b-17 in town

[zpd307]

eaa's b-17 aluminum overcast is in Rochester for the weekend. took grandpa and the boys to check it out.....

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[Lefty]

Some cool history in some of those old planes

[zpd307]

pretty eery when you put yourselves in their shoes flying over Germany and france.... there are not a lot of room in those things! I have two brothers in town, one was a b-24 pilot, the other a b-24 navigator. one was shot down over in Germany and was liberated from a pow camp towards the end of the war...

[twinkieman]

Cool pics! Aviation has always fascinated me, and the history is incredible.

[sojurner 65]

No B-24 with it? They are both scheduled to fly into nearby Hazelton PA today for a three day visit. You can even pay for a ride in one on the last day. I had two relatives fly in B-24's. One, a co-pilot, was lost when his plane went down in the Pacific in May of 1944, never found. The other was a waist gunner. His plane went down over Europe and he survived the jump and the prison camp. If I get up there, I'll get some pics.

[zpd307]

Michael, no b-24. the only b-24 I have seen in person was when I took pops to the eaa airshow in Oshkosh a couple of years ago.....

[Swede]

I always enjoy seeing these old planes. I try to imagine what it would have been like to fly in one of these planes. I got on board the USS Turner Joy, DD951, a couple weeks ago. I remember when it was tied up along side of our ship back in the mid 1960s. Good memories.

[sojurner 65]

Here's the B-17 they had, along with the 24 and a P-51. Later that day it flew over my house, pretty cool!

[zpd307]

nice! its amazing at how much more quiet the 17 is with its turbo'd engines compared to supercharged engines of the 25 we have at the caf in inver grove heights....