On our recent journey through Ohio, we visited the WACO Museum in Troy, Ohio, and looked at the history of the WACO aircraft company and the museum’s preserved material from the original plant. We check out some early WACO aircraft, the wildly unsuccessful RPT trainer, and the wartime CG-4 Hadrian glider, including its construction, production, and combat use. We also cover later aircraft such as the Model 4, Model 9, and ATO, along with Harold Johnson’s “Red Baron” and several women pilots associated with WACO.

To find out more about the WACO Education Centre and Air Museum, check out their website: https://www.wacoairmuseum.org/

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Join us as Jason Capra and the Vintage Wing Inc. team show us around 'Beach City Baby', a C-53 Skytrooper with an incredible history that takes in the early days of airlines in the United States, Air Transport Command's efforts in North Africa and her role in the growth of civil aviation in Ohio. She is getting a new set of wings, and you can find out how you can help too!

Check out all the latest Beach City Baby news via their website and socials below:

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Donate and help get those wings on and 'Beach City Baby' back in the air here: https://www.vintagewingsinc.com/donate

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0:00 Meeting Beach City Baby

4:24 Wartime Service

7:36 Inside the Cabin

13:03 Ohio Governor's Aircraft

18:37 Modern Avionics Upgrade

22:58 Finding the Derelict DC-3

25:11 Meet the Wing Crew

27:27 Rewinging the C-53

30:50 Keeping Her Airworthy

36:56 Families Reunited Aloft

42:07 Where to Follow Vintage Wings

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I promise this is the last video on autographs and signatures, but I recently bought a mostly lovely print of Frank Wootton's Typhoon Squadron, which had had all the signatures cut out of it. This led me down a rabbit hole of looking at the commoditisation of these signatures and autographs, where the very rarest are now sliced out and added to both new and old artwork, all in the name of "exclusivity". I mean, we look at a Rommel signature in this one...

Erasing History Part 1: https://pod.fo/e/4276b7

Erasing History Part 2 with Dr Philip W Blood: https://pod.fo/e/55f3cb

The HushKit Typhoon t-shirt is available here: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/This-Machine-Hawker-Typhoon-D-Day-Woody-Gutherie-by-HushKit/159678494/e22z

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0:00 Signatures as Commodities

2:56 Cutting Up Prints For Their Parts

5:19 Autographs on New Editions

8:07 No Historic Value

10:08 History for Sale

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