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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
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Subject: Re: Where to see operational B-17's(was Re: Memphis Belle)
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:36:02 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
*>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.

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*>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 


They reviewed last year's Geneseo air show 
in Flying Models magazine. Among the airplanes
present was an Avro Lancaster that came down
from Canada (if I recall correctly). One of 
the pictures was of the Lancaster and a B-17
flying together. Must have been a sight. I ex-
pect the four Merlins on the Lancaster sound 
very different from the radials on the B-17s.


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