Thanks to Boats and Ron and Dan USS COD can lower and raise our bowplanes! Here is a link to the Picasa webalbum of the images I shot today of the planes coming down and then going back up after the curator got to see some COD fabric that has not been exposed in more than 52 years! Also got to check out some original USN haze gray sub paint from the 1950s. The starboard plane was a trip, being over water and all. We lowered the planes at closing time. The 10 people aboard all waited on the grounds to see the historic lowering... even got two more folks who almost jumped over the barbwire and chainlink fence... seems the guy was a SSBN sub vet who happened to be in town from downstate and discovered COD. He thought he'd have to look through the fence when he saw the planes coming down... He really enjoyed the event.
Wanna see a flipcard video? Click the slide show, move the timer to 1 second and watch the planes drop almost in realtime! Also at the end of the show you'll see the planes rigged for surface. Nice shots of Boats too!
Also, you'll see first hand what Steve and his crew are up against with their metal replacement project. BTW: if you want to do some hands-on metal work, Steve and crew can always use some help!
LINK:
http://picasaweb.google.com/108684722082944983666/CODBowplanes#
