here is a present to all

JBrawner · **Posted:** Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:52 pm

Merry Christmas to all

and with that ill share some photos of our fun at VFM this week. We had some folks doing check rides and such. i got a small present ... i was asked to be flight engineer for the first time, a great honor in my book. so all in all(not to make anyone jealous or rub it in) i got a little over 2 hrs this past week flying around fort worth.
oh yea.... see chuckie does fly... just not as much as everyone else.

i was looking for traffic at our about 3-4 o'clock

a shot of Carswell in the distance

B17news · **Posted:** Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:54 pm

those are great photos.
Thanks!
B

ausflyboy · **Posted:** Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:55 pm

simply breathtaking..your a lucky fella!!!! I could only wish to see something like that over here in Brisbane, Australia!!!!

hang the expense · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:37 am

Beautiful and my hats off to those who keep her polished.What a job.

K5DH · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:14 am

JBrawner wrote:

We had some folks doing check rides and such.

I haven't been able to make it down to the Museum all month, so I'm outta touch. Who took their check rides?

Merry Christmas to all!

T33driver · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:34 pm

Great stuff Jon! Congrats!

JBrawner · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2007 1:52 pm

well dean one of ours got a check ride in but he wants to remain in the shadows and he is a lurker here so i gotta give him crap like this. our other guy didn t get his check ride yet, but was ok'd to get it...but itll be after first of the year. the third guy who was up here flying was al maxwell, he flies thunderbird he needed to have a PPE done so he came up and did it in ours and ok'd our two guys to take thier checkrides .

and thanks to all... glad i could share some pics and videos with you guys and girls

K5DH · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2007 2:00 pm

Tnx fer the info, Jon. I know who the "lurker" is! I'll PM him and give him my congrats. Hopefully I'll get some advance notice on when "the other guy" is going to take his checkride so that I can be there (and maybe fly with 'em, or at least ground crew for 'em!).

See ya!

valdez25 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2007 2:37 pm

Congrats to the newest "Chuckie checkee". I'll bet he's the youngest B-17 pilot on the planet too!!!! A great guy and pilot. Merry Christmas

pmahaffey · **Posted:** Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:36 am

It was a fun couple of days. We did quite a bit of flying. And the airplane is running beautifully. The examiner commented several times on what a clean running B-17 we have. Comments like that make all the blood sweat and tears worth it.

Patrick Mahaffey
B-17 "Chuckie" pilot/mechanic

Ztex · **Posted:** Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:15 am

Great to see her at work!

Congrats to the new flyer too!

DiggerWW2 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:27 am

Awesome shots!! What Camera was used??
I'm guessing a Nikon D-80?? What Lens?? ... Digger

JBrawner · **Posted:** Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:49 am

lol i wish digger, its a hand me down.. i am a full time AP student. its a kodak easyshare Z740 5.0mp no lenses attached just the 10x optical zoom. i guess i just know how to really work with what i got .. or i got lucky with the shots? im leaning more towards just got lucky with the shots

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