TOM WALSH wrote:
In the end, the only concern is the safe operation of this aircraft
This is true for Chuckie as well. Even though we ran all 4 engines on her last weekend, we found some issues with the landing gear last night when we jacked her up to do the gear portion of the 100 hour and those issues are regrettably going to prevent us from being B-17 #9 at Thunder.

We have not flown in over 2 years and working these gear issues is not going to leave us enough time to get everything else done on the airplane, and get crews recurrent, AND do a couple of shakedown flights before flying across the country to Michigan.
Trust me, no one is more disappointed that we are at the Vintage Flying Museum. We were really looking forward to making the Gathering of Fortress's our debut air show, what could have been better?
We are still pressing on towards flying, we just won't be ready before August 6th. I apoligize to everyone out there that was pulling for us, thank you for your support. Like Tom said, the only concern is the safe operation of this aircraft. Please keep checking our thread in the Retroaviation Maintenance Hangar for updates on when we will start flying again. Hopefully it will be very soon. We would really like to catch at least one or two shows in the local North Texas area this year.
CrewDawg the Disappointed