John Francis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:35:07AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: >> Adam Maas wrote: >> >>> There's only 2 flying Lanc's, 1 in the UK and one here in Canada, based >>> out of Hamilton, about an hour west of Toronto. A beautiful bird, but >>> small by todays standards. >> Yeah, I think there's only one Flying Fortress (B-17) left flying, in >> the Confederate Air Force of all places. IIRC, their B-24 crashed a >> couple of years ago and was a total loss. > > I don't believe you're right. The Collings Foundation have a B-17, > B-24 and B-25 in their "Wings of Freedom" flight, and they claim there > are currently fourteen B-17s in flyable condition in the USA. The B-24, > though, is apparently the only one flying. >
yeah, there's a number of B-17's in flying condition. The B-24's, Lanc's and B-29's are rare though. B-17's were rather popular as firebombers in the 60's and 70's, which kept a number of them in commercial service long past the demise of the other Heavies. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
