I envy you guys. I'd love to see one those old bombers take off. Or, better
yet, to ride in one. My grandfather was a gunner in a B-24, and I've always
wanted to take a ride in one. I know there's one that goes around the states
and you can get a ride, but it's $400 a pop. Maybe one of these days I'll be
able to fork out the money on it. That's if I don't have to fork out that
$400 on the van first....

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:

>  RE: The sound of a B-17
> A few years ago was the 50th anniversary of the B-17, big events here in
> Seattle at the Museum of Flight.  So I took the family there.  We did the
> tour of the B-17 and were about to leave when they announced the the B-17
> and other WWII warbirds were all going to fire up and take off so I
> insisted
> we stay a little longer.  And the B-17, the B-25, a P-51 Mustang, a Corsair
> and IIRC at least one other aircraft fired up, took off, and made a low
> pass
> along the length of Boeing Field.  I told the boys and my wife to pay
> attention, theat they would probably never see or hear any such thing again
> in their lifetime.  An era gone but for some of us not forgotten.  Although
> very young during WWII I was growing up about five miles as the crow flies,
> on the side of a hill overlooking Boeing Field.  Those birds were in out
> sky
> all the time, you can't forget what they sounded like.
>