[ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT

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No, sir.  I got to the Site in 1982; never saw it out there.  Does anyone know if any of the aircraft is salvageable besides the tail and that one wing tip?Any World War II aircraft which is regularly flown will unquestionably end up as a pile of scrap and ashes. It's just a matter of when.  I don't like it either, but that's a fact. If we want to watch them fly, we must accept that sooner or later, our desires will end with a pile of bloody wreckage.  Of course, all things end; unless The Almighty calls the game, the fate of the entire universe is Dust & Ashes. But some things- we can decide that fate be later, rather than sooner.On the other hand, within a couple of more generations, about as many people will care about a B-17 bomber as care about Egyptian chariots today.  Maybe it's better for the people who admire and appreciate them to experience them now, before that long long oblivion.------ It's being reported as the "nine-O-nine.  Very sad, probably full of fuel at the time...That A/C survived numerous nuclear airburst test at the Nevada Test Site before being surplussed, flown out and restored... (Dave - did you ever see it parked at the north end of the Yucca Lake airstrip?)
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