn and gets his friends to all buy 2. Now they have an order! A few weeks later, they all had brandy-new nose cones! |
