DAMN!!! That is effin' cool! I want a picture of one of my Cadillacs next to a P-38 real bad now!!!!! LUCKY!
GREAT PICS! What a great photo op for your '32 too. I got most of the pics saved. I hope you don't mind, I have to share some of them with some buddies. The coolness must be spread throughout the "interweb"
By the way, my grandad flew 68 combat missions as a bombardier in the B-17s. Once you click the link below scroll down to George Lee Yarbrough. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okbits/sh_star2007may.html I am proud!!! ...and can't not say anything when something like this comes about. I'd like to get a closer look at a B-17 sometime.
drjones, The flight engineer instructed us before the flight that once we were airborne he would allow us to go anywhere in the plane. Well when the wheels just cleared he told us to go!! After getting through the bomb bay (which was rockin & rollin) I made it to the front turret and sat down in the little chair and was hanging out with the clouds! This was just awesome! 32 Spitfire
Hey 32, what is that in the bottom right of the photo. Is that the sight glass for the bombediere? My grandad had a replica of the alignment or sight glass or whatever you want to call it that was about dime size inside a glass cube. ...was an award of some kind I think. I remember picking it up and looking at it when I was a little kid on numberous occasions.
And speaking of the Collings Foundation (which is next door to me), for those on the East Coast, you can ride in a PT-17 or an AT-6 there this weekend. http://www.cfdn.org/cf_RofC2010.htm
"The Norton Bomb Site was top secret in WWII. Crews were instructed to destroy the device rather than have it fall into enemy hands." 32 Spitfire
Cool deal! I think you mean Norden bombsight. The Norton bombsight was used by Ed Norton on the honeymooners. LOL. Lippy
I just ran accross this photo which shows almost all of the B-24 Liberator and my 32. I had the privilege of speaking to a WWII B-17 pilot just before this photo was taken and he told me he always liked the oval looking engines on the B-24. Thought you might like to see a grand ole warbird! And my 32 too......... 32 Spitfire
got to climb aboard "aluminum overcast" about ten years ago at the peoria il. airport. quite impressive,something ill never forget.
Way cool. I flew on 909 a few years back when they were going from Lancaster PA to trenton NJ, a friend with the airshow got me onboard, it's really cool to stick yer head out of a airplane! ( didja try that? ) cheers! Great car!
Lazlobassett, During the B-17 flight while I was walking around I came to the top area where they had removed a large panel because it was quite hot and the flight engineer said stick your head out! I thought yea right knowing I'd be sucked out...... but I finally did holding my camera with one hand and a death grip with my other hand on the planes frame. I took some cool photos of the tail bobbing up and down. Then on to the bomb bay cat-walk and inching slowely over with the bomb doors that were vibrating below. I thought how the bombing crews would climb down there to dislodge the bombs if they got stuck!! 32 Spitfire
That is awesome! I'm green with envy. My dad flew B-24's from England to Germany during WWII, and I never saw one until today. Gratz on being able to get a ride in the B-17.
Man what a great thing to do- I believe that the B-17 was/is the most beautiful and deadly combo in the sky- bar none- thanks for posting these pics-
Cool, thread cant believe I posted on it almost two years ago. Then a couple weeks after I did the Nine-O-Nine B-17, WitchCraft B-24 and the Betty Jane P-51 came to a local airport. Wish I had the coin to go for a flight but got to walk thru them, take a bunch of pics with my Son, we both loved it. Check out the Bomb Bay Pic you have to be 7 years old or mighty skinny to fit thru the Bomb Bay on the B-24
Thanks again for the very nice complements on my "32 Spitfire"! I just received a note from an good English friend I had worked with for over 20 years after I had just sent him the Street Rodder article on this car. He had came over from England years ago and became a US citizen for the rights to enjoy our gun ownership. In the note he mentioned a couple very intersting points I would like to share with you all. "In all my 12 years of flying in the RAF one of my few regrets was always to have been too young for the Battle of Britain. However the life expectancy for the pilot in the Battle of Britain was just three weeks. But we won, against the mighty Luftwaffe due to a mistake that Hitler had made because he got ticked off. (More on that later)" "How many know that the first casualty in the Battle of Britain was an American? Also it was an American who persuaded the RAF to synchronise the eight .303's in the Spitfires to 200 yards instead of the 600 yards that they were at?" I want to meet with my friend soon and ask him more on the Battle of Britain and the fantastic Spitfire! I thought you would enjoy this. 32 Spitfire
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