I'm taking my grandson Harley for a tour this morning.He loves aviation and will go crazy over this.https://www.airpowersquadron.org/
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FIFI is in town
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Not cheap but not going to be forgotten.
Iceman
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My grandfather spent most of WWII as a tailgunner and sometimes the belly gun on a B52. He definitely never forgot it.
Took me to a couple airshows in the US where he walked me through a bomber like his. Told me stories and was visibly moved, his memories haunting his face as we moved through the plane. I was in my teens and I still remember it like yesterday.
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Took me to a couple airshows in the US where he walked me through a bomber like his. Told me stories and was visibly moved, his memories haunting his face as we moved through the plane. I was in my teens and I still remember it like yesterday.
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Great day.Harley had a blast.
Cute kid, you can tell he is having a great time.
His shirt matches your Ossa, when do the riding lessons start? How early do kids start riding trials?
Awesome. Checked out FiFi at Oshkosh quite a few years back, pretty cool piece of history. It flew out over our house a few weeks back when it was headed for Lindsay.
Why do you say 65? Some of the raids were in the hundreds.Must have been terrifying for those on the ground. The part that amazed me about the B29 was the gunners "computerized" sighting system.Semi conductors had not been invented and it was done with vacuum tube technology.https://www.popularmechanics.com/mi...r-were-a-mid-century-engineering-masterpiece/ All the gunner had to do was keep the target in the crosshairs and pull the trigger.Air speed,altitude,temperature etc etc all taken care of by the device.
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