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Thread #166727 Message #4012245
Posted By: Joe Offer
06-Oct-19 - 04:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: crash of a B-17, with fatalities
Subject: RE: BS: crash of a B-17, with fatalities
My stepson is working at an airshow this weekend. I think he's been flying down and back at least two of the three days. The planes he flies every day are Cessnas, mostly built in the 1970s. He rarely flies a plane built after he was born in 1989. He did have an engine quit on him Thursday night, but he sputtered in to a landing and got a ride home in a car. He got home at 1:30 AM and was back at the airport at 7 the next morning.
B-17s were extremely reliable and sturdy aircraft, and they were used for civilian purposes for decades after World War II. Same with DC-3s, which are still in civilian use. But others like the B-24 ended up in the scrap heap because they never were very airworthy.
-Joe-