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Roger Cain
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Lots of pictures, give it a chance to load.

Another great day at Schellville Airport (Sonoma Valley) on Monday. Don Brooks brought in his B-17 Flying Fortress named "Liberty Belle", for a days visit, landing on the 2900' grass runway, using less than 2000' of it to stop. The largest plane to ever land at Schellville, it was escorted in by Chris Prevost with his P-40 Kittyhawk and Dan Vance with his P-51 Mustang.

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Tom Morris makes a pass in Prevost's SNJ.

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Prevost takes Brooks out for some hands on flying.

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Walter Bowe takes Don Carter's Curtiss-Wright 19R out for a flight, joining up with Prevost in the P-40.

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Don Brooks (B-17 owner) Ray Fowler (Chief pilot), and Tom Wilson with Chris Prevost in the B-17 cockpit.

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Prevost takes Wilson (a P-40 restorer also) out for a ride.

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"Hang the Expense" waves goodbye

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I hope you enjoyed these.

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Very nice Roger, the shot of the P-51 and P-40 in formation's a particularly good catch.
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Great pictures! It's good to see her in action out west. After spending quite a bit of time working on her during winter maintenance, I miss seeing her on a regular basis!!!!

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Wow, we are really spoiled today with all these amazing shots !!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you !

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Very nice Roger.We had some fun did we not?Thanks Hang

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You guys are welcome, I felt fortunate to be there for it.


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Very nice Roger.We had some fun did we not?Thanks Hang
Yes we did, nice to meet you in person....

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The pictures are fantastic! Thank you for sharing!

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Hang,

Nice to meet you from me too.

I test flew the Curtiss Jenny today. Did five flights on the new Hisso OH. Wish we had been ready on Monday. Next time.

See ya at the next event.

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Hey Eric,You lucky dog.The deal still stands we discussed.That Jenny is beautiful.Nice to meet you guys finally as well.If you find yourselves lost around atlanta give me a call and come check out the kittyhawk and maybe the hawk.

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Very nice pics! I know Don enjoyed being in that P-40. :D
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You gotta luv the Fortress! Thanks for the great photos.

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Fantastic pics Roger!!! Its good to see the Liberty boys out there still!

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Great pictures, Roger.

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