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Flying Fortress (B 17)
« on: May 02, 2011, 05:28:22 PM »
 The wife and I were out birding this weekend 22 miles from the nearest large airport and I hear that unmistakeable sound of four props coming at us. Very cool to see.
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2011, 06:06:53 PM »
That's one beautiful plane, where  were you at?
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2011, 06:09:17 PM »
 Near Black Diamond. It came from the Renton-valley direction, probably around for an air show.
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2011, 06:10:20 PM »
Sweet!
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2011, 09:28:18 PM »
Knarly.
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2011, 09:30:19 PM »
AWESOME!
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2011, 09:32:25 PM »
Cool picture.  That's a sight that made a lot of hearts pound, for good... and bad many years ago.
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2011, 05:27:47 AM »
Now thats a bird!
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2011, 05:29:06 AM »
Looks like the guns are present.  I wonder if they are replicas or the real deal.
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2011, 05:45:12 AM »
One of those comes to Spokane every year and flies around for a week or so. Very impressive but imagine 2000 of them going over head. I had a customer who was a child in germany during the war and she said the sky was black with them almost daily flying over her villiage on the way to the targets.
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2011, 05:47:40 AM »
Not many of that generation left.   UNREAL
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2011, 08:20:27 AM »
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2011, 09:36:41 PM »
it comes here almost every year.  you can go for rides in them something like $400 for 30-60 min. sometimes they bring a ww2 fighter with them
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Re: Flying Fortress (B 17)
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2011, 09:31:27 AM »
Beautiful!
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