Last weekend the B-17 Memphis Belle came to town! This is not the original Memphis Belle, the B-17 piloted by Robert K. Morgan that was celebrated so highly in 1943 for finishing 25 missions. That plane is grounded and being lovingly restored in Dayton, Ohio....
OH, NO! Yesterday, Monday. June 13th, the Liberty Belle made its final flight. Shortly after taking off the crew smelled smoke, and the pilot was alerted by another plane that an engine was on fire. He skillfully made an emergency landing in a...
Yesterday, February 9, 2009, I rode on theLiberty Belle, a restored World War II B-17. It was an amazing opportunity, an experience of a lifetime, to visualize what their plane must have looked like to the crew of our Dad's B-17, the Liberty Lady....