T-Shirt with bumpy Hudson Logo...

SamJ

Hudson plant near the end of WWII...:cool:

Unknown

All-Right !!! are they building Hudson jets ??

Browniepetersen

Love everything about that photo. It is great!!! By the way, for the fans of modern air war birds... We (USA) did not have a jet war plane ready for combat in WWII. Our first combat jet fighters saw action in Korea. With that said, we must have someone in our Forum that can identify the plane being built? The Air Force was flying F-86's and F-100's when I joined up.

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Didn't HUDSON do some work on a bomber? Looks like a rear gunner's pod to me. I'm not old enough to remember, since I arrived just as Korean war started. I do like the HUDSON shirt though!
Bob

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Browniepetersen wrote:

Love everything about that photo. It is great!!! By the way, for the fans of modern air war birds... We (USA) did not have a jet war plane ready for combat in WWII. Our first combat jet fighters saw action in Korea. With that said, we must have someone in our Forum that can identify the plane being built? The Air Force was flying F-86's and F-100's when I joined up.

Hudson jets - my attempt at a little humor , Im not that young!!

mars55

Well, there was one Hudson built during World War II. The Lockheed Hudson light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft. It was mainly used by the British. It was used in small numbers by the U.S. Navy as the PBO and by the U.S. Air Force as the A28 and A29.

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I believe its the tail gunner's section for the Mighty B-29 SuperFortress,

My Dad's bomber during the war.

PaceRacer50

SamJ

Hudson built some components of the P-38 Lightning during the War. There is some info about this in the May/June 2007 issue of WTN. However, my understanding is that they only built wing sections. :cool:

SamJ

A lot of Hudson's war production history is still unclear, although Butler covers some of it in his book. For example, the Oerlikon factory was top-secret, with almost no know surviving records. Some light was shed by an employee, story in a recent WTN. I believe this photo is the tail section (gunner's nacelle) for a Martin Maurauder, but I could be wrong...I often am. :cool:

Unknown

Ya, I noticed the t-shirts too. And all them little tits sticking out. Metal must have been rivited? Wonder about them rivits...:pV:p

Geoff

Dare I say it - I'd like to get my hands on one of those shirts!

mars55

SamJ wrote:

A lot of Hudson's war production history is still unclear, although Butler covers some of it in his book. For example, the Oerlikon factory was top-secret, with almost no know surviving records. Some light was shed by an employee, story in a recent WTN. I believe this photo is the tail section (gunner's nacelle) for a Martin Maurauder, but I could be wrong...I often am. :cool:

I believe SamJ is right. Check out this photo of a B-26 Maurauder.

SamJ

There's no doubt that Hudson built more parts for the B-26 Maurader than any other aircraft and I think that photo pretty much settles the origin of the factory photo. Thanks for posting it, Mars55! :cool:

SamJ

This is what my father flew during the war...a Consolidated PBY5 Catalina. He joined the RCAF in 1939 (when Canada went to war), left Canada at the end of January, 1940, and did not set foot in North America again for six years! :cool:

TwinH

Good call SamJ on the B26. A true Hot Rod bomber. I'm reposting this because

after taking all the time to reply,I tried to post and it somehow logs me out

and I lose everything. Very Frustating!:mad:



Anyhow my neighbor has the worlds largest private aircraft collection and

well worth the time to check it out if your ever in central Fl.

www.fantasyofflight.com



B26(Marauder) tail:





the rest:





PBY:





and a link to some more pics I took last month:

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a353/Ramblur/roarNsoar07/?start=0

TwinH

The B26 pics I posted above show an early model B26 with a different tail

gunner configuration. The pic that Mars55 posted is a later model and

sure looks to be the same as the factory photo.

Here is a short history on the B26 from Kermits website.

http://fantasyofflight.com/aircraftpages/b26.htm



BTW,I took my twin-H 49 Commodore to the event in these pics and recieved

2nd place peoples choice with my driver against quite a few trailered

showpieces. Mostly Porsches,Jaguars,and BMW's. Go figure...;)

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Dare I say it - I'd like to get my hands on one of those shirts!

Ya gotta realize. She's somebodies great grandma now if she's alive at all. She's say 25 at the time of the photo...say in 1944....adds up to 'bout 88 years old.

Might not still want to...Lol.

Browniepetersen

Who cares that she might be eighty. She sure does look good in that photo.

This is a good place for me to try to pop in a photo with Sams directions in hand. Old dog, new tricks...

Hudsy Wudsy

I'm sorry, but I must be somewhat naive on this subject. I've always heard that the Lockheed "Hudson Bomber" was named for Hudson Motors wartime effort. Even a fellow that I recently chatted with at the local library (he's a reference librarian there) mentioned the Hudson Bomber after I told him that I had a Hudson. He didn't know much about Hudson cars, but he had a great interest in vintage war planes and said that the plane was named for the car company. You can do a Google search of the Hudson Bomber and come up with quite a bit. I'm afraid that I just don't have the time right now. Here's a link to a video on You Tube about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRWQYuymGZ8

SamJ

James P. wrote:

I'm sorry, but I must be somewhat naive on this subject. I've always heard that the Lockheed "Hudson Bomber" was named for Hudson Motors wartime effort. Even a fellow that I recently chatted with at the local library (he's a reference librarian there) mentioned the Hudson Bomber after I told him that I had a Hudson. He didn't know much about Hudson cars, but he had a great interest in vintage war planes and said that the plane was named for the car company. You can do a Google search of the Hudson Bomber and come up with quite a bit. I'm afraid that I just don't have the time right now. Here's a link to a video on You Tube about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRWQYuymGZ8

Unfortunately for myth and legend, Hudson Motors had nothing to do with the Hudson bomber. It was a Lockheed Super Electra converted to British Military specs and called the B14L. The RAF (Royal Air Force) named it the Hudson bomber. It was used by the RAF and RCAF in Costal Command. My father served in Costal Command flying the PBY 5 Catalina. His sister squadron used some Hudsons for reconnisance.The only Lockheed aircraft for which Hudson Motors built parts (as far as anybody knows) was the P-38 Lightning. :cool:

ESSX28-1

SamJ wrote:

This is what my father flew during the war...a Consolidated PBY5 Catalina. He joined the RCAF in 1939 (when Canada went to war), left Canada at the end of January, 1940, and did not set foot in North America again for six years! :cool:

I went up in one of these (Catalina) earlier this year, reputedly the last one in the world with a passenger licence still flying. Pilot said before coming to NZ it had been flying passengers/tourists up various African river river but after a couple of bullets through the wing the owner gave that plan away & bought it to NZ.

It reminds me of the bumble bee - theoretically unable to fly yet it does, slowly & somewhat majestically. :)

PM me for photos if interested.

SamJ

Sorry to drag out this thread, but this foe toe clearly shows the rear nacelle the Hudson ladies were building. The sharp metal point hasn't been added, and you can see where it would attach in the Hudson Factory photo. :rolleyes:

Hudsy Wudsy

My recollection of the story (and, yes, I admit it may be nothing but story) was that much of the fuslage was built by Hudson and then shipped to Lockheed. But Sam, I know how myths do go on and on so you may well be right. Well, if nothing else, we know that Hudson did build the Hall-Scott Invader engine, don't we?

Unknown

I took some pictures of a Hudson Bomber last summer. Its on display at the air museum in Gander, Newfoundland.