[ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT

[Meir WF2U]

Carl, 

It is your intolerant, callous comment or rather blathering - to use your verbiage - that shouldn't be part of this forum!
Just take your medication and chill!

Meir WF2U

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On Oct 2, 2019, 9:04 PM, at 9:04 PM, CARL HUETHER <k1uhy at comcast.net> wrote:
>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.
>
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>> On October 2, 2019 at 1:44 PM "arc5 at ix.netcom.com"
><arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> 
>>     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 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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