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Vintage Aircraft Weekend – Preview

September 2, 2012 4:54 am

Taigh Ramey and his crew recover a Harpoon

June 4, 2011 11:36 am

My 1980 Single Engine B-17 Landing

April 6, 2011 3:44 pm

A true story by Larry Kraus.

Okay, I ran out of usable fuel and to this day can’t explain why I didn’t have at least 40 minutes fuel left in the mains, but I did learn several lessons. For instance,just because the systems on one B-17 work in a particular way, don’t count on the all working that way. Also,there are important bits of information in maintenance manuals that aren’t in the flight manuals. I already knew not to put much faith in fuel gauges, but I thought that at least one of them might be remotely accurate.

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Get out your checkbook!! PBY for sale on EBay

December 11, 2009 9:28 am

Found on YouTube – Mars….

August 3, 2007 6:32 pm