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Re: Travel: Find the LZ130!

Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 10:59
by FlyTexas
simondix wrote:Who is that in the painting carrying the broomstick. I thought the USAAF had better equipment than that?
A broomstick? :lol: It does kinda look like one doesn't it. The guy in the painting is Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The Mitchell Gallery of Flight is named after him. Billy Mitchell has been called the 'Father of the United States Air Force'.

Brian

Re: Travel: Find the LZ130!

Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 11:06
by Garry Russell
Was it him the B-25 was named after??

Re: Travel: Find the LZ130!

Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 11:15
by DaveB
That would be the very same one ;)

ATB

DaveB B)smk