Sentimental Journey Central Nebraska Regional Airport 7/4/08

dropctune · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:19 am

First off I wanna say hi all! I've been browsing the forum for a couple of years and finally decided to join up :roll:

Here are a few pics I took when Sentimental Journey was in Grand Island, NE a couple of years ago giving rides for the weekend. Wish she was coming back to Nebraska this year... Best regards, Drew

TAdan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:00 am

Thanks for sharing. What a beautiful Fort.

It has been far too long since I have seen SJ in person. I hope she comes back to the East Coast for a bit.

I still remember crawling through SJ and the Arizona Wings HE-111 at an airshow.

kmiles · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:50 am

Nine-O-Nine will be in Omaha for the weekend of July 16-19.

LysanderUK · **Joined:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:01 pm **Posts:** 271

Looking at the picture of the chin and tail turrets got me wondering- why do alot of these turret guns have the anti-flash muzzles fitted? I've seen quite a few in archive pics and on restored warbirds like SJ, and I just wondered why they were fitted.

Great pics Drew, welcome to the forum!

dropctune · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:31 pm

kmiles wrote:

Nine-O-Nine will be in Omaha for the weekend of July 16-19.

Woohoo!!Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to post a ton of pics

dropctune · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:39 pm

LysanderUK wrote:

Looking at the picture of the chin and tail turrets got me wondering- why do alot of these turret guns have the anti-flash muzzles fitted? I've seen quite a few in archive pics and on restored warbirds like SJ, and I just wondered why they were fitted.

Great pics Drew, welcome to the forum!

I've often wondered the same thing. And why just the chin turret and tail guns?
Hopefully someone can share some insight on that one. I'm cluless....

spookythecat · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:23 pm

Great pics! Also, I love your avatar!

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:03 am

I took these two photos on 26 June 2002 just down the road at Kearney. The hangar was being prepped for a wonderful big-band hangar dance that evening.

This is the sole remaining WWII hangar at Kearney and was the Weight And Balance hangar when B-17s were being processed. Two Forts could be accomodated, loaded, weighed and prepped at a time. When Kearney AAF was tasked with B-29 processing this hangar was used to build up flyaway kits and as a liferaft inspection shop.

Scott

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