B-17 Memphis Belle
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Allegheny County Airport built 1932
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Allegheny County Airport
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Memphis Belle on final
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Memphis Belle taxing
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B-17 Memphis Belle front view
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Belle front view
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Belle front
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Belle 3/4 view
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Memphis Belle nose art
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Belle port side view
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Port view
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The Memphis Bells
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Top gun and copilot
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Belle start taxing for take off
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Belle taxing
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Belle aft view taxing
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Belle starboard view taxing to runway
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Enterior starboard side waste gun
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interior top of ball turret
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Looking forward into cockpit
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Top turret
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Waste guns and ball turret
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50 cal gun
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More ball turret
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Radio equipment
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Raido equipment
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Looking out roof hatch in radio room
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Waste guns looking aft
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Main wheel well detail
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Wheel well detail
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Wheel well detail
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Main landing gear starboard side
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Looking forward into nose
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Looking up into top turret
Komentarzy
1 16 August 2014, 18:10
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Saturday August 16, 2014 the Memphis Belle a restored B-17 came to Allegheny County Airport outside of Pittsburgh PA. This Aircraft is not the actual Memphis Belle. this B-17 was used in the 1993 movie "the Memphis Belle". For $450 dollars US you could take a 30 min. flight in the Memphis Belle. The Belle was taking up to 10 person at a time and it was full each Flight. If I had $450 dollars I would have gone. I live close to the County Airport and I can see and hear the Memphis Belle flying around.
16 August 2014, 18:33
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Oh John, thank you so much for sharing these pictures with us!
I think the "Belle" was the reason for my "Pin Up" and "Nose Art" fascination!;)
Since i build the 1:72 Revell kit (the old one) I had this fascination and it was a pleasure for me to put the decal on...😄
16 August 2014, 19:30
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Hey Holger, thanks. I also built the old Revell kit back in the day. I need to build a better one some day. I also love good Nose Art. On Saturday for a $10 dollar donation you could take a tour of the interior of the Memphis Belle before it went flying. My batteries run out so many of the interior photos I took did not turn out.
16 August 2014, 19:46
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This ride is off my Bucket List, and I must say, what a great life experience. The sound, smell, and even the vibration of the take off was a memory for ever. My thoughts went to those before me that took the same ride in the early '40's and the poor souls on the ground. The flight that I had was in Sentimental Journey a B-17 G that was in Canada on tour. Great fun but also rightly named "sentimental journey". Catch Ya, Logan
16 August 2014, 20:12
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I have an academy one I won for free at our local hobby show 🙂
Looks like an awesome kit my man, if I can get the new humbrol metal spray cans, I might to tye metal finish. But if not..... well, back to the old OD sadly
24 August 2014, 12:26
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Its making the Mid-Atlantic circuit so if your in the region check your papers...probably a web schedule somewhere.
24 August 2014, 14:00
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One day I would like to build this B-17. If I´m not wrong Portugese AF also had quite a few B-17´s at it´s service t´ill the sixties.
15 November 2016, 11:06
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Was that B-17G-85-DL N3703G? It was one of 2 US based Forts used in the film, together with 2 from France and our UK based flying USAAF Memorial 'Sally B' (hard to believe there was only 5 flying B-17s to make the whole film!). The French used up to 13 B-17Gs and a B-17F for photographic and geophysical survey work by the Institut Geographique National, based at Creil/Senlis between 1947 to 1989. 'Sally B' was once one of these aircraft. (Please visit B-17 Preservation Ltd at www.sallyb.org.uk for more information - sorry, I have been a member of the 'Sally B' Supporters club for well over 30 years now!) 🙂
15 November 2016, 12:56
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This will come in handy. I just stumbled across an Academy Memphis Belle B-17 kit and picked it up for a real good price. This is why I always check your wall, John!
19 November 2016, 13:52
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Thanks Gerald and Greg, I am so glad You enjoyed them. I also have some photos of the only flying B-29 FI-FI which came to Pittsburgh for a visit this summer. I will post them up soon
20 November 2016, 14:07
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Flying B-17 Memphis Belle that stared in the 1993 Movie