Photos of "Glacier Girl" July 23, 2003
These images were taken with a Sony digital camera.
Special thanks to Bab Cardin who took the cockpit photos with my camera.
[click on thumbnail photo to see it larger]
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1. Right tail and rudder. |
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2. Left wing. Note the word "ARMY." |
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3. Left main gear. |
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4. Cockpit. |
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5. Under left inner wing. Note the external stores pylon, used for
fuel tanks or bombs. |
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6. A good view of a turbo-supercharger and waste gate. The plane had
just recently returned from an air show, as evidenced by the soot. |
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7. View from right wing. Note the supercharger cooling intakes on
the right boom. |
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8. Cockpit interior. With the exception of the modern instrument box
on the right (transponder, etc.) all other instrumentation is authentic, WWII-vintage.
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9. Throttle on the left (red knobs), rudder trim wheel in the
center. Note the dive chart. |
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10. Similar to 9, but showing more of the control column. |
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11. Detail of the 3/4 control wheel. The cannon trigger is the right
button , the radio is the center button. |
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12. Straight-on shot of the panel. The gauges are more colorful than
I imagined. |
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13. Throttles, propeller controls, mixture controls and vent controls. |
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14. 4 to 5 o'clock view as seen from the pilot's vantage. |
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15. 9 o'clock view from the pilot's vantage |
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16. 7 to 8 o'clock view |
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17. 10 to 11 o'clock view. That's me down there! |
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18. 10 o'clock view - looking at the mirror (part of the engine cowling
left bare metal and highly polished) the pilot could verify the position of the nose gear,
as demonstrated nicely in this photo. |
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19. Headrest placed behind the seat. (Bob Cardin kindly placed it in
the cockpit so I could see how it looked relative to the seat, canopy, etc.) |
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20. The 'Glacier Girl' lettering is a little different than the Oct 2002
photos. A 3D 'shadow' effect has been added. The yellow and black lettering
below reads: PILOT H. L. SMITH 1ST. LT.
CREW CHIEF SGT. C.T. BALA
U.S. ARMY P-38E
AIR CORPS SER. 41-7630
CREW WEIGHT 200 LBS.
Yes, it says "P-38E" even though it is actually a P-38F-1-LO. I was
told that it was originally ordered as an E but during production it was built as an
F. The restoration crew has faithfully restored every aspect of the plane, even
little quirks such as this. |
