Hi there SmokingFrog:
I am a member of the B29/B24 Squadron, based in Dallas. Our squadron is part of the Commemorative Air Force (the old Confederate Air Force). I am the volunteer coordinator for the squadron. We are always looking for new members and also volunteers. Members can train to fly as crew on our planes and go on tour with the planes. I have spent three weeks on tour so far this year.
FIFI is one of two bombers in the squadron, the other being the B-24 Diamond Lil. FIFI is in Lexington, KY for a few more days for maintenance, then she resumes touring the Eastern and Central US until November 2.
If you are interested, check out our site at: www.cafb29b24.org. And if you are going to be in the DFW area, let me know and I can get you in the hangar with the airplanes.
Had a chance to see her a few years ago on LI- very impressive.
I would do this in a heart beat if I had the time off work. Wish you were in Houston area. I’d clean your toilets just to be able to touch those war birds. There is nothing, nothing on earth better than the sound of radials. I have such an immense respect for what the pilots went through, both bombers and fighters, but the bomber crews had balls of steel. I can’t imagine what it was like to be in those planes with bullets and cannon shells exploding and tearing through the airframe you’re flying in.
I would do this in a heart beat if I had the time off work. Wish you were in Houston area. I’d clean your toilets just to be able to touch those war birds. There is nothing, nothing on earth better than the sound of radials. I have such an immense respect for what the pilots went through, both bombers and fighters, but the bomber crews had balls of steel. I can’t imagine what it was like to be in those planes with bullets and cannon shells exploding and tearing through the airframe you’re flying in.
Spent hundreds of hours working on those ole birds here. Loved them but the CAF can KMA.
Believe I have a pic of FIFI, taken in July, 1982 at Islip MacArthur airport in NY. The B 29 was the first BIG plane, to my eye.
I have flow in Fifi and others, as I live in the home of the CAF. At my father’s funeral a couple of months ago, the Air Force did a fly over, then to everyones surprise, the CAf did a fly over.
Of course, I voter against the renamed the CAF.