Belgian Wings Website Update: 10 June 2013

Best regards,

Daniel Brackx

Mitchell 44-30925 found a new home.

Monday May 27th, 2013 the B-25 Mitchell 44-30925 moved from Grimbergen to Gembloux (Belgium)

Acquired in 2005 thanks to a fund raising campaign organized by the bamf, the aircraft arrived in Belgium in June 2005. From 2008, the paint was removed on the airframe and anti corrosion processes were applied sparing years of manual operations and permitting a safe storage of the aircraft.

In 2010, an agreement was found with the Recreatief Vliegveld Grimbergen to store the aircraft. Unfortunately for environment reasons, it was impossible to start restoration activities there.

A quest for a suitable location and spare parts then started.

In 2011, one of the volunteers of the original B-25 team acquired a workshop in an industrial building in Gembloux in the heart of one of the most dynamic region of Belgium. An herculean work started to setup the place ready to welcome the Mitchell. A new organization the Belgian Aircraft Preservation association (BAPA) was funded to group the persons taking an active part in the project. The Bamf continued to support the project.

In 2013, a first transport was organized. The main spar and parts of the Mitchell arrived in Gembloux. Due to bad weather and the works still to be done in Gembloux, the final move was postponed to 2013. Incredible progresses were done with storage space being increased and a sand blasting machine being installed. Learning from the past, security, procedures and decent working conditions were in the priorities.

To avoid any administrative problems the ownership of the Mitchell was transferred to BAPA in December 2012. Although no communication was done about the new organization, some new and skilled talented volunteers already joined.

On Sunday May 26^th, 2013 a small team went to Grimbergen to prepare 44-30925 for her next travel.

The ferry was successful and all the parts of the aircraft are now reunited in the new workshop of the BAPA.

The restoration can now start. BAPA is still looking for parts, tools (an air compressor and metalworking tools are on the high priority list), money and motivated volunteers to work on this projects and new ones we have already secured.

You can contribute via the bamf (please mention "Don B-25) from http://www.bamf.be/?Help_us

You can contact the BAPA via yduwelz@gmail.com vincent.jacobs.tipsy@gmail.com or campion@cfigroup.be

BAPA plan an official inauguration on her workshop soon.

Past events of the project http://www.bamfbamrs.be/B25/B25-en.htm

B-25 arrival at Gembloux 2013 05
		Pictures taken by Laurent, Eric, Robert and Gael during the transfert of the B-25 from Grimbergen to Gembloux on May 26 and 26th, 2013. 109 photos,

New book : B-25 Factory time by Wim Nijenhuis

I must confess I buy and read too much books. Some books I have forgotten the next day I have read them and a few ones are on the list of the best books I ever read or ever acquired.

Today Daniel and I we had the privilege to attend the presentation of the last book of Wim Nijeuhuis. Wim already offered us 3 reference books about the B-25 Mitchell. There are already a lot of good books about this great aircraft. This one is really different and unique.

Most of the time, the story of an aircraft is a sum of operations, heroic  actions, list of operators but the peoples who manufactured these aeroplanes are totally forgotten.

One of the important part of what was then known as the arsenal of Liberty was the incredible capability of the Americans and the United States to manufacture machines like the B-25 to equip the air forces of the USA, United Kingdom, Netherland of USSR. Transforming a relatively unknown company as North American Aviation into a so effective organization needed to be narrated.  The role played by the different specialists from the management to the most obscure worker is described. Aspects as the building of the factories are also covered.

During World War 2, pictures was used as well for technical reasons, for boasting the morale on all fronts but also to recruit workers. Wim exploited this treasure at the best. The book is illustrated by numerous pictures many never published before.

North American Aviation and B-25 Mitchell advertising are also included as well the aspect of the technical manuals.

This book is definitively on my short list of my preferred aviation books.

If World War 2 or the warbirds are not your preferred topics, this unique book about all the aspects of the manufacturing of an aircraft with a so rich illustration should anyway be soon in your library.

B-25 Factory time, illustrated history of the North American Aviation plants at Inglewood and Kansas City and the B-25 assembly lines. Wim Nijenhuis. Media Primair Modelbouw BV ISBN 978-90-8616-304-5 45 Euro 190 Pages more than 700 pictures

See http://www.b-25factorytimes.nl/index-us.html

A special thanks for the warm welcome from our Dutch friends and to the fantastic Soesterberg Air Museum.

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SBAP site update on 09-06-2013

Forwarded message From: Serge VAN HEERTUM

Dear aviation enthusiast,

This week on SBAP web site

Events:

Remembering the Mighty Eight

The spring airshow of Duxford underlining the 70 years
of the arrival of the USAF in Europe and at Duxford airfield

presented by Danny Carels

http://www.sbap.be/events/2013/015duxspring2013/015duxspring2013.htm

Coming soon:
Salon de Provence: 60 years Patrouille de France
100 years Dutch Aviation at Volkel
Paris Airshow
and much more...

Thanks for your support, enjoy your flight and always safe landing...

Don't forget to share our links with all your interested friends...

Enjoy your visit

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Jean Salis officier dans l’ordre de la légion d’honneur

Baptiste Salis shared Gilbert Courtois's photo.

Aérodrome de Cerny la Ferté Alais vendredi 7 juin le directeur de la DGAC monsieur Patrick Gandil remet à Jean Salis la médaille d'officier dans l'ordre de la légion d'honneur, après un long discours chaleureux, au téléphone son ami Bernard Chabbert associe l'honneur à l'homme et à son dévouement pour la préservation du patrimoine aéronautique français.
Photo Frédérick Vandentorren

Event Florennes Open deur 2013 07 21

Thx Daniel for sharing

La journée du 21 juillet 2013 se déroulera comme suit :

10h30 : Ouverture des différentes expositions.
11h30 : Départ de la marche gourmande.
15h00 : Arrivée de la marche gourmande et show du pilote de démonstration F-16.
Vers 15h30 : Décollage des avions pour le défilé du 21 juillet.
Vers 16h40 : Retour des avions avec passages en formations.
18h00 : Fin des activités.

L'entrée et le parking sont gratuits.

Et la marche gourmande ?

Accueil des participants entre 11h30 et 13h00 pour un parcours gourmand de 6,5 km.
Adultes : 29 euros - Enfants de moins de 12 ans : 15 euros.
Infos et inscriptions pour au plus tard le 15 juillet au 071-68 22 14.

Les menus gourmands

Adultes (29 €)
Apéritif – Tomate farcie à la chair d'écrevisses – Velouté de volaille et sa garniture – Sorbet poire – Jambonneau grillé à la moutarde à l'ancienne – Fromage – Glace - 6 boissons

Enfants (15 €)
Pêche au thon – Jambonneau grillé à la moutarde à l'ancienne – Glace - 3 boissons

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Thx luc

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Today in Aviation History :: De la Cierva

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Would you mind helping us grow Historic Wings? Please forward this message to a friend today! Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. HISTORIC WINGS De la Cierva Today in Aviation :: June 09, 2013 We need to expand our readership! Please forward this story to a friend today! Juan de la Cierva was the son of a wealthy Spaniard who, by age 17 in 1912, was already designing aircraft in Spain.  He continued on in school and earned a degree in civil engineering, though his first love remained airplanes.  By 1919, he had given up on fixed wing aircraft designs because of their tendency to stall, often with disastrous results.  If the stall problem could be solved, he reasoned, many lives would be saved.  Thus, he began experimenting with a radical concept that involved the principles of autorotation, whereby a spinning rotor would allow the aircraft to descend to the ground without any risk of stalling.  If there was just a way to fly based on autorotation, he reasoned, the problem would be solved. On June 9, 1922 -- today in aviation history -- after four years of experimentation and numerous challenges that he overcame through many crashes and struggles with the problems of stability, control and roll, his first autorotation-based aircraft made its first successful flight.  De la Cierva had invented what he called the "Autogiro", which is more commonly known as the Autogyro in English. Continue Reading =>   Photo of the Day A team of USAF aircrew and pararescuemen with the 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron perform preflight inspections on medical equipment aboard a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter at Camp Bastion in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on May 25, 2013.  The 129th Rescue Wing recorded its 1,000th save May 18, 2013, when members of the unit rescued an Afghan National Police officer who had suffered a gunshot wound in southern Afghanistan. Photo Credit:  Senior Airman Scott Saldukas, USAF Copyright © 2013 Historic Wings Magazine, All rights reserved. You have received this message because you opted in to our newsletter on our website -- historicwings.com. Our mailing address is: Historic Wings Magazine 118 N. Johnson Road Sterling, VA 20164 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2013 Historic Wings & Thomas Van Hare All Rights Reserved

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