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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: maddafinga on November 01, 2009, 06:43:47 PM

Title: Saw a B17 today
Post by: maddafinga on November 01, 2009, 06:43:47 PM
Was going to lunch and spotted a B17 flying overhead.  Ate lunch and then went out to the secondary airport in town to check it out.  Managed to get there in time to get a good walkaround and take some camera pics, chat with the pilot of a Mustang that was parked there too, and catch the startup and takeoff of the next flight.  It was fantastic.  I couldn't manage to get the camera going again in time to catch the runup and actual takeoff, but I did get some crappy shots of the startup. Anyway, just phone camera pics, but here they are, enjoy!
(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/maddafinga_photos/b17_1.jpg)
(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/maddafinga_photos/pony_buff.jpg)
(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/maddafinga_photos/b17_tailgun.jpg)
(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/maddafinga_photos/b17_takeoff2.jpg)
(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/maddafinga_photos/miraclemaker_2.jpg)
(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/maddafinga_photos/b17_3.jpg)
(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/maddafinga_photos/miraclemaker.jpg)

Man that thing sounded fantastic on takeoff.
Title: Re: Saw a B17 today
Post by: Curlew on November 02, 2009, 02:31:26 PM
Nice pictures  :rock
Title: Re: Saw a B17 today
Post by: StokesAk on November 02, 2009, 02:32:13 PM
Those are some nice pictures, whenever i got an airshow it always rains and the pictures are horrible.
Title: Re: Saw a B17 today
Post by: maddafinga on November 02, 2009, 02:58:10 PM
I guess the light was good or I got lucky somehow.  Usually my phone pictures come out terrible.  What was cool about this was that it wasn't an airshow, the bomber was just visiting and I happened to catch it.  Guess I got lucky all around.