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CaryC

CaryC

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RB Martin said:
Looks like a B-17 Flying fortress to me...

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SurvivalRing said:
Yes, it is…but what’s the name of THIS particular bird?

P.s. I got to climb around the inside of it back in 2007, when it landed in Riverton, Wyoming.
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You do know they made a few thousand of those?

To pick one apple out of a barrel of apples is impossible unless you can see the nose art.

So Memphis Belle is just as good as Tupelo Lass.....wait Tupelo Lass was a B-24 Liberator.

If you still want to play, give some detail as to its history, which is always fun to hear.
 
ShadowMan

ShadowMan

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The photo was taken during the production of a high-profile television commercial titled "Don't Mess with Texas Celebrity Face-Off". [1, 2]
  • The Aircraft: The B-17 featured is "Sentimental Journey," a restored WWII bomber operated by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Arizona Wing. [1]
  • The Scene: The crew on the runway was filming an ad campaign for the Texas Department of Transportation. While the low pass appears alarmingly close, it was a coordinated stunt for the production. [1]
  • Publication: The image appeared in the April 2011 issue of The Dispatch, the official monthly newsletter of the Commemorative Air Force, detailing the "winning ad" and showing the film crew at work. [1]
I believe we met some of the crew that restored and actually flew this aircraft. We met them on a Viking river cruise down the Rhine from Switzerland to the Netherlands. They were a very interesting couple, quite the characters!! Fun time.
 
CaryC

CaryC

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ShadowMan said:
The photo was taken during the production of a high-profile television commercial titled "Don't Mess with Texas Celebrity Face-Off". [1, 2]
  • The Aircraft: The B-17 featured is "Sentimental Journey," a restored WWII bomber operated by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Arizona Wing. [1]
  • The Scene: The crew on the runway was filming an ad campaign for the Texas Department of Transportation. While the low pass appears alarmingly close, it was a coordinated stunt for the production. [1]
  • Publication: The image appeared in the April 2011 issue of The Dispatch, the official monthly newsletter of the Commemorative Air Force, detailing the "winning ad" and showing the film crew at work. [1]
I believe we met some of the crew that restored and actually flew this aircraft. We met them on a Viking river cruise down the Rhine from Switzerland to the Netherlands. They were a very interesting couple, quite the characters!! Fun time.
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Cool. Thanks for the history and info.
 
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CaBuckeye

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SurvivalRing said:
Yes, it is…but what’s the name of THIS particular bird?

P.s. I got to climb around the inside of it back in 2007, when it landed in Riverton, Wyoming.
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B-17G-85-DL named Nine-O-Nine crashed from a midair in 2019 during a airshow.

Below is a table listing the currently operational B-17s:


Serial NumberNameLocationStatus
44-85784Sally BDuxford, UKAirworthy
44-83514Sentimental JourneyMesa, AZAirworthy
44-85829Yankee LadyBelleville, MIAirworthy
44-8543Madras MaidenOshkosh, WIAirworthy
44-83546Memphis BelleChino, CAAirworthy
44-83512(Name not specified)Palm Springs, CAAirworthy
44-83542(Name not specified)Santa Ana, CAAirworthy
44-83785(Name not specified)(Location not specified)Under Maintenance
44-85740(Name not specified)(Location not specified)Under Maintenance
 
jward

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There’s some quirk in physics where, if there’s a small hole in a bag of mulch it will leak all over your vehicle.
But if you rip a giant hole in the bag and try to dump it out into your landscaping, almost none will fall out.
 
SurvivalRing

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CaryC said:
You do know they made a few thousand of those?

To pick one apple out of a barrel of apples is impossible unless you can see the nose art.

So Memphis Belle is just as good as Tupelo Lass.....wait Tupelo Lass was a B-24 Liberator.

If you still want to play, give some detail as to its history, which is always fun to hear.
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It's called the Sentimental Lady. I saw the Don.t Mess with Texas ads years ago. Had no idea of what the name was then. Then, saw that it was coming through central Wyoming in 2007, and took my son and grandson to see it. A $5 donation let you climb aboard and see everything close up. An awesome afternoon.

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Sentimental Journey (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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Sentimental Journey (44-83514) is the nickname of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber. It is based at the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa, Arizona, US.[3] The aircraft is regularly flown to airshows throughout North America.

The nose art features Betty Grable, the number one pinup girl of the World War II era. The aircraft's name takes after a song made very popular by Doris Day in 1945.

Fuselage of the bomber

History​

Boeing B-17G 44-83514 was built by Douglas Aircraft in late 1944, and was accepted by the U.S. Army Air Forces on 13 March 1945. Assigned to the Pacific theater for the remainder of the war, it was subsequently placed in storage in Japan. In 1947, the B-17G was reconfigured as a RB-17G for a new role in photo-mapping and assigned to Clark Field in Manila.[4]

In 1950, the aircraft was transferred to Eglin Field, Florida and converted to a DB-17G for service as an air-sea rescue craft. During the 1950s, it was modified to a DB-17P standard, serving with the 3215th Drone Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. One of its important missions was "Operation Greenhouse," the fourth postwar atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted by the United States during the spring of 1951. As a mother ship, the RB-17P directed unmanned, radio controlled B-17 drone aircraft to measure blast and thermal effects and to collect radioactive cloud samples. During the test, a drone aircraft would take off under ground control. A "mother ship", already airborne, would then come from behind, take control of the drone and fly it to the target area.[4]

On 27 January 1959, the aircraft was transferred to military storage at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. After a few months storage, 83514 was acquired by the Aero Union Corporation of Chico, California, receiving civilian aircraft registration: N9323Z. For 18 years, the converted bomber flew as a forest fire fighter throughout the United States.[4]

On 14 January 1978, at a membership banquet for the newly formed Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, Colonel Mike Clarke announced the donation of the aircraft to the CAF for assignment to the Arizona Wing. A contest was initiated by the local media to name the aircraft, which resulted in more than 800 entries, and the ultimate selection of the name "Sentimental Journey" with nose art featuring World War II pinup Betty Grable. Permission was secured from widower Harry James to add Betty Grable in her most tantalizing pose to complete the newly acquired bomber.[5]

Although flyable, Sentimental Journey was not an accurate representative of the wartime B-17 bomber and in December 1981, the aircraft underwent an extensive restoration. By 1985, the addition of four operational turrets, operational bomb bay doors, navigator and radio operator stations, Norden bomb sight and machine guns completed the transformation to its original condition.[5]

Nose gunner/bombardier position, B-17G; at Falcon Field, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, 1984
Over the years, Sentimental Journey has performed across North America, as one of the most recognizable examples of the type, keeping the legacy of the B-17 intact.[4]

In 1979, Sentimental Journey appeared in a scene in the Steven Spielberg film, 1941. In 1991, Sentimental Journey was used in a "Don't Mess with Texas" ad campaign that later won the best ad in the US over 25 years in 2011.

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Sentimental Journey (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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