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Nope, but I went through it last year and took several pictures.
What a loss, such a shame. That was one of the most recent and nicest restored B17s in flying condition.
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What a loss, such a shame. That was one of the most recent and nicest restored B17s in flying condition.
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Which one was it?? I flew in "Aluminum Overcast" a few years ago, not that one I hope. 
Pilot Dan
It was "Liberty Belle" that went down. Saw it in Oshkosh. Fire after take off, pilot made an excellent emergency landing for everyone to walk away.
Here is the link to the story. What a shame.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_876008.html
Pilot DanIt was "Liberty Belle" that went down. Saw it in Oshkosh. Fire after take off, pilot made an excellent emergency landing for everyone to walk away.
Here is the link to the story. What a shame.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_876008.html
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Which one was it?? I flew in "Aluminum Overcast" a few years ago, not that one I hope. Pilot Dan
It was "Liberty Belle" that went down. Saw it in Oshkosh. Fire after take off, pilot made an excellent emergency landing for everyone to walk away.
Here is the link to the story. What a shame.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_876008.html
Pilot DanIt was "Liberty Belle" that went down. Saw it in Oshkosh. Fire after take off, pilot made an excellent emergency landing for everyone to walk away.
Here is the link to the story. What a shame.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_876008.html
damn I think I just saw that here in LI last month...
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What a shame. So much work, labors of love, to go up in smoke, Here's another link......
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/n...,5339638.story
:http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/n...,5339638.story
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Wow, from the looks of it on the video it seems like it hit pretty hard.
Thank god all 7 were able to walk away.
Sad to see the loss of such a beautiful plane.
Thank god all 7 were able to walk away.
Sad to see the loss of such a beautiful plane.
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The plane made a near perfect gear down landing in a muddy corn field, but the engine fire (which couldn't be put out) consumed the plane. The plane was repairable if the fire could have been put out early.
This was last year in Okla City.
Some engine maintenance being done.
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This was last year in Okla City.
Some engine maintenance being done.
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What a shame to see a piece of history like that go up in flames. Glad everyone was okay. Back in the day, we would have had that fire out asap if near our base. (USAF firefighter/crash rescue 66-70)
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Which one was it?? I flew in "Aluminum Overcast" a few years ago, not that one I hope. Pilot Dan
It was "Liberty Belle" that went down. Saw it in Oshkosh. Fire after take off, pilot made an excellent emergency landing for everyone to walk away.
Here is the link to the story. What a shame.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_876008.html
Pilot DanIt was "Liberty Belle" that went down. Saw it in Oshkosh. Fire after take off, pilot made an excellent emergency landing for everyone to walk away.
Here is the link to the story. What a shame.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_876008.html
Gave me the chills when I heard about that today.I thought the same thing until they said it was the Liberty Belle.I also had the pleasure of flying in the Aluminum Overcast at the air show in Oshkosh. I can only imagine the fright the survivors went through!! Sorry, I know its the corvette forum.
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That's just plain sad. Another one gone.
Glad everyone made it out OK.
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Glad everyone made it out OK.
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Don't be, we have lots of WW2 airplane fans amoung the early Corvette ranks. In Corvette terms, loosing this airplane is the equivalent of a frame off rotisserie restored 1953 Corvette melting to the ground, Except about twenty times as rare.
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I wonder if they will begin again and rebuild it? They've rebuilt worse with less to work with before........?
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Very exciting and we had the run of the ship! I took lots of pics while up in the nose and we were even able to stick our heads out of the open hatch right behind the cockpit during flight looking out over the landscape. Very cool! Being right behind the cockpit it was out of the stream and at speed was really not bad!
What a loss, she was a proud machine, an incredible piece of history and a great credit to those who built, rebuilt and maintained it, and eventually saved her last passengers in.
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We are optomistic that we will have ours flying in about 2yrs.
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