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LMFAO Joe..... That was great....Very cool and welcome to the site - my question...
How far forward was the pilots seat from the top turret?!?!
syscom3 said:Jhor, Im curious about the training that the pilots had.
Can you give us some idea's on the actual number of hours you and your colleagues actually flew during training. Was it more or less than the official required hours?
How did you get selected to fly B17's?
Thanks!
syscom3 said:Jhor, Im curious about the training that the pilots had.
Can you give us some idea's on the actual number of hours you and your colleagues actually flew during training. Was it more or less than the official required hours?
How did you get selected to fly B17's?
Thanks!
syscom3 said:Thanks JHOR. At what point were you selected for bomber training and how did you end up in B17's. Was a whole class assigned the same type of aircraft to fly, or did you get split up for some to fly A20's, some for B24's, some for B17's, etc.
One other question. The student pilots who washed out, did they get another chance to qualify, or were they sent to bombardier or navigation school?
delcyros said:Greetings!
Nice to have You here around. May I ask what Your first impression about the B-17 was?
Erich said:Jules can you tell us why the diamond back design with the Y was used on the tail surfaces ? also in regard to the tail diamond, I see from the 99th bg web-site that some B-17's had a black diamond with white Y and others in same formation a white diamond with black Y. differences in squadron ?
many thanks
Erich
My 1st mission 7/19/43 I flew copilot with our sqdn ops officer. Target was Rome marshalling yards, the day before, leaflets were dropped stating that no churches would be hit. At briefing we were told that if there were any malfunctions, not to drop bommbs. 3 newsmen went on the flight, we had Richard Tregaskis with us from Intl News Service. the following day my picture was on the front page of a major New York newspaper.Henk said:Welcome jhor9 to the site.
I would like to know which famous targets did you get to bomb if any and have you been in a raid where there were any Me-262? Wish mission would you never forget?
Henk
jhor9 said:I was overwhelmed, on my orientation walk through to the cockpit, my instructor said to his 3 students "take a good look because in 10 days you will take a blinfold test, you will touch each instrument or object that is called off". 10 days later we all had no problem with his test.
evangilder said:Welcome aboard, jhor9! I am sure I speak for most of us here when I say thank you for your service.
the lancaster kicks ass said:hey, my question's more of a cultural one, what was the general American opinion of the British people? and what did you guys think of the RAF?