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Torrid Tessie the Terror

Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.

About Me

When I'm not involved on a work project, I spend my spare time as part of the crew of the B-25J "Heavenly Body" , based at Van Nuys courtesy of Mike Pupich. - Thanks Mike.

Just a few pics I snapped at Van Nuys and while with the B-25...
Come on by and see what all the ruckus is about.

A little video I shot of the view from the nose while doing a flyover in the San Fernando Valley/Van Nuys.

Bombardier's position
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"Torrid Tessie The Terror" was a B-25 with the 5th Air Force operating in the Pacific out of New Zealand in WWII. The names on the bombers of WWII are just something else, "The Chatterbox", "Miss B Haven","The Hag of Harderwyk","Better Duck",...

My Interests

WWII communications gear, WWII Warbirds, "B25J Heavenly Body"

I'd like to meet:

Maybe you, or you, or you over there...

Movies:

The Blue Max, Battle for Britain, Catch 22, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Memphis Belle, The Rocketeer, The Dam Busters, Bridges over Toko Ri, The Aviator, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Apollo 13, Tora Tora Tora, The Great Santini, The English Patient, Flying Tigers, Indiana Jones movies, Pancho Barnes, The Right Stuff, 633 Squadron...

Television:

Ba Ba Black Sheep, Tales of the Golden Monkey (remember Cutter's Goose?), Wonder Woman (the OSS & the Invisible Plane, come on!), M*A*S*H

Books:

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, The Grim Reapers...

Heroes:

Jimmy Doolittle & Pappy Gunn, go read their books; Howard Hughes