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     Doubled |
Saw a plane that looked an awful lot like this flying over my house this afternoon. I've never had the chance to hear any old war birds in flight and I must say it was incredible. I would have hated to hear an entire fleet heading my way back in the '30s and '40s.  | ||
| Two_seasons |
We'll be hearing a lot of them soon in Wisconsin for the EAA Fly-In. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
A B-24 flew directly over me a few years ago.........on it's way to Wisconsin. Pilot must have known somebody in town because he was so low,you could see the rivet lines. Heard him coming more than a mile away and thought.......that ain't no Piper cub coming..........DAYAM!! | ||
| Ltbuell |
..love those warbirds....yeah you can def tell when one of those are near ya by the familiar......."SOUND"....either those Pratt/Whitney or Merlins...MUSIC TO MY EARS!!!! | ||
| Two_seasons |
I live right off the west side of the Waukesha County, Crites Field, runway. Every time I hear these great birds overhead, I get goosebumps. Several years ago my Dad and I got to fly in a 1929 Ford Tri-Motor. As we boarded, the lady taking our tickets asked me "window or aisle" and dumb me fell for it. There is only one aisle and one seat to each side of that aisle. The pilot comes in the airplane the same way all the passengers do. And horror of horrors, there is no cockpit door, only a ladder from the passenger floor up into the cockpit. We were flying over Pewaukee Lake and I-94 slower than the traffic. Wonderful flight and a very wonderful memory with my Dad. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
so cool, I still cant believe they got those off the old flat top carrier deck | ||
| Trojan |
so cool, I still cant believe they got those off the old flat top carrier deck Getting off the deck was the easy part. Getting any aircraft back on a moving carrier again is a bit more dificult  | ||
| 5liter |
There is a B-25 in the hangar at the airport down the road from me. It's going to be on display along with a Ford Tri-Motor in a couple of years. They were doing touch and goes with the B-25 this weekend. She came over the house, on approach, all afternoon. Nothing like the sound of big radials at power! | ||
| Cityxslicker |
they never made it back, it was pretty much a one way mission. They werent supposed to come back to the flat top after the raid. Doolittle was one crazy sumnabiatch. That thing off the deck with no catapult. Simply amazing. x 16 | ||
| Dwardo |
I've been around a lot of airplanes of that vintage and as I always say, the B-25 is the loudest sumbitch of all! Damn, they are loud. | ||
| Reindog |
Doolittle flew the lead plane so he had the shortest runway. Wow. My Uncle Ernie was a tailgunner in the B-25 and flew missions over Germany in WWII. (Message edited by reindog on July 19, 2011) | ||
| Ltbuell |
...one of my uncle's was a B-17 CO-flew with the 97th Bomb Group out of Foggia,Italy into Germany(he's still alive and pretty sharp as well)..still admire him for what he and sooooooo many others did.... | ||
| Harleyms |
Wings of Freedom had a B-17G, B-24J and a TP-51C at the Jeff City, MO. airport the last three days. I couldn't afford rides in them at $425 but I took my son and we checked them out while on the ground. Beautiful machines |
