OT - Liberty Foundation B-17 Crashes and Burns

[c87]

Another B-17 was lost this morning. Thankfully no one was injured. I love to see and hear these old warbirds fly but part of me hopes that we end up preserving a few specimens for non-flying too before they go extinct.

Here's a couple of news links on the story.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8187278

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-crews-responding-to-incident-involving-wwii-bomber-20110613,0,5852034.story

[Motormouse]

Oh how sad.

I remember this one being restored at Tom Reilly's place at
Kissimmee (next door to Warbird Adventures); they made one from two; and fine craftsmanship it was too.

Glad everyone walked away OK

ttfn

Pete

[skyhawka4m]

sad.....a great plane she was....


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[Paul K]

Liberty Belle was known here in the UK, as she flew over to take part in Duxford's Flying Legends air show in 2008.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m115/Geomitrak/LibertyBelle.jpg

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m115/Geomitrak/LibertyBelle2.jpg

A sad loss to the warbird scene, but thank goodness nobody was hurt.

[AndyE1976]

That's really sad, sounds like there were mechanical problems over the weekend and they weren't resolved fully before the flight.