Amazon 7 #1 June 5, 2005 I thought I heard some radials.. and they just kept gettin louder.... next thing I know.. I see a B-17 cruising along about 3000 ft over my house... SCHWEEEEEEEEEETTTT Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cloudseeker2001 0 #2 June 6, 2005 When I used to live in Galveston, the Lone Star Flight Museum B-17 along with a few other WWII aircraft would fly over once a month or so! Could you imagine what a WWII bombing run must have sounded like? "Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance, others mean and rueful of the western dream" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybill 22 #3 June 6, 2005 Hi ZON', That's just too cool!! I've had the pleasure to tour "Sentimental Journey" B-17 one day at Orange County Airport Ca. I've seen several others do fly by's here and there at airshows!! The topping on the cake was the "Buzz Job" at Elsinore by the B-17 and the B-24 Liberator in 1995 when the armada got ready to go coast to coast to comemorate the end of WWII. We were hanging at Elsinore getting ready to dirt dive and I noticed these two vintage WWII airplanes (the B-17 and the "Lib") flying along the ridge line of the Ortegas. Then the "17's" engines picked up revs and it banked off heading twords us!! I run out to the runway yelling "BUZZJOB, BUZZJOB!!!!" and sure enough, they complied!! We mooned them on the way by!!! Kathy jacklin was on the radio and transmitted,"Aircraft overflying Elsinore for a gearcheck, we didn't really get a good look can you make another pass??" They were out over the lake and both did a 180 degree turn and came back!!!! We mooned them again!!! I know Rich Hayatt still has the photo's!!!!!!! And the video!!!SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
