B-17-G Flying Fortress "Liberty Belle"

[johnsjunk]

Today I was driving on the 101 FWY and saw The Liberty Belle B-17-G Flying Fortress fly over from north to south over the 101 FWY and turn West towards Camarillo, CA.
She looked like she was coming from Van Nuys, CA. at about 1,000 feet up. And just staying below the low rain clouds.
It must have looked funny seeing this man with his head out the window looking up at an airplane going down the freeway
                                                             I didn't care that made my day!!!

[rallymodeller]

Not that weird. In the couple of occasions where air events happened around auto races I've been involved in, all action came to a stop to watch the pretty airplanes.

Take a look at this pic:


Think anyone was watching me, the guy in the Volvo? Nah. All eyes were on the P-51D and F-15E doing formation flybys. I could have crashed and burned and nobody would have come to help until the display was over. And I would not have blamed them one bit. At least at 1 minute 10 seconds for my pass that run I got to watch them as well...