Warbird Information Exchange

I flew in Aluminum Overcast in 1995. Something I will never forget.

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

"Fuddy Duddy" was my first B-17 ride, years ago at Geneseo.
"Nine-O-Nine" a couple of times over the years.
"Liberty Belle" from Connecticut to Virginia in 2009.
"Yankee Lady" last year.

All great trips, but "Liberty Belle" down the Eastcoast was special on many levels for me and my wife!
Jerry

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Yankee Lady - Michigan, 2008
Yankee Lady - Tennessee, 2009

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Steve Turner, USAF aircraft refueler 50+ years ago.

Texas Raiders....a cross country from Dyess AFB to Love Field, Dallas. 1997

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.

Yankee Lady - Reading, PA, in 2008.

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Nine-O-Nine ... Trenton, NJ ... probably 2002 ... I was in the process of converting my cousin's home 8mm films while he was serving with the 381st BG as a RO and took films while on board B-17's.

It was a lifetime experience for this RO who only flew in C's (46,47, 54, 119 & 124)

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Jerry
S/Sgt. - USAF Radio Operator '52-'56
C-119 "Flying Boxcar"

Volunteer: National Museum of the US Air Force
LTM 381st Bomb Group Memorial Association

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Evergreen's on a maint flight at Marana, AZ.

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Rich Palmer

Remember an Injured Youth
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#64- Stay Strong and Keep the Faith

BOOM BOOM, ROUND ROUND, PROPELLER GO

Don't Be A Dilbert!

Aluminum Overcast was my first B-17 ride in 2000. I flew on Liberty Belle numerous times including a very chilly January cross country from Albuquerque, NM to Canton, GA in 2010. That was a special flight for me since I got to fly in the right seat for about 2 1/2 hours! Hopefully, soon I'll get some rides in The Movie Memphis Belle

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Rod Schneider
Ball Ground, Ga
(My avatar is a picture of me getting some right seat time in "Liberty Belle". I really miss her.)

Nine O Nine (w. the old man) 2011. Awesome
I would have been on that Yankee Lady flight that Jerry flew on last year but he kicked me out of the doorway when I was boarding.

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Keep Em' Flying,
Christopher Soltis
Dedicated to the preservation and education of The Sikorsky Memorial Airport

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'ALUMINUM OVERCAST' ... 1998?

Had my 35mm film camera (that was all there was back then...) took pictures throughout the flight; went to un-load the camera afterwards - yep, no film.....

Picadilly Lilly, 1970

Aluminum Overcast in 2008, Purdue University.

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Several missions on "Thunderbird", N900RW, notably from Oshkosh to St Paul, MN, and then to Galveston with a fuel stop in Springdale, AR. Got a bit more than an hour of stick time on her.

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If God had wanted man to fly behind a flat motor, Pratt Whitney would've built one.

Taxied in The Movie Belle
Flew on Fuddy Duddy at Oshkosh
Flew on Sentimental Journey from EKM to Dekalb,IL including a flyover at a retirement home where a bunch of B-17 vets were brought outside for the fly by. Also got right seat in it.

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"Sir we don't have a runway 5"

"Folks, take my advice. Pull down your pants, and slide on the ice."

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Got left seat stick time in SJ on 9-6-10, with my family aboard, from the same ramp that my Dad started his Air Corp flying career 67 years earlier to the day. He went on to fly B-17's with the 483rd and 2nd. I didn't know the significance of the date until later when I checked his log book.

Steve