That’s a dirty shame. Those planes are priceless. So glad crew will be ok.
That’s a dirty shame. Those planes are priceless. So glad crew will be ok.
44-28938 Old Glory – privately owned in Latham, New York.[63] Involved in non-fatal crash in Stockton, California on September 19, 2020.[64] [65]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_North_American_B-25_Mitchells#United_States
That isn’t gonna buff-out.
There are around 100 B25s left. About 45 of them in flying condition. Well, maybe 44 now. It’s not as bad as B-17s or most WWII aircraft of which there are very few. B25s kept flying until 1960 in the US and the 1970s in other countries. So there are comparatively more around.
Glad the crew all survived it.
No wonder it crashed. Look at that engine!
30 Seconds Over Stockton just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
The Mitchell, Doolittle’s plane over Tokyo. I usually see about three or four over my House during the annual Chino Planes of Fame Air Show. Damn shame. When I saw the headline I immediately thought Harrison Ford. Praying for the injured.
It’s in Stockton. As in, kalifornia. They’ll be lucky if there’s anything left after it’s been in that filthy ghetto overnight.
My father, a WWII B-24 bomber pilot in the South Pacific, was an instructor pilot on B-25’s at (then) Reese Air Force Base, Lubbock, Texas, in the late 1940’s, after the U.S. Air Force became a separate branch of the U.S. military.
I guess it didn’t occur to the writer to give a little history on the aircraft.
One of the greatest airplanes ever built. It’s up there with the C-130.
Even the Soviets flew them in WWII.
Nearly 10,000 were built.
In October, 1967, I saw a B-17 and TBM Avenger torpedo bombers in action, fighting a brushfire in the Whittier Hills just northeast of Whittier, Calif.