Fly In A Wwii Bomber

[Uncle Dudley]

http://www.collingsfoundation.org/cf_fligh...experiences.htm

 

Found this link. Look at the schedule to see if they will be at a show in your area. I don't think they will let you take a TSMG on the flight.

I might have to do this.

 

UD

[bug]

If you can get to see 'em, do it. The sight and sound of these things is moving. Here is their B17. They had it along with the B24 and B25 at Cape May, NJ last summer.

 

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i146/mgbug/IMG_4697.jpg

[The Lone Ranger]

I skipped an opportunity once and of course regret it. Notice the Me-262 project on Collings? http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/cool.gif

 

 

http://yankeeairmuseum.org/aircraft/schedule.shtml

 

http://www.b17.org/

 

http://www.cafb29b24.org/

[richard w.]

They came to our regional airport in Manassas last year. It was awesome to see a B-17 and a B-24 together. They keep these birds flying with money they make from giving rides to the public, and from donations.

 

Unfortunately, they have to list the major donors' names on one side. Spoils a great paint job.

 

http://www.fototime.com/DAD3FAEC59D09D8/orig.jpg

 

 

 

 

[full auto 45]

At the Mt. Comfort air show, in Indianapolis, every year, there is a B-17 that you can "rent" and cruise around in for about 30 minutes. Last year it was $350 or $450 for the time. You can sit up front or hang out in the bomb bay area. Great show and there are oodles of others to check out, including some crazy fly boys they call Blue Angles.

 

Mt. Comfort Air Show

[oda572]

I flew in a a B17G that belongs to the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) back in 1995 out of Lunken Field in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was named "Aluminum Overcast" and was on tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. Cost me $500 but I flew for an hour, had 10 minutes at the controls, got a cool jacket, and a year's membership in the EAA. I would do it again in a minute.

 

You could move about the aircraft so I grabbed an M2AC in the waist with an open window. That was as good as flying the thing. If it had ammo I'd surely have let it rip. There were six of us passengers and we all took turns in every position, waist gunners, radioman, bombardier, engineer, pilot, and aircraft commander. Could not access the tail gunners position in flight and the Sperry ball turret was off limits. I was the only one without a video camera and that was by choice. I just could not waste this experience looking thru a viewfinder. I took some stills and they photgraphed you at the controls. I will always remember that flight.

 

If you ever get the chance you have to do it.

[JimFromFL]

I couldn't read where it stated whether or not you get to work the .50 cal machine guns. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[brian]

QUOTE (bug @ May 28 2007, 09:13 AM)

If you can get to see 'em, do it. The sight and sound of these things is moving.

rodger that.

 

http://www.boomspeed.com/kinky/17.JPG

 

http://www.boomspeed.com/kinky/17b.JPG

 

the mid-atlantic air museum, world war 2 weekend

 

air and ground show

http://www.boomspeed.com/kinky/sdk.JPG

 

i'm totally bummed that i'll miss it this year http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/sad.gif

they even have an area where you can step up and take a few weapons for a spin, blanks of course, but the auto stuff is auto.

[Bill in VA]

Yup. I've seen both the "Aluminum Overcast" and the Collings Foundation's B17, always painted as the "Nine O' Nine", and their B24. But I gotta wonder...how many times are they going to rename that ole B24? The first Time I saw it, it was "Miller Time", then it was "The Dragon and His Tail", and now it's "Witchcraft"???

 

But how about jumping from a WWII airplane, in WWII gear??? That's what I'm saving my pennies for!

http://www.wwiiadt.com/

 

http://www.wwiiadt.com/video/April222007stick1.mpg

 

[Elbow]

I remember a few years ago The Yankee Air Museum held a WW2 war bird gathering. They had everything from the all the heavy bombers to the small fighters including Foreign war birds (German and British). They all where in formation and flying in one big group about 1000 ft up( maybe less). I would say about 30-40 war birds where over my head . My jaw dropped and the roar of those engines was something I can never forget. LOUD, like thunder pounding at you. I remember seeing Fi-Fi the B-29 and the B-24 with it's writing on the side of it, along with a couple of B-17's, P-51's P-40,P-38, Avengers, Spitfires, Me109, T6 trainers, B-25's, and more..... I wish I knew about the fly by because I would have had a camera in hand for this. At the time of the fly by I was standing in my sister in laws wedding at a park and the photographer was taking a lot of pictures of us and I said,out loud, take some pictures of the planes. No one took ANY pictures http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/huh.gif . As happy as I was for my sister in law, I bummed out that no one was taking pictures of the formation and the fact that I would never see anything like that again. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/sad.gif It seemed like the formation took every bit of 3 minutes to fly by. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/woot.gif

[Captainharley]

I can remember as a kid (circa 1963) while in Junior High school. A B-17 and two, I beleive,

twin engine old Boing type military planes. Flying in formation back and forth over the county not more then 6 or 700 hundred feet off the ground. They were dropping fire ant pellets because of the chronic infestation here in florida. I was about 13/14 years old and

"it was awsome!!" Bob http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Once you go full auto... you never go back!"

[full auto 45]

Few years ago, maybe ten, for our veterans day Parade we have the day before the Indy 500 Parade, there was a B-17 with 4 P-51 Mustangs as wingmen that did the fly over. The shop I work at is North of the Parade route, so they buzzed us at about 4-500 feet. So low, I could see the pilots in the Mustang's. Old Chuck Yeager was the pilot of the B-17, or so the paper said.

It felt like an earthquack when they made their run down Meridian street to downtown. We could feel the rumble and hear the thunder for a good 30 seconds before they got there.

It was the best sight to see.

I could only imagine what it was like to see 1000 of them on a run over to Germany in WWII. Breath taking.

[GUNGUY45]

If you're going to be in eastern PA. this weekend, WWII weekend.

 

Pete A.

MAAM

[MightyMouse]

2 years ago I was working as a fuel guy for the Sun'n'Fun Fly in @ Lakeland, FL. There they had a 4 ship heritage flight with a P51 in lead, middle right was an F-100 Super Sabre, middle left was an F-4 Phantom II, and bringing up the rear was an F-16 in slow flight. That was most deffinately my favorite fly-by. It doesn't get any better than that, the P51s amazing look and history, the F-4s EXTREEMLY LOUD engine, and the technology that goes into the F-16 all in one place, absolutely unforgettable.

 

On a side note, other cool planes to see include... the B-1 Lancer, the CV-22 Osprey, and of course the new F-22s http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/smile.gif I cant wait to get a ride in some of these.

[bug]

Pete A. That's the Reading airshow I presume. I'll be there on Fri hangin with 78th Inf Div. Great show, I hope the rain isn't a factor.