I see aircraft everyday but this one was a little different…
Love that plane!
That looks like Chuckie out of Ft Worth Texas!! Where do you live??
Hey Dice
Are you coming to the nationals in atlanta? It’s real close to dobbins afb if you are interested.
Man-that’s a problem to have!
Dan
I’m in Utah and I think the B-17 is “Fuddy-Duddy”.
Vance, sorry buit no way I can make it to the east coast I’ll just have to wait for our air show at Hill AFB next year.
Nice pics. I only live a few miles from the Yankee Air Force so I get to see similar aircraft fly over quite regularly. Always a thrill.
Regards, Rick
man never seen a b-17 fly over my house befor but i live by Patric afb i have seen a c-47 fly over befor it crashed in an accident but they are restoring it (tico belle for all the people who been to the tico air show).there are alot of modern planes military have flown over befor but thats the first time i have seen a ww2 plane do it! nice pics-brad
“Sally B” the only B17 flying in England has been grounded by new insurance rules that class her alongside a 727! The operators can’t afford it and that looks like the end for another old warrior.
Anybody have any ideas on how to find out what the insurance requirements are for civilian owned warplanes to operate in Europe? This is the second time the subject of insurance on warplanes has come up and now its got my curiosity going.
T.Young [8-]
Fuddy-Duddy is a winner!! Here is its tour schedule:
http://www.b17.org/tour/
T.Young [8-]
Fantastic…
What a thrill that must have been…there’s nothing like the sound of a great big round engine (or a bunch of them) overhead.
Imagine what 200, or 300, or 500 of them must have sounded like flying overhead…
I’ll get the PB(?) whatever, (navy single tail, B-24), slurry bombers buzz my house once in a while. Man, that wakes you up when 4 round engines blast over at less than 1500 ft.
Very cool… Fuddy Duddy was based out in Elmira at the National Warplane Museum not long ago…very cool bomber. Bully Hill wines, based in NY, even had a “Fortress Blush” wine for a while that proceeds went to the Museum…I have a bottle of it. Looks like they’re coming nearby at the end of August to Schenectady…gonna make a visit!
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QUOTE: Originally posted by TailspinTom
Anybody have any ideas on how to find out what the insurance requirements are for civilian owned warplanes to operate in Europe? This is the second time the subject of insurance on warplanes has come up and now its got my curiosity going.
T.Young [8-]
Warbirds are a problem here in UK. Our version of your FAA, the Civil Aviation Authority, or “Campaign Against Aviation” has no equivalent for the FAA “experimental” category and some aircraft (Lightning, Buccaneer) are forbidden to fly in civilian hands under any circumstances. It doesn’t help that the popular press believe ww2 aircraft to have been built to a limitede lifespan and intrinsically unairworthy so many years on so that any accident is trumpeted as idiot enthusiasts putting public safety at risk. Sally B’s insurance problems stem from a new directive from the European Union which we are obliged to enact into British law, and has been drafted without regard for historics. If I remember my school history lessons, a similar conflict over the primacy of state v union law led to your tragic civil war, (I never studied it too closely since niether side had an airforce). Sally B is dedicated by her owners to the memory of the mighty eighth, and looks so fine flying past with P51 on one wing and P47 on the other and it will be so sad to finally loose that shape from English skies.
PB4Y-2
T.Y.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by snibble
When I was in England back in 1991 - 1995, I saw the Sally B at Duxford and when it came to the Mildenhall Air Fetes.
After I posted my last question I poked arounf the net anf found this forum response on the affair:
http://www.flightforum.net/archive/index.php/t-5.html
Can’t the aviation warbird owner organizations/Museums lobby your representative in Parliment to try and do something about the insurance classification problem?
I suppose, because of the CAA rules, that is why the civilian owner of the only civil owned Lightning and Buccaneer keeps them in South Africa.
Later,
T.Young [8-]
Lobbying for an exception for Sally B is under way. There are “airworthy” lightnings in the UK and they display by performing a mock QRA scramble down the runway at Bruntingthorpe. Full reheat to the point of rotation then pop the chute and taxi back in. The temptation to just tweak the stick back a little must be enormous.
There is nothing like a B-17 Flyby! I had the pleasure of experiencing it in 1990 in Stockton,Calif. (USA) just before the airshow. I worked at the airport & found out that the B-17 was owned & flown by Pappy Boyington’s brother Patrick (?) whom I believe was a ret. Lt. Col. Nothing quite compares to the sound them engines make![:D][tup]
Hippy Ed
Thanks for the info!
T. Young [8-]