Re: a big boy, and starting that engine

my recollection from when i was a second grader, building models
of these things while inhaling copious amounts of airplane glue:
the 17 was "the flying fortress" and the 24, a 4-engined
twin-ruddered plane, was "the liberator"

very nice images of the 17, a singularly beautiful bomber.

-rei

On May23 22:42, Mark Bohrer wrote:
> The recent WWII bomber visit to the San Francisco Bay Area also 
> included a B-17G Liberator, and a B-25 Mitchell. The Liberator was 
> the mainstay of the U.S. Army Air Force, and the RAF used a few, too.
> 
> The Liberator was majestic in flight:
> http://tinyurl.com/2m6u24
> http://tinyurl.com/2mf3ss
> 
> and in landing:
> http://tinyurl.com/2om22e
> 
> The B-17 was originally designed in the late 1930s, and its lines show it:
> http://tinyurl.com/35jke5
> 
> Some of the present-day crew were unusual for the airplane:
> http://tinyurl.com/2v2jvd
> 
> The B-25 Mitchell was best known for the one-way bombing attack James 
> Doolittle's squadron made on Tokyo, the first long-range bombing 
> effort made by the U.S. after Pearl Harbor.
> 
> There seemed to be a little trouble starting engines for the Mitchell:
> http://tinyurl.com/2sftg8
> http://tinyurl.com/37u6wk
> 
> But everything worked eventually:
> http://tinyurl.com/2l9r34
> 
> All comments welcome.
> 
> Mark Bohrer
> Wildlife Photography on the Urban Edge
> www.mountain-and-desert.com
> 
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