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"Liberty Belle" B-17G Has Just Flown The Atlantic.

Ferrypilot From New Zealand, joined Sep 2006, 897 posts, RR: 3
Posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2867 times:

B-17G Flying Fortress known as…"Liberty Belle" and registered N390TH

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Has flown from Bangor(KBGR)USA to Goose Bay (CYYR)Canada on the 30th June.

Goose Bay to Narsarsuaq(BGBW) in Greenland and then on to Reykjavik(BIRK) in Iceland on the 1st July

Reykjavik to Prestwick,Scotland on 2nd July.

Probably on her way to the "Flying Legends Air Show" at Duxford in England.

...Even with four engines and GPS, that is still an intrepid and very exciting mission in our day and age!

[Edited 2008-07-02 16:28:36]

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SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71
Reply 1, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 2849 times:

Damn! I'd have bought a ticket to stand alongside the fjord at Narsarsuaq just to feel the years roll back for a moment.

Quoting Ferrypilot (Thread starter):
that is still an intrepid and very exciting mission in our day and age!

You're darn right it is. Just to get all four of those old radials running well enough at the same time. Taking on the north Atlantic in a sixty-something year old airplane. I salute the crew, air and ground and the financial benefactors as well.

Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.

2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62
Reply 2, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 2798 times:

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Quoting SlamClick (Reply 1):
Damn! I'd have bought a ticket to stand alongside the fjord at Narsarsuaq just to feel the years roll back for a moment.

I'm sure some old-timers on that side of the pond found themselves in a moment or three of reflection as she flew over...

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Oly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 6193 posts, RR: 11
Reply 3, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 2685 times:

Going from PIK to Islay today then on to Duxford tomorrow.

http://www.hial.co.uk/default.aspx.locid-014new1bm.Lang-EN.htm

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Ferrypilot From New Zealand, joined Sep 2006, 897 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2561 times:

Quoting SlamClick (Reply 1):
Damn! I'd have bought a ticket to stand alongside the fjord at Narsarsuaq just to feel the years roll back for a moment.

...Yes I sure would like to have seen her landing and take-off at Narsarsuaq. ...That runway falls 101 feet between each threshold. I imagine the crew would most likely have landed uphill and made their take-off downhill. And to have seen that B17 barrelling down that hill at full power towards the fjord would certainly have been impressive. I am pretty sure it would have looked quite exciting from the cockpit as well.

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Photo of notorious Narsarsuaq, ...Known during World War 2 as "Bluie West One"

DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11433 posts, RR: 81
Reply 5, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 2338 times:

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I was just down in Douglas, GA, where she's got her maintenance base, and the spare parts and fabricated fuselage pieces laying around the hangar (also filled with a P-40 and other warbirds in various states of repair just made my entire day...especially the B-25 they were working on.

Well done to the crew and maintainers of the Liberty Belle, and to the people who pay to keep her flying.

Is my Pan Am ticket to the moon still good?

Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8298 posts, RR: 11
Reply 6, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 2296 times:

Quoting SlamClick (Reply 1):
You're darn right it is. Just to get all four of those old radials running well enough at the same time. Taking on the north Atlantic in a sixty-something year old airplane. I salute the crew, air and ground and the financial benefactors as well.

SAA did something similar when they took a DC-4 to Oshkosh in 1994. Must have been quite an adventure flying up through Africa then across the pond.

After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says WTF...

Unattendedbag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2240 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 2222 times:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N390TH

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