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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 29, 2016 10:13:36 GMT 12
Robert McGowan of Otautau has asked me to share the link to his new forum at b17bombers.freeforums.net/ all about the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and its crews. Robert's Pop was an American B-17 pilot from Southern California, who moved to New Zealand after the war. |
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Post by b17pilotson on Sept 29, 2016 10:20:34 GMT 12
Cheers!
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Post by Ian Warren on Sept 29, 2016 12:35:20 GMT 12
This is one aircraft that really capture my imagination, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, I had to do a complete windows install on my FS machine (flight simulator), I did have a perfectly working system, lost a lot but raced to get it up and running as quickly as possible, the people incoming to check out exactly what I get up to was a School teacher, she brought three family members around - specific to show scenery, (educational tool idea) , only aircraft then installed other than default was the AH B-17F , when I said that was all I had installed currently .. the three guys went into WOW FACTOR .. Hanna the School teacher was .... I'll guess I hear from that later. @ b17pilotson If you have flight simulator, or not, would be a pleasure to paint your old mans B-17, if you have photos and the Markings and registration/tail code and unit markings, bring the aircraft back to life you, this was a personal promo I did , I do have both the AH B-17 and the A2A aircraft, B-17s yeah .. Gorgeous Aircraft!  |
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Post by b17pilotson on Sept 29, 2016 14:17:33 GMT 12
Hi Ian, WOW nice paintings, stunning! My wife and I actually own the Otautau Gallery. Just opened September 1st. Have a look here: Facebook.com/otautaugallery/
How much do you charge to paint my Pop's B17? Would you want to put a couple of B17 paintings for sale in our gallery? Let me know, B17Pilotson, Robert
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Post by Ian Warren on Sept 30, 2016 12:30:47 GMT 12
How much do you charge to paint my Pop's B17? Would you want to put a couple of B17 paintings for sale in our gallery? Let me know, Hi Robert, what you see above are screen shots, not paintings, but I do both painting Flight Sim aircraft and I also draw and paint, strangely the Fort has only had a few pen drawings, nothing yet worth selling, it is another work that really need to sit back and really do something different, this a quick BIC ball point pen drawing whiles in quiet moment.  I'll check your Gallery out .. be a pleasure to follow thru with a historical painting. |
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Post by Ian Warren on Sept 30, 2016 15:11:47 GMT 12
I have been researching the aircraft 230795, It is a B-17F-120-BO , 100 built in this batch, 'BO' being Boeing built, other two companies making the Fort was Douglas and Lockheed/Vega which go with the DL or VE variant.
I was wondering if you had any information on the unit or group within the 'Eight', bomb group it was assigned to?
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Post by b17pilotson on Oct 1, 2016 9:59:45 GMT 12
This was my Pop's bomber Ian. Go to B17bombers.freeforums.net and hit recent posts. Scroll down and read the documents I have published, it's all there. I would be interested if you have any further information on this particular aircraft. Regards
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Post by Ian Warren on Oct 1, 2016 11:01:26 GMT 12
I'll check this link out later, get myself signed in, I went thru my library here and that was all the data I had or to find out about 230795, as I mention the my interest with B-17, It is an icon of WWII, I used the old line from the TV series from the 1970's, instead of a 'Quin Martin Production' was AH, with that It would be interesting to probe about and find more information.
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