B-17 Over San Diego

[nittany03]

(I almost called the Miramar tower ODO to file a noise complaint, just for grins.)

That, good sir, would have been a capital offense.

 

[plc67]

Back in 73/74 I was returning to El Toro in a T-28 and down low I saw a B-17 rigged out as a fire bomber. Kind of a sad sight. Now they are very rare and I don't think I've ever seen a B-29 in flight.

 

[Hozer]

Best $400 I ever spent...1000' in a Fortress.

 

[MasterBates]

Are you wearing jeans Hozer?

 

[Hozer]

yeah, it's a long story, but I wasn't going to freeball it, nor go flying in short sleeves.

 

[Mumbles]

wow....he must be a beartrap guy.......
cool pics. Your likeness to Alex Delarge is uncanny!!! Did the norden work???

 

[Airborne502nd]

I could see me old house from the video. I lived in a house over looking that airport. In fact the my house was right under the landing pattern for Gillespie Field. Does of you that know the area, I lived off Swallow Drive. As a hobby, I do WW II re-enacting and at a public battle we put on at a air show, we had a B-25 doing bombing run on the German's position and a P-51 doing strafing run. The P-51 was passing over our head by only 30 feet above the ground. Also do any of you Tomcat driver that were based at Miramar remember a Tomcat crashing at the end of the runway at Gillespie Field during the 90's. I was only 5 or 6 years old but I remember the black smoke column and see both the Pilot and RIO parachutes deployed. I believe the crew were ok and I remember that Cuyamaca St. had to be close because debris on the road.