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PzB74 -> RE: Fly the dream: a flight in a WWII B-17! (4/20/2011 11:11:53 PM)
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I met a couple of guys that brought their fathers' WWII flight jackets for the B-17 / B-24 flights Wdolson!
Really enjoyed talking to em and hearing some stories [&o]
Well, you'd at least go out with a bang Schanid!...
Read about an Ohka pilot in the book "At war with the wind"; he survived 4 aborted Ohka launches, the 5th they pulled the release handle on him
but the dang thing jammed and they couldn't get it loose. A single Betty bomber returned from that mission, his! ..and that turned out to be the last
Ohka mission of the war. Now that is a lucky sod [:D]
Oh, for a minute I thought it would be Reading England, Reading PA is kina out of range.
That's the hassle, the US is to far away for a boys trip. But the show looks great, and there is indeed a single flying B-29 that offer rides.
Lol, but the B-25 is a sturdy plane - helps to have 4 engines for backup though.
Actually talked to a colleague in the US that said a relative of his, Travis Hoover, was the pilot of the second B-25 to launch for the Doolittle raid.
He passed away in 2004. Quite amazing how much history I managed to track down in that trip.
Also visited the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, they had a large model of the Hornet with the B-25s lined up on deck there.
Collings Foundation actually got a Fokker Triplane flying if you want to get back in time M10bob [8D]
Wish I had pushed harder to become a pilot, no way back no I'm afraid. A private license one day maybe...
A snap from the Betty Janes cockpit!
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