Author Topic: real world B-17 bomber flying. (Read 889 times)

Chaos68 · « **on:** September 03, 2001, 08:59:00 PM »

At the airport by my work we have one of the 11 B-17 bombers. I thinks her name is Yankee Lady. She was flying from 6am till 2:30ish. The whole time i was at work. it made my day. I spent more time looking up in the sky then i did at my work.

Here are some shots of her in flight.
Sorry the picture isnt as clear but when i shrunk the picture the image got grainy.

The Bomber did fly right over head. So low i could see her rivets. I tryed to take a snapshot but my camera was full

Fastbikkel · « **Reply #1 on:** September 04, 2001, 12:12:00 AM »

That IS cool

great!

Chaos68 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 04, 2001, 01:38:00 PM »

Today it was up agin all day.

Even a P-51 was up and flying at around 500 feet.

Today i heard that a P-38 is comming! whoohoo!

Just seeing them makes me want to play AH!

Sky Viper · « **Reply #3 on:** September 04, 2001, 03:01:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Chaos68:
At the airport by my work...

You work near Bishop International?

I ask because Sunday afternoon I heard the rumble of what I knew was a couple of huge warbird engines.
I was in my home office and ran my fat bellybutton outside as fast as I could, but by the time I got out there, they were out of sight.
My wife said there were 5 war type aircraft in formation.

I live under the normal flight path but the many tall trees make it difficult for the view to last.

Sky Viper
XO No. 54 Squadron

ackbait · « **Reply #4 on:** September 04, 2001, 05:58:00 PM »

i always like seeing the yankee lady fly over, my house is under part of the traffic patterns for willow run so whnever its taking of of landing from the north it usually passes over me.

Chaos68 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 04, 2001, 10:29:00 PM »

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Originally posted by ackbait:
i always like seeing the yankee lady fly over, my house is under part of the traffic patterns for willow run so whnever its taking of of landing from the north it usually passes over me.

DING DING DING!! I work in Canton and my work is right in the landing path

I think there giving rides or something because it takes off for 30 minutes then lands again for 15 minutes then takes off again.

Did you see the P-51 mustang today (Sep 4th) around 2pm?

DId you go to the Fighter excibit a few weeks ago? I wanted to see the P-47.

Starbird · « **Reply #6 on:** September 05, 2001, 05:19:00 PM »

Went to the yankee airforce's flyin a few weeks ago. I brought my camcorder and 2 tapes, and took about 2 hours of footage.

I just wish I had a dat recorder or something better than what is on my dv cam. could've got some awesome start/runup sounds.

A few select pics (sorry about the quality, trying out some new software):

Chaos68 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 05, 2001, 09:51:00 PM »

How much did it cost you to fly in the yankee?

I would have a heart attack if i was able to go.

Starbird · « **Reply #8 on:** September 06, 2001, 06:14:00 PM »

No, wasn't able to fly in it.

Tho I think they had a raffle to fly in either their b17 or c47. I forget which now.

Was a fun day tho.

GunnerCAF · « **Reply #9 on:** September 07, 2001, 05:01:00 PM »

Here are some pics from a flight I had in Aluminum Overcast.
http://webpages.charter.net/davegun/b17.htm

Gunner <CAF>

ackbait · « **Reply #10 on:** September 07, 2001, 08:33:00 PM »

nope didnt see the p-51 flying around, and i want able to go to the fighter fly in a few weeks ago because i was out of town that weekend.