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Mark_Aspen
07-19-2004, 01:59 PM
OK. So the shots aren't so good. Its an instamatic camera. We were driving from Chicago to St. Louis, Missouri in the US Mid-West. If you've never been there, its very flat. As we were going through Champaign, Illinois, we saw it, stopped the car and heard it. It was awsome to see. My wife's brother explained what it was, a B-24 Liberator. We then went to the Champaign Airport to see it. Someone told us that a B-29 had been there earlier in the week. There was also a P-40 and something else, but people said it was trainer and not a fighter. Rides in the B-24 were $400.00 a piece.

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/40fb1f11_6f3a/bc/7ff2/__sr_/371c.jpg?ph4_A_ABEAZw6ASK

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/40fb1f11_6f3a/bc/7ff2/__sr_/c5b9.jpg?ph3_A_ABsvCKhhyF

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/40fb1f11_6f3a/bc/7ff2/__sr_/9080.jpg?ph3_A_ABXMSkMq_l
joepar
07-19-2004, 03:44 PM
OK. So the shots aren't so good. Its an instamatic camera. We were driving from Chicago to St. Louis, Missouri in the US Mid-West. If you've never been there, its very flat. As we were going through Champaign, Illinois, we saw it, stopped the car and heard it. It was awsome to see. My wife's brother explained what it was, a B-24 Liberator. We then went to the Champaign Airport to see it. Someone told us that a B-29 had been there earlier in the week. There was also a P-40 and something else, but people said it was trainer and not a fighter. Rides in the B-24 were $400.00 a piece.

They were here in Seattle at the museum of flight a few weeks ago :) we got a recent WW1-WW2 exhibit put in at the museum and I happened out there to take a look on the last day that the bombers were in town, you could pay $400 to ride or like $8 to walk through the pair of 'em.
Mark_Aspen
07-19-2004, 04:03 PM
It was really my first time in the US away from the cities. Even if I knew better, the US has always been NY and Chicago or Boston. Even when I've been to Atlanta, it was never in the country.

This was exciting becase it wasn't expected. What impressed me was the noise it made, and the sheer size of it; maybe because its a straight wing and not a swept-back jet wing. In Israel the biggest propeller planes I've seen were the Dakotas and Hercules, but the C-130 is modern, its "ours" so to speak. How different is a turbo-prop from a non- turbo?