About Surviving Warbirds

We are B-17 Archaeology and our mission statement is the same. “So Many Missions, So Many Airmen, So Many Stories To Be Told”. Let me explain the whole “Surviving Warbirds” concept. While I was at Palm Springs Air Museum filming the episode of “Surviving B-17’s” my Director who is also a Historian and a Curator with years of experience asked me a simple question. “What are you going to do after you film all the B-17’s”, a total of 50, at the time? I didn’t have an answer and it took me a minute to come up with I could do a revisit if there was a new restoration of paint job, but I would be stuck at 55 total episode.

Jeff looked at me and said you need to start to love other airplanes. Fast forwarding a couple of weeks as we were heading to Tucson, AZ to film at the 390th museum and had access to over 400 aircraft, the documentary series manifested into “Surviving Warbirds” and the ability to tell the stories of every aircraft of every nation from the beginning of flight to the endless future. The same compassion and dedication that made B-17 Archaeology will continue and be apart of every episode and restoration/preservation we do.

Its hard to focus on only B-17’s when we have to wait to lay hands on one, so we are going to continue preserving history and give the love to other aircraft. We are currently finishing editing on the story of the B-29 at the bottom of Lake Mead and a Vietnam combat Veteran B-52D model and the pilot who flew her. Our stories will never end and if we focus on a B-17 every 17th episode we can keep with our roots, we just grew a few new branches.

The goal is the same and the mission statement doesn’t change, just new aircrafts to play with and preserve.

ONE TEAM…ONE FIGHT