Solid Wood " B-18 BOLO"...
After many years of search for good plans of the B-18 "Bolo" in early 2006 I wrote the National Aviation and Space Museum in Washington D.C....Told the people there what I wanted to do and my long search for plans. After about 3 hours I received and E-mail saying that offhand they could not provide me of any. BUT...that they were going to make a search in some other facilities of the Museum. About 3 weeks later I received an envelope from the Museum...and inside the best Bolo Plans I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just for the asking.....Great people. Later today I am writing those guys another note and hope to send them the model, not for exhibition!!! but for their desk.....quite a bunch of Aviation lovers there!!!!!..........
Well I searched for the right block of wood and cut and sanded the basic shapes..........
For the rest of 2006 until last night I just worked on it......
and now its finished..........................
Why make the Bolo????.........I was very lucky to see one, a long long time ago, taking off so slow I could not beleive it would grab the clouds...it did, very slowly roaring and eventually it dissapeared in a bunch of cumulus nimbus.......I never forgot the sight....and its history is that of a Fine Lady, not pretty, just loyal and honorable...from 1936 to 1940 it was the mainstay in bomber command of the USAAF...many of them were destroyed on December 7.........Just a great old Lady.....