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From: dennett@cyclone.kodak.com (Charlie Dennett)
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Subject: Where to see operational B-17's(was Re: Memphis Belle)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 05:09:16 GMT
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From: dennett@cyclone.kodak.com (Charlie Dennett)
Glad to hear _Memphis Belle_ look like a good movie.  Maybe a review
of the movie, at least from a sci.military point of view might be
in order.  What say, Mr. Moderator?

[mod.note:  Suits me. - Bill ]

Actually, mention of the Memphis Belle jogged my memory. I went to
the Wings of Eagles Air Show this past summer at the National Warplane
Museum in Geneseo NY.  (Just outside Rochester.)  This was my first
trip to any such event.  I was impressed.  (As was my 8 year old son.
Never will forget that smile on his face as stuck his head out of the
side bubble of the PBY-6 Catalina.)  The museum puts on an air show of
old war planes with fly-bys of more modern planes - this year they
had a B-52, a couple of F-16's on Saturday.  I think an A-10 showed
up on Sunday.  Unfortunately, all the cargo transports could not be
there as they were busy with the Iraq/Kuwait crisis.  The museum has
its own B-17G, the Fuddy Duddy, named after the original that flew
96 missions without an abort.  There was also another B-17 there that I
believe was used in the movie.  It might even have been the one that 
played the Belle.  

Anyway, the event is held the second or third weekend in August.  If 
you're in the area plan on stopping by.  We are planning on getting a 
gang of people and their kids from the neighborhood together for next year.
There were over 200 planes there this past year and I'm told it gets
bigger every year.  It's been going on for 10 years now.