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Cool video of B17 flying out of Renton, Wa over the Cascades
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<blockquote data-quote="Panman" data-source="post: 1394375" data-attributes="member: 8914"><p>I've only been inside one, pretty humbling to think of what those men went thru!</p><p></p><p>Being a old retired Boeing guy I have been part of a few cool things. As a tool maker I got involved with helping on a few little things on the 247D that after restoration on a test flight they ditched in Elliot Bay.</p><p></p><p>One time My wife and young at the time son were down at the Museum of flight down in the big Shity and the B-17 Memphis Belle was sitting out in the lot before they started the restoration. A couple of dudes came out and fired her up! At first they just idled the engines and they and then they slightly ran up all four, they then got them all idling and the ran up the two outboard motors full clock and slow those down and ran the two Inbrd's up, it was awesome as the old hart was a pounding.</p><p></p><p>A few years later up north where we live is the Arlington airport (an old military airport) and they were having some kind of event and had both a B-17 and a B-29 there and we just happened to be driving by and noticed the planes and I cranked the wheel to go see. Just so happened they were giving those big money rides, we were right next to them when they started walking the motors thru to fire them So we stayed and watched the whole deal, start-up, taxi and take-off. What a deal, when they taxied by and turned out to the taxi-way the sand-blasting you got was just to cool, even my Missy didn't complain to much. Watching them lumber into the air was also cool, they took a lot of the runway and were not even carrying a load!</p><p></p><p>Still blows me away how a radial engine works or even stays together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panman, post: 1394375, member: 8914"] I've only been inside one, pretty humbling to think of what those men went thru! Being a old retired Boeing guy I have been part of a few cool things. As a tool maker I got involved with helping on a few little things on the 247D that after restoration on a test flight they ditched in Elliot Bay. One time My wife and young at the time son were down at the Museum of flight down in the big Shity and the B-17 Memphis Belle was sitting out in the lot before they started the restoration. A couple of dudes came out and fired her up! At first they just idled the engines and they and then they slightly ran up all four, they then got them all idling and the ran up the two outboard motors full clock and slow those down and ran the two Inbrd's up, it was awesome as the old hart was a pounding. A few years later up north where we live is the Arlington airport (an old military airport) and they were having some kind of event and had both a B-17 and a B-29 there and we just happened to be driving by and noticed the planes and I cranked the wheel to go see. Just so happened they were giving those big money rides, we were right next to them when they started walking the motors thru to fire them So we stayed and watched the whole deal, start-up, taxi and take-off. What a deal, when they taxied by and turned out to the taxi-way the sand-blasting you got was just to cool, even my Missy didn't complain to much. Watching them lumber into the air was also cool, they took a lot of the runway and were not even carrying a load! Still blows me away how a radial engine works or even stays together. [/QUOTE]
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