Bad day: two relics crashed and burned - a B-17 and Bernie Sanders.
Too bad. I always run outside when I hear those vintage engines flying overhead.
Sad. Collings Foundation have been stalwarts of the warbird community for decades.
Hope everyone escaped the plane safely, hope for the best for the plane also.
Praying for those on board.
Three hurt, no deaths reported so far.
Great collection of vintage planes there...definitely worth a visit.
Has the name of the B-17 been reported yet?
I saw a B17G bomber last Saturday in Crossville, TN!
I think it was a different one, but it was magnificent
Our primary airplane is a Piper Cherokee that just turned 50, but it has a little nearly bullet proof Lycoming O-320. If it quits the plane has a 10 to 1 glide ratio and a low stall speed. That old T6 is more likely to have engine failure and it has to land at a much faster speed.
As it turned out, I had a tee time and previous engagement to play golf on the day of the show, so I couldn't skip the golf.
While on the course, we saw three very large planes, low on the horizon, and they were headed our way. They flew in a triangular formation, right over us. The engines emitted a hum like I had never heard before, and it was quite a sight.
A few years ago, I was walking up a side walk getting ready to enter a hospital in Ellsworth, Maine in order to have my home blood pressure machine calibrated by a nurse.
I heard airplane engines overhead and thought, “That sounds like a World War II bomber!”
I looked overhead and sure enough, it was a B-17 Flying Fortress. My uncle flew one in Europe during WW II.
The aircraft was on display all weekend at the Bar Harbor - Trenton Airport here in Maine. For $450.00, the civilian crew would take a number of passengers up into the wild blue yonder. I wish I had been one of them.
Damn.
My son loved crawling through that plane the last time it came here to Montgomery.
Before today there were only nine airworthy B-17’s left in the world, with a further 39 complete airframes on display.
Same thing happened to the Liberty Belle B-17 bomber in 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Mi9WoQD_4
This hits close to home for me as my son volunteered at the Collings Foundation during the Spring.
He got to know a lot of the staff well.
RIP to the victims.