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Old January 6th 08, 02:48 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]
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Default B-17 ride in Galveston

Rich Ahrens wrote in
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Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:
I was on a tour of a museum at Flying Cloud MN (Ain't there any more)
- there was a bunch of people following the guide, so at one point
they turned right, I nudged my brother and we (and the kids) turned
left...

They had a B-17 with a bunch of guys in it that had flown during
WW-II and since we had disconnected from the group we had time to sit
and chat with them while they waited for the next tour group to march
through.


I did my primary training next to that museum. It was intimidating to
be a student pilot doing touch and gos in front of their grandstand on
show weekends with all the old-timers hanging out watching.


All the old timers had been there!



Bertie