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Wow, Rocky! That's big on my list....the B-17. Every year we have a Boeing B-17 (The "909") and a Consolidated B-24 fly into one of my two local airfields (SBP-San Luis Obispo or SMX-Santa Maria). The aircraft are owned and operated by the Collings Foundation out of Massachusetts. I have sworn a ride in each of them to the tune of $400 bucks a pop so that makes your deal pretty darned good! Every time they come through it seems there's something going on with work that prevents me from being able to pony up the dough.
This year they snuck in without my knowledge that they were coming. I missed the article in the paper a few days before and much to my surprise I was made aware of their arrival while out on a job with my crew when both lumbered over the jobsite, side by side, at about 1000' AGL! My God those things give me goose bumps just listening to them! I can't even imagine what it must have been like to see and hear them when the sky was full of them from horizon to horizon back during the war.
I think I'm going to catch the B-24 first though. Last I heard this B-24 is the last operational B-24 IN THE WORLD!! There having a hell of a time procuring parts for it so I'm guessing it won't be too long before it's just not economically feasible to keep her in the air.
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