A B24 Flight

The The Collings Foundation brought their B24 and B17 tour to Moffett Field (Sunnyvale, California) in June 2002. This is reported to be the only B24 still flying. Photos were taken from the tarmac and from inside the B24 in flight.

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B24 photo (1) B24 photo (2) B24 photo (3)
Taxiing Nose art detail Boarding through
the bomb bay doors

B24 photo (4) B24 photo (5) B24 photo (6)
Machine gun ports from outside and inside

B24 photo (7) B24 photo (8) B24 photo (9-10)
Takeoff Over the field Cockpit in action

B24 photo (11) B24 photo (12) B24 photo (13)
Looking through drift
hole near the tail turret
View to the tail turret Ammunition cabinet

Views from the machine gun ports
B24 photo (14) B24 photo (14) B24 photo (15) B24 photo (16)
Moffet Field and San Francisco Bay Moffett hangar one Silicon Valley
looking west
* James Althoff, dedicated crew pilot, behind flight deck
* Jim McIlvain, in B24 "up front"

The Collings Foundation B17 - "nine-o-nine"
B17 photo (1) B17 photo (2) B17 photo (3)

Copyright © 2002 Bob Shomler.
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