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10-15-2008, 09:00 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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 | Interesting Story A Half-Century-Old Lesson: Fly the Airplane! I was looking up Rudder Pedals and this came up and I read it I thought it was vert interesting |
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10-15-2008, 10:07 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Redding, California
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| WOW...incredible story! Thanks for posting the link!
__________________  "Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future." - Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome > I Support Doug Gillis < |
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10-15-2008, 10:08 PM
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| Incredible account, B17. Thanks for posting it. It's a pity that some of the low-lifes of todays society can't read accounts like that, maybe they'd realise, as we on this forum realise, what that generation had to go through to ensure our freedom. |
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10-15-2008, 10:14 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2005
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| Looping a B-17 is no small feat that's for sure.
__________________  It was like being pushed by an Angel! - Adolf Galland I'm an educated engineer, so I love being technical and appraising of great inventions. So if you think I am being biased about something: Tell me! Then you'll probably find out that I am not  |
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10-15-2008, 11:00 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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__________________  "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" http://www.njcacoa.org/ | |
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10-15-2008, 11:04 PM
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| A great generation for sure, but the greatest ? I'm not sure about that.
__________________ It was like being pushed by an Angel! - Adolf Galland I'm an educated engineer, so I love being technical and appraising of great inventions. So if you think I am being biased about something: Tell me! Then you'll probably find out that I am not |
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10-16-2008, 07:14 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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| Thanks as soon as I saw the part where they went into the loop my jaw dropped. |
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10-16-2008, 07:55 AM
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| Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: East Dorset, South of England not Vermont.
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| Makes you think......... Thanks for the link, it looks like an interesting site. |
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10-16-2008, 10:15 AM
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10-16-2008, 04:29 PM
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__________________ It was like being pushed by an Angel! - Adolf Galland I'm an educated engineer, so I love being technical and appraising of great inventions. So if you think I am being biased about something: Tell me! Then you'll probably find out that I am not | |
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10-17-2008, 05:43 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Gainesville, Florida
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| Great mission report. Pulling a B17 out from 400 mph indicated was stupefying! Thanks for the report. For more reports and pictures, click on B-17 B-24 Pictures Information 8th Air Force Flying Fortress Liberator Ploesti Schweinfurt Merseberg Berlin missions
__________________ 35 missions on B-17 from 9Sept44 (Ludwigshafen) to 3Feb45 (Berlin) http://www.b17sam.com |
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10-17-2008, 06:36 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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| Hey, Thanks a lot for that link! |
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10-17-2008, 07:11 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA.
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| Great post B-17.Thanks!  |
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10-17-2008, 07:31 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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|  No problem |
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