Who out there has taken a ride in which B-17?

[p51]

-Memphis Belle, a few months after the movie came out
-909 on three occasions (is formation with the B-24 twice)
-Taxxied in Aluminum Overcast

The great part is I never had to pay a penny for any of these!

[Pathfinder]

SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY--August 17, 1996 Geneseo, NY.

The only thing better than having my friend photographer Dan Patterson sitting behind me at the nav table with his finger on the trigger of his camera when our wingman--TEXAS RAIDERS--decided to break high left.....



...was to have another friend in the right waist of RAIDERS snap a shot after they had moved over to our left wing...!



I was not hunkered over the Norden on a bomb run...I was actually shooting video of RAIDERS out the side window...the audio goes something like this:

"Hey, where the he*l did they go.....? (sound of four engines becomes eight!)

"...HO------LY SSSSSSSH*T......!!!!!!"

[ZRX61]

A few as a "face in a window" during MB filming at Dx.

[Firebird]

Nine-O-Nine out of Moffat Field in 2007

[mike furline]

I did a mission in the faux Nine-O-Nine, while my neighbor did 18 missions in the real Nine-O-Nine as a navigator.

[Wildchild]

Liberty Belle in November 2010.

When i was taking some pictures around the plane, i got a shot of the tail gun, an inside the glass is a blue skeleton head Still dont know how that ever got there...

[Bomberboy]

I have been fortunate enough to fly in 5 B-17's, but I cannot guess how many flights I have done in them......I dunno 200+

[Mike]

-Memphis Belle, a few months after the movie came out

In 1944?

[17f]

Aluminum Overcast, 2000. I passed on the earplugs, and my ears rang for a day. Still awesome!

[krlang]

Somehow, in 25 years of being around these things, I have never flown in a B-17.
I sat up front while they repositioned Tallichet's airplane at Elmira years ago. Thats all.

I jacked it once, so I made it leave the ground once, but not while I was in it.

[michaelharadon]

About 35 years ago, I sat in the left seat of one of the B-17 fire bombers out at Globe Air in Mesa, Az. I was struck by how little thumb pressure it took to oil can the fuselage (yeah, right, "Flying Fortress") and also how the driver of a VW Bug seemed to have more outward visibility than the pilot of a B-17. I still don't get how there was enough room in the cockpit for both pilots AND all four of their stones...

[jmkendall]

1977 Santa Rosa Ca after the Mt Diablo fire. And again in the early 80s when my PIC traded a flight in our Huey for a flight on a firebomber B-17, again in Santa Rosa Ca. I wish I had written down the N numbers.

[fritzthefox]

I flew on Yankee Lady. I could've sat in the nose all day...what a view!

[Jeff Nelson]

Perks of the job. If I wire it, I fly (in) it. Gotten rides in SJ and Miss Angela, numerous Mustangs, T-6s, Stearmans, T-28s, etc. Still need my ride in Maid in the Shade and am working on the CAFs PBJ in Camarillo.

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[Ztex]

Chuckie and Aluminum Overcast...Taxied around in Texas Raiders years ago in Harlingen.