Friday, April 25, 2008

B-17 Flight

I had an opportunity, thanks to my flying ability and the help of a friends pocket book to fly in an old WWII B-17 bomber. Below are a couple of the pictures I took and a short video. It was awesome!


Apparently there is only about 8 or so of these still flying today


Not sure if its true, but someone told me the average live expectancy of a tail gunner in combat was less than a minute.


This is looking out of the open sliding canopy, which they kept open the whole flight


This was the flight back from Gillespee field in San Diego. We were socked in like this the whole way. This picture was taken over Temecula, if that wasn't obvious


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