| On Sunday, May 30, 2004, my wife Andrea surprised
me with a ride on a B-24 Liberator, a WW II bomber. The B-24 and the
B-17 were both on display at the Livermore Airport in Livermore, CA,
for the Memorial Day weekend. Being a military airplane
buff for years, it was one of the nicest surprises I've had in a long while.
It also made me think of those brave airmen that gave their all for
our freedom! It was an amazing feeling being up there flying over the
Livermore Valley and on up to Suisun Bay where the mothballed fleet
resides. For more information about
these planes and their schedules, you can visit
The
Collings Foundation.
A note from Bob Lang, a co-worker of mine.
Ed Myers says:
Hey Bob, check this out:
http://www.myers-clan.com/B24/
Robert Lang says:
Great Pictures of a real bomber. You might be interested
to know that the B-24s were principally manufactured by Convair (now
General Dynamics, and out of airplane manufacture business) in
San Diego prior to the US joining World War II. They also built
several hundred of an almost identical plane for the British and
identified it as the "LB30" before the entry of the US.
I was in San Diego during that time as a
Navy Engineer on the PBY and XPBY3 Flying Boat, so I saw lots of them. |
