Sentimental Journey

[RichardDarkwood]

Sentimental journey was at our local airport for the third time. Took my son and grandson out there. One hell of a time. Spent over $200 while i was there. Hundo on merch and $50 in each donation bomb.

After talking with one of the volunteers (the Co-Pilot) of the B-17 he let me climb into the pilots seat. I am so F**king pumped now after that. What an experience. They are offering rides this weekend.

Big shout out to the Commemorative Air Force for keeping these big planes up n running.

Next week they will be in Cincinatti at an air show.

[CptTrips]

You lucky dawg.

Not many more people are gong to get that opportunity eventually.

[AKIron]

Awesome. This one was on static display at Grissom AFB when I was there in early 80's. I climbed up in it and crawled around inside. Was pretty trashed back then.

https://www.aerovintage.com/2023/08/23/b-17g-44-83690-at-museum-of-aviation-georgia/

[LNG15]

Sentimental journey was at our local airport for the third time. Took my son and grandson out there. One hell of a time. Spent over $200 while i was there. Hundo on merch and $50 in each donation bomb.

After talking with one of the volunteers (the Co-Pilot) of the B-17 he let me climb into the pilots seat. I am so F**king pumped now after that. What an experience. They are offering rides this weekend.

Big shout out to the Commemorative Air Force for keeping these big planes up n running.

Next week they will be in Cincinatti at an air show.

First off cool, but second! How hard is it to spell Cincinnati? My city is easy to spell lol.

[RichardDarkwood]

First off cool, but second! How hard is it to spell Cincinnati? My city is easy to spell lol.

lol  i used Dale's auto correct

[RichardDarkwood]

I will be live streaming the start up and take off today at 10am on my YouTube channel.




https://www.youtube.com/@richarddarkwood5408

[RichardDarkwood]

The pilot was a straight pre-madonna. Took the guy twenty five minutes just to get in the pilot seat. Then he forgot his checklist. I went through the plane three times yesterday and it was really warm inside it. The passengers boarded at 10am and the pilot didn't crank up the engines until 10:40am.

Was a good time watching it take off.

[Bizman]

Pre-madonna??? Had to read it out loud a few times until I figured out what you meant! I was just thinking about a pilot that had started his career before Madonna started making music, or something along the lines of her demos published under that name. Nice! 

[RotBaron]

Prima donna, definition here: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/prima-donna

[RotBaron]

It tours around the country, world at times and has been in a few movies too.

Its home is Mesa, AZ - CAF Museum. I’ve been fortunate enough to climb inside and get a private tour (rainy day only one interested) from one of the crew ~2015.

It’s a shame that at one point a friend’s Great-Uncle and Adolf Galland worked together to build a fighter museum out there that was quite incredible. Falcon field is still a great visit if you have the opportunity but once upon a time there was a much larger collection there that’s been parsed out around the country.

Pima Air & Space is a lot more bang for your effort if you’re visiting AZ. However, you can also rent/tour the CAF planes. $325 for a B-25 waist gunner seat ride. 

https://www.azcaf.org/fly-with-us/

Glad you got to see her, I hate to think of their fate 20-30yrs and beyond. 😬