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Thunderbird Club

#132,081
Chucky Stiletti said:
Nice! B-17G....where?
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Here we are.

History of the LSFM B-17
The museum’s B-17G was built by Lockheed/Vega in Burbank, California, on 8 May 1945 – the day the war in Europe ended – and did not see combat. After declared surplus by the Army, it was purchased by the Institut Geographique National (The National Geographic Institute of France) in 1947 and flown for twenty-two years as a high-altitude topographer in Europe, South America, and Africa. After its acquisition by the Lone Star Flight Museum in June 1987, the B-17 began a four and a half year in-house restoration at Houston's Hobby Airport. It carries the markings of Thunderbird, a B-17 that flew 112 missions over Europe. The original Thunderbird, based at Molesworth, England, was attached to the 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force. The LSFM B-17 was awarded top honors at the Experimental Aviation Association Airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1992 and 1993. This aircraft has appeared in numerous documentaries and in the 1995 HBO feature film Tuskegee Airmen starring Laurence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Flight experiences are available aboard the B-17. See this website for more information or contact the LSFM to arrange your flight.
 
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TBird1958 said:
Here we are.

History of the LSFM B-17
The museum’s B-17G was built by Lockheed/Vega in Burbank, California, on 8 May 1945 – the day the war in Europe ended – and did not see combat. After declared surplus by the Army, it was purchased by the Institut Geographique National (The National Geographic Institute of France) in 1947 and flown for twenty-two years as a high-altitude topographer in Europe, South America, and Africa. After its acquisition by the Lone Star Flight Museum in June 1987, the B-17 began a four and a half year in-house restoration at Houston's Hobby Airport. It carries the markings of Thunderbird, a B-17 that flew 112 missions over Europe. The original Thunderbird, based at Molesworth, England, was attached to the 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force. The LSFM B-17 was awarded top honors at the Experimental Aviation Association Airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1992 and 1993. This aircraft has appeared in numerous documentaries and in the 1995 HBO feature film Tuskegee Airmen starring Laurence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Flight experiences are available aboard the B-17. See this website for more information or contact the LSFM to arrange your flight.
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I feel honored....Thank you your Highness!!
 
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My VP pickups are positioned 10 15/16” and 14 3/4” from the center of the 12th fret to the centreline of the pickups.

It would be interesting to know if that matches the 60’s Reverse and Non-reverse Tbirds.


And do the single PU Tbirds have their pickup in the same neck position?

A quick check of my (guitarfetish body) JB shaped object shows the neck PU in the same spot. I can’t measure the bridge PU because of the ashtray.

Now I want to go measure my other basses, but that will have to be another day.
 
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Time to get into some trouble.

THUNDERBIRD, PRECISION.

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Glenn Johnson said:
Ha. At the moment I'm using a stinkin' pick for Wichita Lineman - you know, to get that Carol Kaye tone. . .
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My band TSC's is learning WL right now - it is one of my all-time favorite songs. I'm covering the baritone part including the intro-lead. (our guitarist takes the second half of it) We're playing it in C for our singer Kirstin. Here's the version we are playing with a different outro than the radio released version - and yes - of course I play it with a pick & palm-muting.

 
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JJR58 said:
Halloween is here.

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Reminds me of one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. The actor who played Mr Haney on Green Acres was the protagonist as a similar sort of back-woods character with a nagging wife. He somehow acquired a big glass jar filled with liquid and what looked like hair and proceeded to become 'famous' for it, people traveling from all around to look at it - all seeing/imagining different things. (he charged a fee to see it also - very circus freak-show like) His nagging wife couldn't stand him getting attention and had her boyfriend steal the jar, resulting in instantly deflating his status. He became irate with her - and in the last scene he has a new jar with liquid and hair... hey - it's nearly Halloween ... THUNDERBIRD!!!
 
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JIO said:
Reminds me of one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. The actor who played Mr Haney on Green Acres was the protagonist as a similar sort of back-woods character with a nagging wife. He somehow acquired a big glass jar filled with liquid and what looked like hair and proceeded to become 'famous' for it, people traveling from all around to look at it - all seeing/imagining different things. (he charged a fee to see it also - very circus freak-show like) His nagging wife couldn't stand him getting attention and had her boyfriend steal the jar, resulting in instantly deflating his status. He became irate with her - and in the last scene he has a new jar with liquid and hair... hey - it's nearly Halloween ... THUNDERBIRD!!!
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Whoa! Yup, you get it.
 
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