Great experiences you've had with the B17s - Thank God for museums! So much
would be lost without them.
Perhaps you know - weren't a large number of WW2 aircraft destroyed or sold
for scrap in Europe following the war because is would have been too
expensive to ship them back? Seems like I heard/read that somewhere.
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] B-17
<<Yeah, the Confederate Air Force has what I believe to be the last
operating one.......>>
Au contraire. I had the opportunity to walk through a meticulously
restored
B-17F in the private McCaw hangar at Renton Airport a few years ago.
From the Museum of Flight's website:
"The Museum's carefully restored aircraft is the only flyable B-17 F-model
left in the world. During World War II, it served as a stateside crew
trainer.
After the war, the plane was used as a chemical sprayer and fire bomber.
The
Museum's Fortress also appeared in movies, including The Thousand Plane
Raid
(1968), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1969), and Memphis Belle (1989) during its
flying
career. The plane is currently hangared at Renton Municipal Airport in
Renton,
Washington and is undergoing routine maintenance and inspection."
RLE
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