bombers over burbank!!!! - Beyond Tiki

S Shipwreckjoey Member San Diego, CA Joined: Nov 29, 2002 Posts: 1794	S Shipwreckjoey Posted posted on Sat, May 21, 2005 2:28 PM Gillespie Field in El Cajon just east of me hosts an air show / exibit (usually put on by the Confederate Airforce out of Arizona). I can hear that B-24 Liberator & B-17 Flying Fortress comin' and I run out to marvel at them flying right over my house. Like Haley's Comet, I realize this ain't somethin' that's gonna happen too many more times in my lifetime...gotta take it in when I get the chance. I took my son for the walk thru tour of the B-17 when he was a kid. I was amazed at how cramped the plane is (I only saw it on the old TV show "12 O'clock High", when it looked like you could swing a dead cat in there and not hit anything). My hat goes off to the poor sonofabitch in the ball turret (he had to have balls of steel).

Gillespie Field in El Cajon just east of me hosts an air show / exibit (usually put on by the Confederate Airforce out of Arizona). I can hear that B-24 Liberator & B-17 Flying Fortress comin' and I run out to marvel at them flying right over my house. Like Haley's Comet, I realize this ain't somethin' that's gonna happen too many more times in my lifetime...gotta take it in when I get the chance. I took my son for the walk thru tour of the B-17 when he was a kid. I was amazed at how cramped the plane is (I only saw it on the old TV show "12 O'clock High", when it looked like you could swing a dead cat in there and not hit anything). My hat goes off to the poor sonofabitch in the ball turret (he had to have balls of steel).

Post #160600 by Shipwreckjoey on Sat, May 21, 2005 2:28 PM