Ride a B-17

jacobtowne · 01-09-2007, 04:09 PM

The current operating cost for flying a B-17 is $4000 an hour. It costs a customer $425 for a half hour's flying experience. Here's a link to the Collings Foundation.

The Collings Foundation - Stow, MA

JT

spidge · 01-09-2007, 04:58 PM

The experience is cheap however the return airfare from Australia isn't!

morse1001 · 01-09-2007, 05:18 PM

sounds interesting but it is costly to get there from the UK

01-09-2007, 08:23 PM

I'd rather go to Canada and fork out £2500 (last time I looked) to fly in Mynarskis Lanc than a B17

syscom_3 · 01-09-2007, 11:15 PM

I flew on the B17 in 1994. One hour was for $400.

It was a great experience though! The thrill of sitting in the nose looking through the bomb site was something I will never forget.

01-09-2007, 04:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
jacobtowne Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New England, U.S.A. Posts: 618	Ride a B-17 The current operating cost for flying a B-17 is $4000 an hour. It costs a customer $425 for a half hour's flying experience. Here's a link to the Collings Foundation. The Collings Foundation - Stow, MA JT

01-09-2007, 04:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,028	The experience is cheap however the return airfare from Australia isn't! __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

01-09-2007, 05:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
morse1001 Very Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland Posts: 4,585	sounds interesting but it is costly to get there from the UK __________________ WWW.WARFARETODAY.com

01-09-2007, 11:15 PM	#5 (permalink)
syscom_3 Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Orange County Posts: 63	I flew on the B17 in 1994. One hour was for $400. It was a great experience though! The thrill of sitting in the nose looking through the bomb site was something I will never forget. __________________ "Pilot to co-pilot, what are those mountain goats doing up here in these clouds?"

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01-09-2007, 08:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
Kitty Guest Posts: n/a	I'd rather go to Canada and fork out £2500 (last time I looked) to fly in Mynarskis Lanc than a B17

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