Posted on 05/17/2022 6:20:03 PM PDT by lgjhn23
I was outside the shop changing the deck belt on the lawnmower this morning, and I could hear it coming. It's not unusual to have propeller-driven air traffic here in this rural area, mostly crop dusters though, and few private aircraft. But this was a different sound...more than one or two engines, a loud, deep, steady drone sound....unusual. I stopped what I was doing and stepped out from under the awning, looking up. It was a partly cloudy, but sunny day, and then I saw her. She was up maybe 5000' heading due east. There was no mistaken her for what she was even at 5000'; a B-17 Flying Fortress...beautiful! I immediately thought of the old movie, The Memphis Belle. Then, my thoughts turned to the reality those days, and our boys that flew em. Men that were our father's and grandfather's generation. Young men that unselfishly sacrificed their very lives for the cause of freedom. I, then thought of the vile, godless, communist/socialist regime that now rules over us versus the men of those days. We have let them down.
Well, aren’t you just the turd in the punch bowl?
CC
“A WWII B-17 Flew Over Our Place Today”
Damn, I guess everything else is tied up with Ukraine. Feel bad for Taiwan if China makes a move now.
I was lucky enough to work at our local airport where we have a B-17G in residence as part of the Commemorative Air Force. I got to watch her take off and land many times and it was always a thrill. Occasionally, when I’m outside working in my yard, she’ll fly over or close by and I always make sure I stop, look, and listen until it is out of sight. There is nothing like the sound of those engines!
Sorry but you’ve obviously mistaken this site as Storm Front.
Several years ago I saw the B-29, FiFi. I saw it land and when it was parked, they sold tickets for you to climb up and walk through. That was quite a treat. I have walked through several B-17s over the years but never flew on any.
Nice commie propaganda you’re spewing there yourself.
The fact that we were attacked on 12/07/1941 and that Germany declared war on us a week later aren’t factors?
About 25 years ago, I was walking into the Ernst Hardware store in Moscow, Idaho when my attention was drawn skyward by airplane noise. I stood there in amazement as a B-17 and a B-24 flew overhead. I was later told by an aviation guy that the B-24 was then only one air-worthy at the time, although I believe a couple more have since been restored to a point that they are air-worthy.
I can look out my home office window and watch planes take off and land. Mostly Cessnas but the occasional small jet. They have a P51 that they take around the country for plane rides and when it takes off, it goes. One of the few things I can hear without my hearing aid.
Mine was a tail gunner. Spent some time in a POW camp.
Yes, it was about two weeks ago. A Sunday afternoon, April 24. She was headed south.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Yes, the globaleestas set up the pre-WW2 mess. We see that easily now. But I’m sure it wasn’t so easy for the folks living back then to see. Fortunately the USA beat back the totalitarians of their time.
I got to climb inside Fifi and have a look 30+ years ago at an airshow. The pressurized tunnel that ran the whole length of the plane was tiny. There were definitely no fat guys in those aircrews.
May have been out of Alliance or DFW airport.
There is a B17 that saw some tail end WII service at the Chino CA. planes of fame. I took the self guided Tour about 8 years back.Its nothing like the B-29, much more a flying coffin. On the tour helping raise restoration funds was an old timer whom certainly isn’t with us any longer whom was a Belly Gunner on a B-17. Brings a tear to your eye.
Well, to be fair, the post sounds better in the original German...
Nice to see a WWII craft flying .
Cool. Rural here too and on a flight path. Neat to get unexpected sky entertainment.
Best seen: AF-1 carrying 45 at about 5,000 ft. M-1 carrying 45 same alt (escorted by two Ospreys.)
I was in a store parking lot a few months ago and a B25 flew over. It had a much different sound than the civilian aircraft that often fly over. Two engines and you tell they are high performance.
” led by the vile, godless, communist/socialist president named Franklin D. Roosevelt. They believed all the bullshit and propaganda and willingly marched off to war to protect the interests of the international bankers who ran the US Federal Reserve Bank...”...
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Lot of this is not known by many here anymore.
Some years ago I took my Dad to our local airport for the annual air show.
They were giving rides on a B-24 and charging to walk thru a B-17. I was going to pay for both of us to walk thru the B-17, but right about that time, a storms started out rolling in from the West.
They told everyone “Sorry, but we gotta leave.” We were very disappointed.
Dad was in the Pacific during the War, and probably didn’t see too many B-17s.
When the TV series “12 o’Clock High” debuted back in the ‘60s I fell in love with the B-17. I was totally fascinated by it, it was bristling with .50 cal machine guns and gun turrets with men inside shooting at the bad guy Germans.
I even read Martin Caiden’s book “The B-17: The Flying Fort” and was totally captivated by it. My favorite airplane to this day.
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