[alfa6]

Greetings all and one tien for the Friday Night Flyby. Tonight we have the Consolidated B-24 Liberator for your viewing pleasure. As your humble poster did last week this wqill be a two part post. Original color pics from WW-II tonight with some restored B-24 color pics for the Saturday Sortie. On with the pics.

Judging from the large US flags painted on this early B-24 I am guessing that this pic was taken before 1942.

A formation of B-24s at a training unit.

A trio of Mighty Eigth Airforce B-24s over England I believe.

Another formation of Liberators.

A US Navy PB4Y on patrol.

A good example of good ol American ingenuity. The crew of this B-24 used thier parachutes as drag chutes when they discovered that the brakes were out on thier B-24.

Tomorrow night more Libs. Y'all have a great night.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[HiJinx]

Quick story...co-worker friend of mine worked on a Navy PB4Y here at Ft. Huachuca's Libby Army Airfield in the early 50's, then again on the same plane in its role as a US Forest Service slurry bomber nearly 40 years later.

[ConorMacNessa]

Great pics, alfa! thanks!

[AZamericonnie]

Judging from the large US flags painted on this early B-24 I am guessing that this pic was taken before 1942.

Forgive the question but why is that alfa? Thanks for the Flyby!

[darkwing104]

Thanks for the Fly-by...Cool pics.

[pandemoniumreigns]

Love the Lib's Alpha

This kind we can bear. (;0)

[EGPWS]

Cool pic's alfa6!

I used to work in the huge dual Quonset hangars in St. Paul which were built to house the mighty B-24 to perform modification upgrades to them during the war.

3M occupies those hangars now for their fleet of Gulfstream GV's.

[359Henrie]

Great pics, bless those lunatics

[operation clinton cleanup]

If I remember hearing right, were not more B-24 Liberators manufactured than B-17's?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, alfa, for the Friday Night Flyby. ((HUGS)) Have a good tomorrow.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Beautiful ... thanks!! I've missed the great pictures!