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RE: Fly the dream: a flight in a WWII B-17! - 4/19/2011 7:05:13 PM   
m10bob


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Status: offline 		Great pics, thank you for sharing.

Used to love "Twelve O'Clock High" on TV with Robert lansing, (not his replacement, and with colorization , maybe one day, oh well..

Ya know you are getting older when you can brag you flew in a Ford Tri Motor for five bucks, and learned to fly in a WW2 vintage Piper J 3....(They offered to sell it to me for one thousand dollars-I was washing dishes at "Hojos" for a buck ten at the time)..

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RE: Fly the dream: a flight in a WWII B-17! - 4/20/2011 1:59:17 AM   
topeverest


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Status: offline 		I am very envious. Congrats on living the dream. I'll have to put the 17 on my to do list!

When I was young and crazy, I did jump out of a perfectly good B-25 (ver C I think) from about 14K when I was a skydiving fool. I remember being far more scared that the old bucket of bolts would upend than the dive to the turf in marginal conditions. I was first at the door to be sure...

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RE: Fly the dream: a flight in a WWII B-17! - 4/20/2011 5:45:20 PM   
VMF 214


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Status: offline 		Here is a link to WWII weekend in Reading Pa. http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html Ride a B-17 Yankee Lady or B-29 Fifi. Awsome time if you can make it

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RE: Fly the dream: a flight in a WWII B-17! - 4/20/2011 11:11:53 PM   
PzB74


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Status: offline 		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

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

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
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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