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Old 03-08-2015, 01:32 PM
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Default Drinking under the big wing

Yesterday on our way back from a long cross country we stopped by Palatka, Florida for the cheap fuel ($3.15). A B-25 landed a while before us and was being towed to the pump. I expected to wait for a long time behind it. I was surprised to see the crew from the B-24 waved us to move forward. I taxied right under its horizontal stabilizer. After thanking them and with the help of a lineman we pulled my RV a little more forward and fueled it. You just don't take fuel like this everyday.







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Old 03-08-2015, 01:40 PM
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B-24 is a high wing with 4 engines. That looks like a Mitchell, or B-25. Still an awesome sight on the ramp.

Did they let you fly fighter escort when they left? I'd have told them my N-number stood for "Little Friend" and that would get me in the slot for sure

-Stormy, whose Dad crewed a B-24 until the Luftwaffe brought it down and kept him as a guest of the Third Reich.
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Old 03-08-2015, 01:57 PM
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Panchito used to be in an association with a warbird restoration outfit in Central Florida. You could take a week long hands on class in warbird restoration on whatever they had in the shop, T-6's, Stearmans', whatever. At the end of the week, you got about a 2 hour hop in the jump seat of Panchito. Not a bad deal.
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Old 03-08-2015, 02:12 PM
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B-24 is a high wing with 4 engines. That looks like a Mitchell, or B-25. Still an awesome sight on the ramp.

Did they let you fly fighter escort when they left? I'd have told them my N-number stood for "Little Friend" and that would get me in the slot for sure

-Stormy, whose Dad crewed a B-24 until the Luftwaffe brought it down and kept him as a guest of the Third Reich.
Thank you for the correction. I have no idea how long they were staying. By the time I taxied away they have not started fueling yet. It would be cool to fly escort
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Old 03-08-2015, 02:45 PM
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Not the kind of drinking I was expecting but, envious just the same!
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Old 03-08-2015, 02:55 PM
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Wow Ted is all I can say. Wow!
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Old 03-08-2015, 03:29 PM
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This is awesome! You surely have fun there in Florida.
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Old 03-09-2015, 06:49 AM
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There was an article in the Venice paper recently with Dick Cole who was Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot. He is 97 or so, still actively getting out and about. There were 80 crew who took off for the B-25 attack on Tokyo. Only 3 or 4 are still with us.

Certainly a "great generation".
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Old 03-09-2015, 07:20 AM
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Hey...I've got a picture like that taken I'm Dumas TX. We were racing daylight going to Llano or may have waited for them, for fighter duty photos. It was funny, we were taking their pics and the crew was taking ours.
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Old 03-09-2015, 08:20 AM
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. . . . It was funny, we were taking their pics and the crew was taking ours.
And that is the way it should be - everybody wins!

I better get back to work now.
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