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03-15-2017, 12:32am
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Cockpit View of B-17 flight.
Came across this surfing Youtube. Figured all the WWII buffs would enjoy it.
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Cool that they did the cockpit view and you get to hear the them going thru their checklist.
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I flew in EAA's Aluminum Overcast last year, it was cool beyond belief.
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We built ~12k of them, and lost ~5k of them....assume a 3? man crew ....
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 Took the same ride myself about 10 years ago. Worth every penny.   Quote:
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Anything about WWII aviation is interesting.
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Can you imagine hundreds of them taking off to go on a raid in Germany? And the men that flew them into combat?
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And the average age was about 20 when they were flying them....
 A wave of them flying over your city must have been deafening. 
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Especially since they knew the approximate odds of their bird not returning home.
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