The "Yellow Rose" visits an average of 25 cities and towns across the United States each year as a patriotic and education exhibit dedicated to those who gave their all for world freedom during WWII. The Rose is a flying museum. The Central Texas Wing flies its museum piece to the people, and that's quite a feat considering the airplane's age. If seeing this warbird isn't enough, people can lay their hand on the rivets that keep her together. You can crawl through the Rose, touch it, smell the hydraulic fluid, and get greasy from those big radial engines. Since the two 1,700
horsepower engines burn approximately 150 gallons of fuel per hour, costs run high for the Central Texas Wing.