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On our recent journey through Ohio, we visited the WACO Museum in Troy, Ohio, and looked at the history of the WACO aircraft company and the museum’s preserved material from the original plant. We check out some early WACO aircraft, the wildly unsuccessful RPT trainer, and the wartime CG-4 Hadrian glider, including its construction, production, and combat use. We also cover later aircraft such as the Model 4, Model 9, and ATO, along with Harold Johnson’s “Red Baron” and several women pilots associated with WACO.

To find out more about the WACO Education Centre and Air Museum, check out their website: https://www.wacoairmuseum.org/
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Check out the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/

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Join us as Jason Capra and the Vintage Wing Inc. team show us around 'Beach City Baby', a C-53 Skytrooper with an incredible history that takes in the early days of airlines in the United States, Air Transport Command's efforts in North Africa and her role in the growth of civil aviation in Ohio. She is getting a new set of wings, and you can find out how you can help too!

Check out all the latest Beach City Baby news via their website and socials below:
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Donate and help get those wings on and 'Beach City Baby' back in the air here: https://www.vintagewingsinc.com/donate

Buy your 'Beach City Baby' merch here: https://stores.inksoft.com/VintageWingsInc/shop/products/all?page=1

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Check out the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/

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0:00 Meeting Beach City Baby
4:24 Wartime Service
7:36 Inside the Cabin
13:03 Ohio Governor's Aircraft
18:37 Modern Avionics Upgrade
22:58 Finding the Derelict DC-3
25:11 Meet the Wing Crew
27:27 Rewinging the C-53
30:50 Keeping Her Airworthy
36:56 Families Reunited Aloft
42:07 Where to Follow Vintage Wings
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I promise this is the last video on autographs and signatures, but I recently bought a mostly lovely print of Frank Wootton's Typhoon Squadron, which had had all the signatures cut out of it. This led me down a rabbit hole of looking at the commoditisation of these signatures and autographs, where the very rarest are now sliced out and added to both new and old artwork, all in the name of "exclusivity". I mean, we look at a Rommel signature in this one...

Erasing History Part 1: https://pod.fo/e/4276b7
Erasing History Part 2 with Dr Philip W Blood: https://pod.fo/e/55f3cb

The HushKit Typhoon t-shirt is available here: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/This-Machine-Hawker-Typhoon-D-Day-Woody-Gutherie-by-HushKit/159678494/e22z

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Check out the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/

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0:00 Signatures as Commodities
2:56 Cutting Up Prints For Their Parts
5:19 Autographs on New Editions
8:07 No Historic Value
10:08 History for Sale
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Dr Philip W. Blood, author of 'Birds of Prey', joins us in this follow-up to our recent episode where I erased the noted Luftwaffe ace, Gunther Rall, signature, off of a print by Robert Taylor.

Phil and I delve into the truth about Luftwaffe complicity in the crimes of the Nazis during the Second World War and discuss the uncomfortable relationship with the regard to which those who survived were viewed.

Grab your copy of Phil's Birds of Prey: Hitler’s Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland and War Comes to Aachen: The Nazis, Churchill and the 'Stalingrad of the West' at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of every sale supports the show and independent bookshops.

Birds of Prey
UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9783838215679
US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9783838215679

War Comes to Aachen
UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9781911723691
US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9781911723691

You can listen to both parts of our Birds of Prey discussion with Dr. Philip Blood via the old History Hack podcast here on The Aviation Show website here: https://theaviation.show/hedge-hopping/

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Check out the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/

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0:00 Erasing History Debate
1:49 Collecting Luftwaffe Prints
7:38 Luftwaffe and Nazi Ideology
15:08 Signatures and Historical Value
17:56 Mass Signatures Questioned
27:59 Rudel and War Myths
36:32 Commercial Versus Historic Autographs
38:54 Erasure as History
46:57 Public Memory and Hero Worship
49:17 Anti-Semitism in Luftwaffe Stories
54:35 Final Solution and Aftermath
56:31 Auschwitz Book Preview
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The final Convair B-36J Peacemaker ever built, 52-2827 'City of Fort Worth', has been moved to the @PimaAirSpaceMuseum restorations hangar for some TLC after nearly 20-years in the Arizona sun. Scott Marchand, the Pima Air and Space Museum's CEO, joins us from the cockpit of the B-36 to discuss what is going to happen over the coming months as the B-36 is stripped back to bare metal and then given many new coats of paint.

Check out all the links to the Pima Air and Space Museum below!

Be sure to give Boneyard Safari a follow! Many thanks to Ramon Purcell for allowing use of his aerials and images in this episode.

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Check out the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/

👕Get your aviation on with 909 Apparel today! Check out their website here: https://www.909apparel.com/
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