Contact/About Me

Paul H. Krumrei Sr.
E-Mail: Paul@warbird-central.com

Who Am I?

Ok, now that you visited my site on all the Aircraft stuff, I wanted to let you know who I am and why did I build my website on Warbirds.

My name is Paul H. Krumrei, Sr. I have had a passion for airplanes since I was about 4 years old, when a friend of mine and I decided to walk from the house ( about 2 miles ) and watch the airplanes taking off from the Grand Rapids/Itasca County Airport. Let’s just say that every cop in town was looking for me all day, as my mother lost her mind looking for me. She found me 6 hours later, still at the airport watching them darn planes taking off and landing all day long!

Well, my grandfather, H. Bruce Hoch of Anoka, purchased and restored a BT-13 Vultee in the late 60′s and flew the plane up until his death in 1989.I loved that airplane and flew in it often with him. I still see the aircraft once in awhile at air shows, as it is now owned by a wonder woman, Janet. You can visit her site at www.vulteeexpress.com

The BT-13 has and warbirds have always fascinated me and I always dreamed of owning one myself. (I don’t but still have that dream)

I joined the United States Air Force in 1989, hoping to get into the new technology of aircraft and just be around airplanes for a living. I was stationed in Omaha, Nebraska at Offutt Air Force Base, the middle of Cornhusker country!

I was then deployed to Desert Storm in 1990-1992.

Coming back from the Desert Storm Tour of duty, I was returned to Offutt where I then supported the E-4B National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACP) pronounced (Knee-Cap) or known as NightWatch This was a Boeing 747-200 aircraft with classified communications equipment. We had 4 of them stationed at Offutt. (http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=99) I supported these aircraft along with the 1 ACCS Squadron working along side the Boeing Aerospace Company.

I was then sent in 1993 with the RC-135U “Combat Sent” aircraft 849 to RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom (England). The official comments on this aircraft are that it provides strategic electronic reconnaissance information to the president, secretary of defense, Department of Defense leaders and theater commanders. (http://www2.acc.af.mil/library/factsheets/rc-135u.html)

I could go on and on.

Anyways, to the point, Author William T. Larkins ( Bill ) inspired me to build the website www.BT-13.org

Then came Warbird-Central.com and have been building both for over 14 years now. I now update the website daily and am still a one man show, hoping sometime soon others will be able to help update the site with me.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, as a Disabled Veteran, I am proud to help keep the memory of those Veterans from before my time. Maybe someday someone will do it for aircraft of my generation!

Keep ‘em Flying,

Paul

Callsign “Krum”

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Sending Photos/Photo Credit

All of our photos have been either taken by users like you or have been collected from across the internet.

Each photograph is copyrighted by each respective photographer and we ask that you respect that if you use any of the photo’s obtained from this website.

We hope you enjoy the photos and if you have any of your own, read below to find out how your photo can be added to our growing collection of this wonderful aircraft and those who fly them!

Would you like to see your picture here and help those researchers see what you have?

1. Digital and Scan pictures are accepted via e-mail to paul@warbird-central.com

To send pictures via e-mail please use the following specifications when sending:

a. Pictures must be in .JPG, .GIF, .TIF or .BMP format only. Preferred is .JPG
(The bigger the better)

PLEASE READ!!
Pictures must NOT be zipped or in a .EXE format.
These will be deleted because of viruses (I HAVE HAD 200 of them blocked from my scanner!) ONLY pre-approved .ZIP files will be accepted
(If I know who you are!) Please e-mail me prior to sending zip files!!

2. Mailed Pictures are accepted too. If you need the pictures back please let me know!

“Please contact me via e-mail to get my mailing address”

All mailed pictures will be scanned and mailed back to individuals if requested, otherwise we keep all other pictures for our scrapbook. All mailings will be handled with the utmost care in mailing them back.

We are not responsible for USPS damages.

All Pictures will be added to the Picture of the Week page and then onto our gallery as we receive more pictures. All Pictures are trademarked or registered to the individual owners and by sending us those pictures either via electronic method or mail, you give us permission to add those pictures to our website collection when sending us your photos. If you have an issue with using it, please e-mail me and I will take care of any issues that you may have up to removing the pictures for you. ( We like to have our clients, happy )

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU PROVIDE YOUR NAME AND ANY INFORMATION ON THE AIRCRAFT YOU CAN, SERIAL#, OWNER, HISTORY, ETC. ETC. ( if available )

Thank you very much.

Paul Krumrei Owner,
Warbird-Central.com
BT-13.org

Note – it is NOT our intention to NOT provide the proper credit for pictures.

If you see something on here that is yours, please allow us to display it with your credit.

If you feel you need us to pull a picture, please contact me and e-mail my why we cannot display the photo, and we will properly take care if it.

If you wish to be a contributing photographer, please contact us.

I will credit you with everything you send me! Thank you!

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