Didn't go inside the B-17. I don't do lines, and this 72 year old body doesn't fold into spaces designed to accommodate fit young men.
I'm just putting up the pictures without comments. Enjoy or skip at your pleasure.
Not my first choice for footwear on concrete.
There were some interesting vendors.
This author, Kenny Kemp, moderates a Facebook Page about the WWII Pacific Theater.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwiipacific/
The foundation makes the bulk of their income from selling rides so being able to see the other aircraft can be hit or miss. Admission is reasonable.
For more resolution than Blogger allows try
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i8erq5cokolbdlc/img_0001.jpg?dl=0
My first time using dropbox - hope it works.
9 comments:
Nice pics, and sadly, they no longer use the turbochargers. They are irreplaceable, and can't be rebuilt, so the ducting is plugged that goes to them.
Didn't know that.
Thanks for the pix.
Perhaps I'll be there next year after we move out of Kommiefornia!
Everything this year is East of here, at least until October.
Come on, WSF. Tell me at least you climbed into the ball-turret. I do love those old planes, though. Made many of them as models as a kid.
Think the crowd might have rioted when the jaws of life was used to extract me.
Nice pics WSF! Thanks!
Thank you.
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