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Volunteer Dave Weatherman points to the part of a B-17 World War II-era bomber he is helping build from salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The project started in 2005 and is still years away from completion. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Volunteer Shonil Datta compares several fabricated parts with to an original salvaged part, foreground, for a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Volunteers are fabricating any parts of the plane that can't be found from other salvaged planes. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Project manager Randy Kemp leaves through a binder containing blueprints for a small wing part for a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built with salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Thousands of old original blueprints are being used in the project detailing every part of the plane. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Dave Shiffer displays a throttle quadrant that will be placed in the B-17 World War II-era bomber being built from salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Shiffer, whose ride aboard a touring B-17 with his father and brother in 2005 eventually led to the B-17 project and the subsequent founding of the nonprofit museum. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Volunteers Dick Bidlack, left, a 79-year-old Vietnam War fighter pilot, and Steve Taylor work on a horizontal stabilizer for the tail of a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built from salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Volunteers Dave Weatherman, left, and Mike Pfarr work on an engine housing for a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built from salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Project manager Randy Kemp works on a panel for an engine housing for a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built with salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Kemp, a 56-year-old aircraft engineer, oversees about 10 volunteers and is the only paid employee for the project. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Shonil Datta, left, and Rob Culbertson work inside the cockpit of a B-17 World War II-era bomber that is being built at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Any parts that can't be found from several salvaged planes are being fabricated by volunteers. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Volunteers Shonil Datta, right, and Rob Culbertson work on a gun turret of a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built from salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The project started in 2005 and is still years away from completion. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Volunteers Garry Arel, left, and Lee Terflinger work on the left aileron for a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built from salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The project started in 2005 and is still years away from completion. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Volunteer Ron Culbertson works inside the tail section of a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built from salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The project started in 2005 and is still years away from completion. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Frank Drain, left, talks with Dave Shiffer about the nose art Drain painted on a B-17 World War II-era bomber being built from salvaged and fabricated parts at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The plane is nicknamed "Champaign Lady" after the county in which the nonprofit museum is located. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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A priest hears a woman's confession at an improvised church in Kiev's Independence Square, Saturday, March 1, 2014. The pro-Russian prime minister of Ukraine's restive Crimea is claiming control of all military forces, police and other security services in the region. In a statement reported by local and Russian news agencies on Saturday, Sergei Aksenov declares that the armed forces, the police, the national security service and border guards will answer only to his orders. He says that any commanders who don't agree should leave their posts. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)