[ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT

[CARL HUETHER]

Those are some very disgusting statements and plus blatantly religious blathering should not be part of this forum.

On a lighter side I was a paying passenger on that plane shortly after it was restored and started its touring. Ive also been to the Collings Foundation museum a few times and to local airshows to watch several of their planes. I have always been impressed by all the staff and volunteers professionalism and quality of their work.



> On October 2, 2019 at 1:44 PM "arc5 at ix.netcom.com" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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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.
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>     On the other hand, within a couple of more generations, about as many people will care about a B-17 bomber as care about Egyptia n chariots today.  Maybe it's better for the people who admire and appreciate them to experience them now, before that long long oblivion.
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>     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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