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1. 05:43 AM - B-17 gone (william sullivan)
2. 06:34 AM - Re: B-17 gone (Dennis Thate)
3. 08:19 AM - Re: B-17 gone (Pat Ladd)
4. 09:17 PM - Tail spring... (Nick Cassara)
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- Sad news in this morning's paper.- The Liberty Foundation's B-17 caug
ht fire, and made an emergency landing in a corn field near Chicago.- Tot
ally destroyed.- All got out, with one minor injury.- It used to belong
to Pratt and Whitney, and when I was a kid we used to park at the end of t
heir runway and watch it take off.- Then it went to the air museum here i
n town, and was heavily damaged in the tornado of 1979.- Sold to the foun
dation, rebuilt, and I last saw it in Hartford last year.- It will be mis
sed.- It was a beautiful airplane.
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do not archive
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- Bill Sullivan
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- Windsor Locks, Ct.
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- still a fan of B-17's
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Here's the link
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/n...,5339638.story
I once worked with a friend who was a B-17 ball turret gunner because of his small
size. He witnessed from his B-17 ball turret an entire fully loaded box explode
into a ball of fire and disappear over France enroute to a target. That
was 10 planes with 10 crew on each.
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the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=342942#342942
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B-17 caught fire,>>
That is really bad news. There are few enough of these machines left.
Although the box formation which the US Air Force put such trust in
proved not so effective as hoped when they went into action the B 17 was
an incredible plane.
I was looking round one when I was in the States some years ago and
talking to the guide who had been a B`7 gunner in the UK.
I said` She has the nose addition so she must have been a mark G so you
must have been stationed at Framlingham` I was right and having
established that I had some idea what I was talking about we got into a
very interesting discussion about the war etc. At this point a guy
about 45 with a small child intow came through the fuselage. He rapped
with his knuckles on the aluminium skin and said to the guide. `Is this
all you had to keep the bullets out"
The gunner looked at me and rolled his eyes in disbelief. I shall
always remember his expression.
Incidentally I came across these statistics recently
276000 a/c were built in the US
14000 were lost in the USA
43000 lost oversea
Out of that 276000 planes only (?) 23000 were lost in actual combat
The B 17 cost $204370. each
the most produced aircraft was the Russian Sturmovik
Cheers
Pat
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Rick,
I and probable others, would love to see a picture of you tail wheel
modifications, could you post a picture for us? A picture of reduced file
size that is..J
Thanks,
Nick Cassara
Palmer, Alaska
Working way to much.no building for two months
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