Boeing B-17 Start Up And Take Off

Created on June 17, 2010-Sentimental Journey,the 1944 Boeing B-17G flying fortress start up and take off outside Lexington Tn.... Sentimental Journey rolled off the Douglas assembly line in late 1944, and was accepted by the Army Air Corp on March 13, 1945. Manufactured too late to see service in the European war, the aircraft was assigned to the Pacific theater for the duration of the war. In 1947, the aircraft was removed from storage in Japan and assigned to Clark Field in Manila as a photo-mapping plane. For nearly three years she served in that capacity, flying to all corners of the Pacific in the configuration of a RB-17G.

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[FlierFrank172]

I'm an American and I love the B-17 too..but in all fairness, the Brits had a better bomber, the Lancaster....it had plenty of endurance and it carried over twice the bombload of the '17...but the B-17 certainly did its share and the USA built many more of them than the Brits built of the Lanc......I'd still rather ride the '17.

[chooch1995]

Hey mika3607: You are an idiot. You OBVIOUSLY don't know a thing about history. These old warbirds didn't 'make death' as you say, they did the opposite. Every bomb dropped on Hitler's army brought us that closer to the end of the war, thereby saving countless Allied lives. Adolf Hitler was pure evil. 6 MILLION innocent Jewish men, women & children perished at his hands. He had to be stopped. Asking politely wasn't going to do the trick. He needed hellfire delivered & the B-17 brought it!

[mikak3607]

perfect, untouched, clean and sparkling silver. no one ever died on this plane, i believe that if the plane made death there will always be some kind of curse on it, it has been proven, some b-17's that battled in the WWII and survived are planes that break down or crash and burn, it may not happen always, but it happened.