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Offline popeye

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Lunchtime treat...
« on: July 21, 2000, 11:52:00 AM »
Went outside to find some lunch.  The sky was a bright blue with big puffy white clouds, a perfect summer day.  As I was walking down the street, I heard the low drone of multi engine, looked up just in time to see a B-17G come over the treeline at about 4k feet.  He flew right overhead then made a lazy banked 90 degree turn to the north.  I stood there watching til he was out of sight....

I think it was the "Yankee Lady" out of Willow Run.  What a beauty.  

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Offline Gunthr

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Lunchtime treat...
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2000, 01:05:00 PM »
A treat indeed  

I learned to fly there at Willow Run (Willow Run Airflight), and my grandma riveted B24 Liberators there. My mom lives on Bomber Ave. in Ypsilanti!

Now I live near Ft. Lauderdale, and every now and then I get to see a B-17 flying over our home, always relatively low. It really makes your day.  
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Lunchtime treat...
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2000, 04:37:00 PM »
i recently flew myself upto michigan on the way in decatur Ill. i landed at the airport and saw a b-17 sitting on the ramp.she was a beut.