Posted on 09/25/2009 12:00:33 PM PDT by txroadkill
Anyone who gets the chance, it's a great experience, highly recommended. Sitting in the nose watching the world come and pass by was wonderful.
Imagine at one time that the sky was full of them. They could put a thousand of them against one target in Germany, so many that they had to invent the term “bomber stream” to describe it.
You should be seeing them again by now Andy.
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/cf_schedule-wof.htm
The last a/s I went to in NH was at Boire Field, Nashua in 2004.
Wow! He looks like one very happy man! Usually only children have that amazed look of wonderment. I’m sure it brought back many memories.
Correct. This is not the last B-24 flying. Despite many requests from the CAF, Collins Foundation persists in claiming to have the only flying B-24. Not true. Ole ‘927 (formerly Diamond Lil) of the Confederate....urrrr....Commemorative (to be PC) Air Force is certainly flying and I saw it with my own eyes several weeks ago at a warbird fly-in in which we both participated.
I do recognize the good Collins does in providing such rides for vets; I just wish they would stop their erroneous claims.
Home school? Its the best!!!
We home schooled our son. Had a beautiful place in the country where he learned the 3 Rs as well as many things the publik skool didn’t teach. Socialized with Boy Scouts, made Eagle and 4H Shooting Sports. Went on to do very well as a helo mech after 6 years in the Navy.
Home school was the best thing we did for him.
They were flying B-24J named Witchcraft of the Collings Foundation here a few years ago. Wanted to hitch a ride on her, but they had a beautiful B-25 I could not resist.
24s were a mean looking bomber. My Dad flew as Flight Engineer on the ones converted to AvGas tanker (can’t remember the designation), 50+ missions “Over the Hump” India to China.
Sounds like your son turned out alright. I’m also an Eagle Scout (at age 16), hunted all my life, 4 years USAF (earned “marksman” rating during M16 traning), now successful in IT security, married to a brilliant aerospace engineer. We both attended public school, as do our 3 children.
I’ve never claimed homeschooling to be inferior to private or public education. But it seems many homeschoolers have no difficulty claiming the opposite to be true. When they paint with a broad brush, I’ll call them on it everytime.
The fact you had the self motivation necessary to become an Eagle Scout clearly shows you have the grit to also successfully wade the public school swamp. Many students can be overwhelmed by the distractions, violence, push against individuality and focus on “school district's status” test results.
Home school often is a worthwhile choice to the many out of control public schools. Home schooled often score better on tests on basic skills, SAT and not to mention practically grand slamming National Spelling Bees.
Successful public school students do so in-spite of public schooling, not because of it.
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