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About ten years ago.  That lady is a 25 minute drive away from my place...

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We had two one year a nice Army brown one and a B24 several C47s Fat Albert st7yle C130 was her with the AF team flying over in Salinas and did several flybys.\


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For the pikes must be together at the rising of the moon.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote paddyofurniture Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2021 at 4:36pm
Way cool!
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Here’s a couple B-17’s I visited a few years ago Angry
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I thought (maybe incorrectly) that "Sentimental Journey" was origianally a B - 25..not a B-17
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 Not certain and I may be mis-remembering stuff but, I've been going out to Falcon Field since I was able to drive"1984" and, I have always remembered her as Sentimental Journey. 
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Originally posted by hoadie hoadie wrote:

I thought (maybe incorrectly) that "Sentimental Journey" was origianally a B - 25..not a B-17

She’s a B-17G currently residing in Mesa Arizona. 
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Can you imagine climbing into a bomber knowing 25% of the flight won't be coming home from the mission.  Two or three times a week, for months on end.  Where do we find such men?

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The best bomber of WWII. 

Just afraid to come out and play in the daytime.  ;-)

Now, the B-29 could fly 60% further(!), 71 mph faster, 7,300 ft higher and carry more . . . 

Everyone points out the 22,000 lb Grand Slam vs. the "standard" 20,000 lb B-29 load out - but a B-29 carried the 43,600 lb T12 Cloudmaker Bomb (1944 prototype) as a test before the B-36.  It could also carry the T-14 22,000 lb US version of the Grand Slam.

Lancaster was a great bomber.  But the B-29, in service just a year later, was a long way ahead in all performance measures.

Credit to the aircrews of both bombers.  Remember that the most "successful" fighter of WWII was the Brewster Buffalo (really).  In the Finnish air service it was "sporterized" as the B-239 and had a 14:1 kill ratio.  Not surpassed until the US F-14.  One squadron had a 26:1 ratio and a single airframe was credited with 42-1/2 kills and is thought to be the highest in WWII of any one airframe.

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definite credit to all aircrews , nothing was as easy as it is now , 

my avitar/moniker is a B-29 and ive held back on jumping in at this point but a ride on FI FI would be a dream come true , love to sit in the left waste blister as my father did , but then if i never do - so be it , 

there was a place for all of these and the landcasters and 17s had their job , they helped bring us to VE  but just as mitchel had to stretch his 24s beyond their reach , only the 29s could reach japan in those days with a full payload and get back , ill be thinking on that again in august as i celebrate the VJ end of the war , 
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Oh you mean this bad boy?
(The tall, brown one)!

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Its not a Spitfire but none the less, it is still a beautiful beast. One of the many planes inside the CAF museum...
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the Mustang is a great fighter with a great motor! Better range than the Spitfire and almost as prettyWink.

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that one is pretty 
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Re;my earlier post...It was Executive Sweet that was a B-25. (Forgive me for I know not what I do as I go into the age thing)
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