What’s the Lead…for a B-17 flying by your house a few hundred feet off the deck?
The Collings Foundation’s in town again (B-17, B-24, B-25, P-51) as they are every year, and geeking out like this is exactly why I bought a house in the glide path of the local airport.
Tomorrow at 0830, after ten years of looking and not doing, the wife and I will finally be strapping in for a ride in Witchcraft.
I did the ride in a similar B-24 from Collings about 15 years ago. What a blast, never forget it. Watch out for the nose wheel if you go up front, it’s still moving pretty good.
Now you got me all giddy about the possibility of them coming to Spokane. There was a B-17 making the circuit out to C’dA from Fairchild several times a day for a couple of days last year…and now I’m living right under the short approach to Fairchild!
My dad flew B-17s in Europe. He said the B-24 was the crate the B-17 was shipped in. 🙂
I be jealous! 🙂
A very distinctive and memorable sound those four radials make. I’d love to hear what a whole squadron flying by in tight formation would sound like, but that’s not likely to ever happen again.