Cruising America's Great Loop and other inland routes
View all threadsYes I know it's not a boat .. but we had a B-17 Bomber from World War 2
land nearby this summer. Here are some photos I took that day:
http://www.tug44.org/stuff/b-17-bomber/
I know some of you are pilots and will enjoy this.
Fred
Tug 44
Good grief, Fred, you allowed the world a perfect view of the SUPER SECRET
Norden bombsight! Where's your common sense?
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Yes I know it's not a boat .. but we had a B-17 Bomber from World War 2
land
nearby this summer. Here are some photos I took that day:
http://www.tug44.org/stuff/b-17-bomber/
I know some of you are pilots and will enjoy this.
Fred
Tug 44
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I have to snicker a bit about the 8,000 pound bomb load. The B-52Fs in which I was crew in 1965 carried 27 1,000 pound bombs in the bomb bay and 12 750 pounders on each wing!
** D C "Mac" Macdonald **
From: fred@tug44.org
To: great-loop@lists.trawlering.com
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:53:14 -0700
Subject: GL: B-17 aircraft
Yes I know it's not a boat .. but we had a B-17 Bomber from World War 2
land nearby this summer. Here are some photos I took that day:
http://www.tug44.org/stuff/b-17-bomber/
I know some of you are pilots and will enjoy this.
Fred
Tug 44
Sorry Rich, but that wasn't a security breach at all. The entire specs and
design of the Norden were given away by Hogans Heros in this episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oIlWkLaPQM
You can watch the entire episode or jump to minute 22:30 and see just the
Norden thing.
Fred
Tug 44
From: "Rich Gano" richgano@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:25 PM
To: fred@tug44.org
Cc: "Great Loop List" great-loop@lists.trawlering.com
Subject: RE: B-17 aircraft
Good grief, Fred, you allowed the world a perfect view of the SUPER SECRET
Norden bombsight! Where's your common sense?
Thanks Fred, sometimes it doesn't have to be all about the boat. Cropdusted using the engine of one for years (Bull Thrush), and had lunch with a ball turret gunner (now 90) just a couple days ago.
Matt
Final Voyage Of The Mischief: http://youtu.be/PLre_kjIJ8Q
WWII pilots I trained under: http://youtu.be/6EBw_4Jhi0w
On Oct 22, 2014, at 8:53 PM, fred@tug44.org wrote:
Yes I know it's not a boat .. but we had a B-17 Bomber from World War 2
land nearby this summer. Here are some photos I took that day:
http://www.tug44.org/stuff/b-17-bomber/
I know some of you are pilots and will enjoy this.
Fred
Tug 44
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