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B-17 flight (Liberty Belle)

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DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
March 30 2009 23:08 GMT
#1
well, my first blog post here, I thought this would be somewhat interesting to share.

got to fly in a B-17 yesterday for about half an hour, I already love flying and this was a great opportunity and boy am I glad I did it, absolutely thrilling. I'm a history major and love world war II era stuff and flying fortresses have always just had a mythical status about them, I can see why. pretty much locks in my ambition to obtain a pilot's license some day. I highly reccommend that you try this out if they come to your city(they fly around the world doing this). next week they'll be in oakland area(hayward airfield??) and then 3 weeks from now they'll be in sacramento.

took a bunch of pictures and have a video from the ground that my mom took so it isn't very good(typical).

but I'll put a few up right now.

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ilistis
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States828 Posts
March 30 2009 23:12 GMT
#2
Pretty cool. Ah dog fights
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Wohmfg
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom1292 Posts
March 30 2009 23:42 GMT
#3
Awesome man. I'd love to have the chance to do that.

Reminds me of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_666
There's a video about it on youtube somewhere, pretty awesome!
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il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
March 31 2009 00:00 GMT
#4
Nice, you actually flew it?

DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
March 31 2009 00:22 GMT
#5
On March 31 2009 09:00 il0seonpurpose wrote:
Nice, you actually flew it?



Boy would that have been a dream come true, nope I was just a passenger. My seat was up in the cockpit though which was cool. Later we got to move around and the nose has a glass floor with the viewfinder for the bombardier(sadly this picture didn't come out well). Also there was no ceiling in the radio room so when he did a roll you could take pictures almost straight down, I could poke my head out into the air. I love flying more than anything in the world but I'm scared to go on a roller coaster at six flags, the hypocrisies in my personality amaze me.
Im pretty good at whistling with my hands, especially when Im holding a whistle.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24679 Posts
March 31 2009 00:23 GMT
#6
Wow that's awesome. I've been on B17s before, but never in mid-flight. That is expensive though, right?
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d1v
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Sweden868 Posts
March 31 2009 00:28 GMT
#7
Wow, this must have been an awesome experience. I hate to fly in general, but I'd gladly hop ob board of this plane!
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DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
March 31 2009 01:24 GMT
#8
On March 31 2009 09:23 micronesia wrote:
Wow that's awesome. I've been on B17s before, but never in mid-flight. That is expensive though, right?


Yes, $430 per person. Well worth it.
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PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
March 31 2009 02:27 GMT
#9
That's so cool...
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vAltyR
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States581 Posts
March 31 2009 02:29 GMT
#10
Heh. That picture of you and the machine gun reminds me of when I was in Hawaii and we visited the USS Missouri. I have similar pictures of myself and my brother with a .50-cal like that.

Very nice, B-17s are awesome!
내 호버크라프트는 장어로 가득 차 있어요
ZeeTemplar
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States557 Posts
March 31 2009 02:36 GMT
#11
wow dude wow..How I eny view. :D did you get to be in the gun turrets when you were in flight? Maybe squeeze off a view rounds? That would be a dream come true of mine to even just be inside one. Who flew the plane if I might ask? O_o Like you I also love WW2 I own a model of the german mouser(yes it is german and is a rifle. My favorite one ). WW2 guns are so awesome >.<!!! The american BAR( browning automati rifle) makes me stain my paints.

Glad you had fun dude.
Jangbi storms!!!
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24679 Posts
March 31 2009 02:49 GMT
#12
On March 31 2009 11:36 ZeeTemplar wrote:
wow dude wow..How I eny view. :D did you get to be in the gun turrets when you were in flight? Maybe squeeze off a view rounds? That would be a dream come true of mine to even just be inside one. Who flew the plane if I might ask? O_o Like you I also love WW2 I own a model of the german mouser(yes it is german and is a rifle. My favorite one ). WW2 guns are so awesome >.<!!! The american BAR( browning automati rifle) makes me stain my paints.

Glad you had fun dude.

My dad has a k98 mouser and I got to try it out at a range a couple of months ago :3 (along with a few others)
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DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
March 31 2009 03:53 GMT
#13
On March 31 2009 11:36 ZeeTemplar wrote:
wow dude wow..How I eny view. :D did you get to be in the gun turrets when you were in flight? Maybe squeeze off a view rounds? That would be a dream come true of mine to even just be inside one. Who flew the plane if I might ask? O_o Like you I also love WW2 I own a model of the german mouser(yes it is german and is a rifle. My favorite one ). WW2 guns are so awesome >.<!!! The american BAR( browning automati rifle) makes me stain my paints.

Glad you had fun dude.


Couple of pilots that work with the organization each with multiple flying certifications, most of which have flown commercial planes, some flew F-16s, and all of them are fans of old planes and work on them constantly. They just pulled another B-17 out of a lake in Canada(it was frozen when they crashed landed in 1944, the crew came back in the spring and it was gone).
Im pretty good at whistling with my hands, especially when Im holding a whistle.
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