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Thread: WW2 vets fly in B-29 once again.

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    WW2 vets fly in B-29 once again.

    "As the bomber named Fifi took off in Baton Rouge, the 90-year-old Pompton Plains, New Jersey, native peered out of the glass-covered nose where the bombardier sat during missions. He moved the bombsight from side to side."

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...10-24-05-29-49

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    That's pretty awesome. Some guys I know who are friends with some B17 owners say the B17 guys fly any ww2 vet for free if they want to fly in it at a show. Otherwise it's like $500 or so to make a short flight.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    Boeing is supposed to..

    test fly the B29 they are restoring in Wichita sometime this fall. It will be great to see two of those airplanes in the air......

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