[Milsurplus] Bomber Crew Fantasy Camp

[Mike Bracey]

I think that Fantasy Camp is an unfortunate name for the experience. I am a private pilot. You can never explain flight to anyone, they have to experience it. I have a lot of friends whose fathers were in the air force in WWII. They have told me before that they wonder what their fathers faced. What it was like to be in that plane? I think that the warbird flight can give them a little taste of what it was like for dad in those planes. A friend's father was a B-17 pilot in Europe. He passed away when she was ten. He left her a shoebox of photos from the war. Five years ago she got her ride in a B-17. She said that it answered a lot of questions about her fathers "war life" and provided some closure. For me, its the old planes, the history and those deep breathing radials.
Mike Bracey 
     On Friday, September 18, 2015 3:55 PM, Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
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>  If you've not already seen this article, you might want to go to http://www.twinbeech.com/ and select the topic that’s in the subject field above.  This is one of the damn wildest things I have ever seen ( adjectives fail me ) and the photography is wonderful.
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> The only reservations I had was when I saw the lineup of recruits. Kind of reminded me of the Volksturm, when the Reich was scraping the barrel and arming even older retirees. Alas, I have to judge myself in that same demographic.
> -Hue Miller


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