Okay, nothing to do with Green Science:-) but you dont see many of these doing a fly over every day. This is a vintage WW2 bomber that has been buzzing our neighborhood for a few days. I thought about adding it to the blooper reels but it is really cool and stands alone. The shaky part was me busting my a@# over a folding chair and table. INFO FROM THE WEBSITE www.libertyfoundation.org On September 9, 1944 the 390th Bomb Group attacked a target in Dusseldorf, Germany and suffered its second largest single mission loss of the war. Over the target just prior to bomb release, one of the low squadron B-17s was hit in the Bomb bay by flak. The 1000 lb. bombs exploded and nine of the twelve aircraft in the squadron were instantly destroyed or knocked out of formation. Six of the nine went down over the target, one flew two hours on a single engine and landed at Paris, another "crippled plane" landed in Belgium and the other struggled back to its home base and landed long after the other thirty nine B-17s had returned from the mission. The one that came home was "Liberty Belle", she went on to complete 64 combat missions before being salvaged on February 18, 1945. The Liberty Foundations B-17G (SN 44-85734) has an interesting post-war history. Originally sold on June 25, 1947 as scrap to Esperado Mining Co. of Altus, OK, it sold again later that year to Pratt & Whitney for $2700. Pratt & Whitney operated the B-17 from November 19, 1947 to 1967 as a heavily modified test bed for <b>...</b>
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