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B-17 Flying Fortress, the Nine-0-Nine
On October
2, 2019, this Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, the 909,
crashed at Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Seven of the thirteen people on board were killed, and the other six, as well as
one person on the ground, were injured. The aircraft was destroyed by fire, with
only a portion of one wing and the tail remaining.
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| Reunion -- On
Friday, May 4th, Mike Caldwell, at right,
took his mother, Eloyce, and father Charlie to a fly-in at the Camarillo,
California airport. It was an
opportunity for his father, at left, to board the
last flying B-24 bomber, "Witchcraft". Charlie was a
co-pilot on the original plane. He flew bombing and resupply missions
out of England with the 467th bomb group.
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on any of the thumbnails to see larger images of the B-24
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original Witchcraft was scrapped at war's end. This one was
painstakingly rebuilt and repainted in the exact likeness of the
original.
"...in tribute to those who
built, flew, and maintained the B-24, and in tribute to all those who
served in World War Two."
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Left, a B-24 cockpit.
Right, "walking through" one of the engines. "Oil tends to
gather in the lower cylinders," Charlie told us.
P-40 Tomahawk at the Wings
over Camarillo Airshow, August 21, 2011
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