Okeydokey, so now y'all seen the outside and inside of Fifi...what's she like in the air ?
One word' Ohmyfrikkinhellthisisbeyondepic' !
Yes, I was a bit excited on my first flight in a B-29 and I had been assigned the bombardiers seat for the flight as well...short of hands on the controls, it don't get much better than that I can tell ya !
Sat there in the pointy end lined up on the runway and the thottles are moved slowly up to take off power, the noise is....you don't just hear it, you feel it !. Surprisingly, once we started to move the decibels dropped considerably...the reason for this is a we accelerated, we outstripped the noise footprint because we were in front of the clockwork !
Settled into the cruise and I tried a quick vid...poor cell phone struggled to keep up with the noise which was surprising because it didn't actually sound that loud...and that is without doubt a bl**dy awful first frame of the vid !
If you didn't hear in the above vid, the flight from Pittsburg down to Baltimore was around 1:10 hr and we transited mostly at around 7.5K alt. Flying over the clouds sat in the front of Fifi was just pure adrenalin pumping sheer magic !
Around about half way there, Curt obliged and used my cell phone for this pic...the more I look at it and what it involved, my gob is well and truly smacked !!
Clearly I am a Star wars Stormtrooper as I missed most of my mug ...good thing really
...in this pic. Being assigned to the Bombardiers seat as a rider means you are there for the duration of the flight which is not a problem at all
We did a slight detour on the way and dipped down and overflew the Gettysburg Memorial as a mark of respect. It was a little bit bouncy at the lower altitude but to be honest, I didn't notice as was still in sensory overload mode. Then is was time to land...I've had to reduce the length and picture quality of this clip to get it under the upload restriction...and needless to say it was stunning approach and touchdown
More to follow still