My Flight In a B-17G
Aluminum Overcast
On a cold, blustery and rainy October day in a place called Waukegan Airport
we waited patiently for the ceiling to lift above 1500 ft with a 5 mile visibility.
Finally after a 3 1/2 hour wait we began to climb aboard the Aluminum Overcast
for our journey into the past. The crew was in place as the engines one by one
coughed, belched and cranked slowly till a big puff of smoke exited the
exhaust. We could feel the vibrations of the engines reaching readiness for taxiing
to the end of the runway. A final check of all systems and the running up of the
engines to full RPM we were on our way down the runway. Upon lift off the
Flight Engineer motioned to us that we could get up and roam thru the plane.
Here our a few of the pictures of my experience.
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