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Offline Grayeagle

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Re: B-17 Fully Restored After 250,000 man hours and $600,000 - PICS
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2010, 07:24:21 PM »
It always gives me goosebumps when I see/hear a B-17 in the air ..just an amazing aircraft.

Very awesome to know there are still some who take the time/money to keep 'em flying.

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Re: B-17 Fully Restored After 250,000 man hours and $600,000 - PICS
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2010, 03:18:47 PM »
Hopefully she'll make it to Thunder Over Michigan this year. The goal is to get all flying B-17's in the country together at the same time.
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Re: B-17 Fully Restored After 250,000 man hours and $600,000 - PICS
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2010, 04:01:12 PM »
She'll be at the Aeros and Autos show on May 8th I believe. It might be another. The H-Town Camaro Club will have around 8 of their camaros in a pic with the B-17.

My Daughter's Synergy Camaro will be in the show with other H-Town Club cars, and she'll also have her car in pic with jet or copter(she has not decided yet).
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Re: B-17 Fully Restored After 250,000 man hours and $600,000 - PICS
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2010, 08:02:30 PM »
I was driving to work one morning a couple years ago in Roanoke, VA---my office is adjacent to the airport. Heard/FELT a tremENDOUS rumble...looked about, a frikkin B17 was on climbout a few hundred feet above me! (was the 909, I believe) I had seen her in person, parked, before, at Clearwater airport.  NEVER witnessed the tremendous presence such a craft has when airborne...everyone near me just stopped their cars in the middle of the road and gaped :salute
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Re: B-17 Fully Restored After 250,000 man hours and $600,000 - PICS
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2010, 08:31:45 AM »
Quote from: bj229r on April 01, 2010, 08:02:30 PM
I was driving to work one morning a couple years ago in Roanoke, VA---my office is adjacent to the airport. Heard/FELT a tremENDOUS rumble...looked about, a frikkin B17 was on climbout a few hundred feet above me! (was the 909, I believe) I had seen her in person, parked, before, at Clearwater airport.  NEVER witnessed the tremendous presence such a craft has when airborne...everyone near me just stopped their cars in the middle of the road and gaped :salute
Wow that must have sounded and felt amazing. I get to see them flying over the house when Wings Over Houston is going on. They usually are not very high. Get goosebumps every time.
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Re: B-17 Fully Restored After 250,000 man hours and $600,000 - PICS
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2010, 08:42:28 AM »
The only time I ever saw a B17 in flight was when the Liberty Belle showed up at Gowen Field in Boise, ID. Definitely a unique presence when you hear those engines.
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