03-08-2005, 01:11 PM
ONE MORE THING--------THE--- B-17, Best Bomber.
Papa ART and I belong to a group called the Yankey Air Force with the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Air Port, where FORD produced the B-24s during WWII. We have a beautifully reconditioned B-17 named The Yankee Lady. Art and I took an hour flight in it 2 years ago. What a thrill that was. We asked the pilot about the motors. Did the ones on starboard spin in one direction and the ones on port,in the other. He said they all spun in the same direction, and there was a constant strain to keep it going straight, much like a race car, only in the car the strain was to keep it FROM going straight.
chucktoo