Picture courtesy of David George, Chino Hills, California
Testes, Testes, 1..2..3?
The Daily Brief
Military Musings and Thoughts Less Filtered
Picture courtesy of David George, Chino Hills, California
Testes, Testes, 1..2..3?
Don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but if you hit the back button now, the rest of the page disappears and this picture is all that’s left besides the banner and left margin boxes. Have to refresh the page to get all the content.
Woah, that’s weird.
Update: It added style information that screwed up everything else. I removed it by editing the post and it seems okay now.
Yep…fixed it here too.
Can I fly it….please??
Last weekend, Moffett Field, about a half-hour north of here, saw a B-24 and B-17 operating from the field.
It’s not often around here where you step outside your front door and see a four-engine heavy bomber flying low overhead.
Sigh. :}
That’s a coincidence, we had a B-17G, named Fuddy Duddy, here in Eugene, OR today. It was definatly worth a trip out to the airport after work to have a chance to get take a tour onboard her.
The B-17G at Moffett is painted as “Nine 0 Nine” (91BG 8AF) and the B-24J is currently painted as “Witchcraft” (467BG 8AF), both flown by the Collings Foundation. I’ve been through both of them (the B-24 was painted as “All American” at the time).
B-17G “Sentimental Journey” (CAF Arizona Wing) is in Watsonville CA this weekend for the Fly-In. Flights are $400. I wish I had the spare change. I’ve been through it numerous times, but I’ve never flown on a B-17.
When my grandfather was in RAF Coastal Command during WWII he got taken for a joyride in a B-17. Said the crew had managed to get an armchair into the nose compartment, and the bomb-aimer sat there smoking a pipe. Madness.
Way back when, my dad was involved in the manufacturing of the wing sections for the B-17 at Briggs Manufacturing in Detroit Michigan.
My uncle flew on the deadhead from Chino back to Lancaster and got time in the right seat (for a donation towards the gas – seems it burns about 50 gal per hour per engine). Spent most of the time in the bombadier nose cone seat. Also said it was VERY loud inside, and bristling with 50 cal guns. The Fuddy Duddy is the sister plane also run, I think, by the CAF.