Flying the Consolidated B-24 Liberator Bomber in Restored Color (1943)
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- This is the most detailed systems & flight procedures checkout for a B-24 pilot you will ever see. The B-24 Liberator bomber was technologically more advanced than the B-17, but due to a rush to production had some early teething problems. Nevertheless, Liberator squadron's flew many outstanding missions, including the epic low level raid on the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti, and crew members were proud of their ship. More B-24s were produced during World War 2 than any other US bomber.
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My Dad was the top turret gunner and flight engineer in WW 2.. on the 24. He lost many of his friends but God blessed him and brought him home after the war. Very proud of those airmen
B-24s were the MVP of WWII. They served EVERYWHERE in WWII and were fantastic anti-shipping and anti-submarine bombers unlike all other heavy bombers. The Snooper black ops missions are my favorite B-24 missions. They did nighttime radar guided anti shipping low altitude bombings on ships in the Pacific!!! It wasn't disclosed to the public until about 20 years ago because they were doing some extremely modern style warfare with the Snooper B-24s! I thank your father for his service.
Your dad, like my grandparents, was a hero. My English GP was a surgeon on a Royal Navy destroyer and my Sicilian grandfather was an anti-Mussolini partisan who spent his free time sabotaging gun emplacements and other defences in preparation for the US landings in '43. Couldn't be more proud of both of those wonderful men, and of all those that made the ultimate sacrifice and never made it home.
Dad was an R/O for the 467th BG in Norfolk. Bombed Rhineland in the Battle of the Bulge. No friends killed or wounded, came back from 26 missions hale and hearty. No repercussions whatsoever. The nicest guy you ever knew.
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My Uncle was the navigator on a B24 flying out of northern Italy.He lost his life on October 17, 1944, two days before his twentieth birthday, when the plane was shot down over Austria.
I was born the day after his birthday nine years later. I was named after him. My father, his brother, carried the grief of this loss until he died.
Like a number of others here my dad was a Liberator pilot but was an RAF pilot flying them as part of Coastal command. If I remember him correctly he said they had extremely long flight endurance 13 hrs plus, they had extra pilot crew on so they could rest with a galley for cooking. Presumably this was on U boat patrol, he also flew Catalinas for picking up downed pilots over the North Sea. He trained for the Catalinas in Pensacola I remember him going over to a reunion there.
My dad was the flight engineer on a B24 crew with the 466th Heavy Bomber group at Attlebridge Airfield in England with the USAAF. I have all his log books from all his flights over Germany, Belgium, and France, including his handwritten checklist in a little spiral notebook. The pilot, copilot, and engineer were the 3 initial crew that went through this checklist before the rest of the crew came on for the mission. They were shot down on their last mission, but all made it back to England. These HBs had the highest casualty rate of all airforces in WWII. My dad was one of the lucky brave young guys who never knew if they would be coming back from their mission each time the took off.
My Dad was a navigator in the 466th. Flew 10 missions in The Black Cat and 10 in the lead ship Ghost Too (all with the Hendricks crew).
You are wrong sir, if you do your research you will find RAF Bomber Crews had substantially higher loss rate. That said the men of the USAF were incredibly brave and far to many paid the ultimate price for victory.
Neither myself or my children ever forget these stories of bravery and call to protect our freedoms and way of life. Thank you for your insight and sharing this import fact
Kudos to your father
@@Cadzan You are correct the RAF took much heavier loses and they flew mainly @ night. When they were doing daylight like the USAAF Germany was @ it strongest and shot the living hell out of them. After horrific losses they went to nighttime Missions only and still took a beating.
My uncle was a flight engineer on B-24's in the Pacific where they flew long, over water missions. Lots of preflight checks on piston engines; on jets, you just start them and go! Lots of manual setting of various systems that became more automated in later aircraft. In their day, these were state-of-the-art aircraft and it took real pilots to fly them, not to mention how courageous these crews were. A big salute to all of them!
My father was a B-24 pilot and flew 35 missions in WWII. 461 Squadron, 461 bomb group out of Italy.
Wow, there's more to fling one of those than I thought.
My father was a B-24 pilot flying out of Italy into southern Europe, Austria, Czechoslovakia and other countries. He also brought his plane across the Atlantic, via the Azores.
My dad was a bombardier on a B-24 out of Italy . The Classy Chassis was the nose art.
What was his air force number and Squadron number?
Was he assigned to 15 Air force 451St. Squadron?
My Father also flew out of Italy with the 449th @Grottaglie, Italy.
My Grandmother worked on B-24s at the Consolidated plant in Ft. Worth, TX during the war. Great video, thanks for posting.
My Mother worked @ Bendix building sub-assemblies for various Aircraft & My Father was a B24 Navigator.
I know the American people with two characteristics and I respect and love them very much. First, they are very hardworking and active people, both men and women, and second, they are very brave and courageous in following unknown paths.
Amazing how far they came in less then 40 years of powered flight.
I was a engineer on both Navy C-118's and CV-580's. The 24 was more work than either of them. My father was a Bombardier 455th BG 720 squadron, 35 missions over target he loved the 24 and said it got a undeserved bad rap.
Boeing was always better at PR and propaganda than Consolidated. The B-17 has an undeserved good rep. The B-24 was better in just about all categories - range, survivability, etc.
Having flown the the piston powered Convair 240s and 440s back in the mid 60s, then the the Allison turbine powered 580s in the early 70s, I can relate to the difference in work loads between the two engine types.
My grandfather was also a bombardier on a b24, also 35 missions....the greatest generation.
Had a friend of mine who ditched a C-131 just last year. Wild how those old radials can be.
On the same day I almost landed off airport in an EMB-120
@@princeofcupspoc9073 no you get it wrong. B-17 have higher survivability rate and is able to fly at much higher altitude and easier to fly than B-24.
Can you imagine taxiing onto runway, seeing your indicated airspeed is "O," and asking "Hey, did anyone remove the pitot tube covers?" AWKWARD!
"If there is air combat outside the plane, ignore it until you finish these important procedures!"
Great video, thanks for the upload. Have pics of my uncles crashed B-24, the Swee' Pea, in Italy - what s sturdy aircraft. They attached the parachutes to the plane to stop it once it hit the ground, all crew survived. At 2:30 they mention the pitot head covers being removed (and, yes, it WOULD be awkward to remove them in flight - LOL); it's believed that a malfunction of the pitot tubes is what brought down Air France 447, crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, in June 2009. Amazing to see what changes have been made since WW II and what has stayed the same.
I like the funky, metallic sound in the background.
I knew a former Lib pilot when he was in his healthy seventies.I asked him if he could still get one in the air."Yes, I could." Then added quickly, "...but I would't want to land it. You have to fly those things hot-right on in to the ground."
My Father became a Navigator because he could not land it. Had not problem taking off and flying, but could not stick the landing.
Tonopah Nevada was a major training base for B-24.
Train well, learn your craft, team work.
Never ask your ship to do what she can't.
She'll do her best to return you home.
My uncle was a nose gunner in one of these during the war. I still have a picture of him and his crew standing if front of the plane. He never spoke about it when I knew him many years ago.
My Father never loosened up about it until after he hit 50. By that time after spending 20 years with Our Pastor who was an Army Chaplin in WW2 and a Group of other WW2 Combat Vets including my Uncle who were Parish Members had regular bi monthly meetings @ the Rectory, he probably got over His PTSD and was actually able to talk about it. All I knew up to that time was that he was a Navigator in a B24 and spent 15 months in a POW Camp. After he opened up His stories were sometimes humorous(He did have some funny stories that I can laugh about to this day), but mostly horrific.
My Uncle, 1st Lt Albert F Boyhan was a B 24 L pilot. Uncle Red was KIA on Feb 7th 1945 after a successful mission in Austria. Uncle red is buried in the American cemetery in Ardennes Belgium...
My neighbour was an upper gunner in 357 Sqn in Burma. Told me once about the plane ahead of his crashing on takeoff (engine failure in the intense heat) and once the smoke cleared enough his plane took off. That's just how it was during war.
I love these old training vids of WWII. These motion pictures make it look so easy to fly these machines. Thought the narrator states it's just for familiarization, it was the intention to get these pilots up to speed with their machines as fast as possible. It was wartime.
My Father flew His first mission the day after they arrived @ their Operational Base.
Thanks!
My favorite Bomber
Good one, Zeno-this will be incredibly valuable. Thanks!-Nick
Excellent restoration.
Watched the whole thing! Thanks for posting.
I've always wondered how engine management was handled...I just didn't know that the pilots had to handle all of that including flying the aircraft ! Holy Moly that is A LOT of detail of which to keep track.
SquillyMon I flew in the C-97 four engine cargo plane. It had a flight engineers panel and several extensive check lists. The pre engine start check list had 100 items.
Near to my home is the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. It's home to the US Navy Test Pilot School. For their final project there is a list of modern and historical aircraft available for the graduate work. These aircraft are either current military or lease/rent aircraft. Many of the graduates choose to fly a leased B-24 and I've had the pleasure of seeing it up close and flying overhead.
I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the info!
THEY HAVE B24's AT PAX NAV?????? Can a private pilot get their license and learn to fly those? xD My grandfather flew one in ww2
Looks like this was filmed at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Az. Unmistakable Catalina, Tucson, Santa Rita and Rincon Mountains. I’m sure the bone yard also housed many of these B-24’s when they were retired. As a teen I used to drive out and explore many planes getting ready to be scrapped. Now your only lucky enough to just view the yard over dirt mounds from a distance or pay for the tour.
My partner's dad flew B-24s in WW2 (Jimmy Stewart was one of his flight instructors---a damned good one, too). It's not exciting, but informative. And a great restoration for the historical record.
My Dad also flew 24's in WW2. Jimmy Stewart was his Flight Commander! He flew out of Horsham-St. Faith I believe.
My Dad was in the 8th, AF 93 bomb group. He knew Jimmy too..We stopped in his family 's hardware store in Johnstown, Pa back in the 60s and met Jimmy's father and mother a couple of times.
@ the 1:00 mark the narrator states "this is a serious film,it is NOT entertaining..."
Little did they know of You Tube of course back then .
I nodded off at least twice... it is the driest CZcams video I've ever seen.
typical ...attention span....3 to 4 blinks and zzzzzzz.....lucky for this country didn't have to depend on you in ww2.
@Brett Bass gbub
Thanks so much for posting this. I've seen other training films for the B-17 or B-26 with Hollywood actors doing the instruction, but none did as good of a job explaining WHY you did this rather than that. But I have to admit, I really wanted to hear the roar of those Pratt and Whitney engines.
One of my local hometown boys who did not return...On February 21st 1945, Flying Officer John Willard Thompson(of Bowden, Alberta Canada) and his crew from 223 Squadron were on a nighttime Radio Counter Measures mission over Germany dropping chaff to jam German radar. They were in an RAF B-24 Consolidated Liberator B.IV. Serial #TS520. Call sign 6G-J.
They were shot down by a night fighter some 7 Km north of Bad Fredeburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. German pilot believed to be Oblt. Kurt Matzak, Stab./NJG1.
5 crew survived and were taken prisoner. The 5 crew that died were first buried at the Catholic Cemetery in Kirchrarbach, Germany. Then temporarily buried at the Allied Cemetery at Margraten, Netherlands. Final reburial 26/03/1947 Venray War Cemetery, Netherlands.
F/O J.W.Thompson RCAF KIA
F/S J.H.Kendall KIA F/S R.Wynn KIA
F/O R.W.Johnson Injured
W/O W.F.Baker Injured
W/O R.A.Palmer taken PoW
F/S D.Bryant KIA
F/S B.Maxwell RCAF taken PoW
F/S R.M.Wood RCAF KIA
Sgt E.E.Whittaker KIA
F/S G.R.Graham Injured
F/O R.W.Johnson, W/O R.A.Palmer, W/O W.F.Baker, F/S B.Maxwell, and F/S G.R.Graham were confined in Hospital until Liberation in May 1945
Much Respect to those men and the families that raised them to be so selfless....Thank you for sharing their story.
So funny.
My dad trained as a B-24 belly gunner, but once deployed to the 93Bg of the 8Th USAAF stationed in England, he was moved to nose gunner. The belly turret was removed to increase bomb payload, so he never flew combat as belly gunner. They did 35 missions crashed twice due to flack, no serious injuries. The second crash landing was in a farm field somewhere near Belgium and they came close to crossing a road alongside the field. If they had crossed the road they would have taken out major communication lines of Gen Patton. The MP’s that picked up my dad’s flight crew told them if they had taken out those com lines, Gen Patton probably would have paid them a very unpleasant visit. It was always fascinating but rare to get stories of WW11 out of him. As of last summer he pasted away so I share his story for others to hopefully enjoy
Glad your Dad got out of the belly as it was the most dangerous place to be and was not retractable, so if you had to crash-land the Belly Gunner was toast!
And to think by 1944 they were building one B-24 Bomber per hour at Willow Run!
Yeah , they were really cranking them out 👍
Unlike the war movies where it takes the pilots and crew about 30 seconds to go from getting into their aircraftt to take-off.(lol)
My father flew in the B24 bomber as a rear gunner in WWII.
I've watched the film twice ..I'm ready to fly one..
@JZ's Best Friend - Just a little more complicated than my riding mower.
@JZ's Best Friend I am.sure you could get the same exposure and feeling if you had the chance to sit in one at your local hardware store. Mine doesn't have the bomb bay though..
@JZ's Best Friend My Dad was a radio operator in one of those. He was shot down over Norway in 1943 and barely limped over the border to Sweden where the entire crew were interned for most of 1944 where he was smuggled back to England to fly the final missions. By then Patton was crossing the Rhine.
ping me over at loonkiller gmail if you are really interested .
That is what the navigator on Lady Be Good say.
My Dad Ralph McConnell was a top turret gunner and flight engineer His B 24 nose Art was called the Unexpected Visitor He flew from Nov 44 to Oct 45
Really? It's awkward to remove the pitot head covers in flight? 02:30 Who knew. ;)
So glad you don't have to go through a complex process each time you start or shut down your car!
Unless you have very long arms I guess. I like the storing of the lock down strap so it 'doesn't slap you in the face' bit myself.
Fantastic video!!! THANKS!!
Best checkout video made for WWII!
For all the attention given the B-17, the Liberator actually dropped more tonnage of bombs on Germany.
Most mass produced Heavy Bomber in History. Flew the most Sorties and dropped the most tonnage in WW2. The B52 dropped more tonnage in Cambodia & Laos on the Ho Chi Minh Trail than all the Bombers of WW2 in Germany & Japan.
No wonder WWII lasted so long. Took an hour just to get this beast in the air.
Well in a battle it would not have taken that long to get it in the sky this is a training film so they slow it all down so that you understand everything going on also in a real battle bombers would not have been used for fighting other bombers and a lot of these pre-flight checks I would not have happened and again they would have used fighter planes to take down bombers not bombers to take down bombers
This so interesting to see how folks did things in the 1940's. It all looks very professional.
Each ship a miracle of engineering genius yet only a tiny fragment of our war efforts.
Oh just think what we might accomplish if mankind could only get along with one another.
With hands linked in friendship rather than raised in anger.
Congratulations!
It's a miracle these things even got off the ground... So many complex systems that could have malfunctioned, etc. What if something got shot out or disabled?
Well, then you better are a crew who knows every nut of the plane. The B-29s for instance where only brought into the air in 44 in China due to the efforts of the Crews and the mechanics. Don't ever ask that question for one of today's large planes, they will answer it's all computerized we have several books with error- codes and messages. They found out that it's not worth the effort really because if anything hits you in a jet, it will most likely hit something which loves to burn.....since they are basically huge fuelcans with wings and a burner. Nonetheless a modern jetliner has a better fuel eiffciency than those piston engines (which were already quite good) had. If you fly in a A-340 or other large liner you also have around 300 tons of fuel not far from you...
"Awkward to remove the pitot covers in flight" LOL you think?
Just amazing Daniel. I love this sort of information . Brings my dad closer when I read this sort of information
My grandfather built these in San Diego during the war.
So did my mom and dad, they meet there.
Consolidated San Diego 👍
@@davegeisler7802 Never came close to the production @ Ford Willow Run that turned
out one per hour.
@@user-qy9tf2im7f that was epic production , but my heart is with Consolidated being from SD !
My Father was a B24H(Ford Willow Run Plant) Navigator 449th Bombardment 716th Squadron shot down over Yugoslavia 1/14/1944. It was not a pleasant place to be. Missions and losses were horrific. My Father's Ship was part of the Original Cadre of 62 Ships. Only 18 of the 62 Ships saw the end of the war. He always said that their Ground Crew Chief was the most important Man in the Operation of the Ship. What they do not talk about flying @ 50 below Zero for 10 hours in electric suit, putting on a 90lb flak Jacket when you came under fire, knocking icicles off your mouth as saliva froze coming off your oxygen mask, being attacked by Fighters without escort, flak exploding all around you. This looks nice on a concrete runway, but most of the time they were taking off from modified surfaces of captured Airports that were sometimes wet and muddy
like Grottaglie, Italy where my Father's Group was based. Yet they kept on going all the time. May God bless all others of the Greatest Generation!
My Dad flew one in the Flying Tigers. Kings X was the name of the plane. 43 missions
Very Cool !
5 stars best site on web!!!
GREAT video
Be really cool if they could have gotten Jimmy Stewart to narrate this. He was a B-24 pilot during WWII and flew 25 missions!
being a pilot in those days was more about engineering than flying i guess
Ever heard of a type rating?
Its even more complicated now.
L Ludovic American four engine bombers built in the late forties had a flight engineers panel which had all the controls and switches for operating the engines and other systems. The pilots focused on flying the plane. The pilots and the flight engineer worked very closely with each other from start to finish of the flight.
My Father was a Navigator on a 24 and A Graduate Engineer.
muchas gracias, esta muy bueno el documental
Just watched a video wherein they were producing a completed B24 every 55min. at their hight of production! Beat that!, you damn krauts! :D
Thank God for Ford Willow Run!
My friend, Bob piloted this plane in WWII, he never bought Mitsubishi products since!
Jimmy Stuart was the most famous guy to fly a b24 he was a true hero he flew his required combat missions not a instructor only he even flew several mission in Viet nam
Lp LP LP
Fear the rope.....I remember that part. Meant the battery wasn't charged and had to do it manual. I did complete that task and I did fear the rope when it didn't crank right up that day because we were already in air. I obviously got it done though.
thank you great video
I think the war will be over before these guys finish their checklist.
Tabourba no, he uses an App to do it for him.
Was this film done in Groom Lake? Looks a lot like it in the old days.
It's amazing how primitive these video we're back then. When I got check out with the EAA' S Aluminum Overcast I was given a flight manual for the B-17G and told to study the book. Before I was able to fly I bad to fly the jump seat and watched before I could even touch the controls. Being able to fly an airplane like these is an experience of a life time when once only officers in the USAAF would fly and here I made it to SFC E7 in the US Army. If given the chance I would love to fly Witchcraft the B-24
You piloted a B-17 ?
A liberators came down above the moors near Burnley Lancashire England in February 1943.
My Uncle was a Waist gunner on the Queen of Peace. I have a picture of him in uniform but I wish I would’ve found a group shot. The only group shot I had was when they posed in Sweden when the plane crashed there, with no major injuries thank
God.
Holy crap! I'm no pilot but that take off check list is a whopper! No wonder they preferred college boys flying these things
My Father was a Degreed Industrial Engineer & Navigator who flew his first Mission @ 26 years Old.
The Pilot was also a 27 yr old College Grad. All the Gunners & Flight Crew were NCOs They had both joined the Service before Pearl Harbor and went through 2 years of OCS to ger Regular Army Commissions. They both enlisted because the draft was heating up and they thought they would be safe in a 2 year school, little did they know they would be shot down & Prisoners of War 3 year later. The Early Crews were not 90 Day Wonders.
okay im ready to flight liberator now
How is it the same guy narrates every one of these kind of videos
I drove one of these planes about thirty years ago. My uncle was a Pratt (Pratt & Whitney) the plane was called the liberator. I have Jewish Roots. He ran the Ghost Squadron and collected old planes....I wish I could find the one with the bird with the flame...the Louisiana Belle. I was only 10-12 and it was literally Uncle Lenard Pratt turning off the engine and me having to crank and level it without dying. It instilled a Commander Personality in me kind of like sink or swim.....fly it or die. He knew how to work on the engines since his family made them and I doubt we were suppossed to be in the air with it lol. I am so curious to climb into one again.
@@dukeford I don’t do drugs hon, this is a documented event ghost squadron I was only 16 much love
I read somewhere that B-17 crews use to call the B-24 the box the B-17 came in.
The B-24 is a fine invention but it'll never replace the airplane.
@@rileyk99 what's your point? The B-24 is an Airplane
@@flogger8413 it's a joke bud.
That is true, but the 24 had greater range, air speed and Bomb load, but was considered less survivable although many 24s made it back to base with extensive
battle damage.
Damn it. I forgot to open the cowl flaps when I landed and burned up all four motors. Glad I drive a Toyota.
Does anyone know what the duties of a B-24 navigator were, besides navigation? I want to know, because my father didn't tell me he flew 49 missions over the Japanese during WW2 until the last few weeks of his life, and I can't find out through an Internet search. Thanks.
Watch the video on Operation Chastise; it has a modern crew learning the navigation process to duplicate the Dam Buster run on a WW II Lancaster bomber; undoubtedly the process was somewhat similar for the B-24. Have a new appreciation for just how difficult navigation was and how it was a 'team effort' during the war. czcams.com/video/sH--8BrzK9Y/video.html
mwbright...they did lots of things depending on the situation. For instance, if under fighter attack, he would replace injured gunners...if a fire broke out, he was 1st to hit it with an extinguisher...bomb hung up, go to the bomb bay and kick it free...crank down the gear if the hydraulics are shot out...and on and on. Every member of the crew was cross-trained in EVERY job onboard except the actual flying of the plane...and some did even THAT on their own. My Pop was a waist gunner on B-17's...lots of stories just before he passed although he never said a word for many, many years...as was common for those of that generation.
Dad was "navigator-bombardier" in Navy Liberators (PB4Y-1) in the Pacific.
@@robrhyner2949The PB4Y was designated as the Catalina. The B-24 IS the Liberator.
@@danelatham215 The Catalina was "PBY", the B-24 was "PB4Y".
Thank up movie!!
These airplanes were made by the same factories that would make 1950s cars, you can see the beauty correlates!
Ford Willow Run Plant was turning out one per hour.
An amazing feat of mass production!
Oh my, how procedures have changed. I would'nt stand a change flying this old bird.
Whoever flew these ? Aircraft? Should have been awarded the medal of Honor. Way too many discrepancies with all ground and flight operations.
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As a former private pilot with some 824 hours I am simply amazed at the complication of just getting the 1940's piston engines to start much less operating under combat conditions.
"well i'm just rare'n to go!"
Pitot covers awkward to remove in flight? Really????
They don't mention anything about the 90lb Flak Jackets they had to throw over an already bulky electric
suit that was lamb skin with fleece outer layer flying suit!
Awsome
So, back in WWII was there no dye in the fuel? I suppose it wasn't needed until jet fuel came along because except for the octane rating there was no wrong fuel.
B24 used gasoline, not kerosene
The narrator sounds like Andy Griffith.
Start up the putt putt, daddy's home!
Many of these were built in the city I'm from, Tulsa. There's a cool history of the hangar there at the airport, at least for me it's interesting. Driving around the area and wondering why it is the way it is now, from an event/need 80 years ago.
Kind of bummed, I was supposed to go see FiFi (B29) and Diamond Lil (B24), and was a keystroke away from buying a ride in Lil.....event got cancelled. I'd rather ride in a B17 so maybe something is in the future for me. I understand these are ancient, 80 year old planes, and better cancel than sorry!
I subbed
The B-24 was a dog to fly. I have known two pilots that flew multiple bomber types. They both hated the 24
My Father told me it was tough to fly, but the Davis Wing gave it faster speed and a heavier bomb load than the B17.
"Picturizing"??? 😳
I dont know if...during the war,all thoses procedures were follwed. They must skipped a fiew of them.
They may have, and would pay with their lives, eventually. Flying planes, especially big planes is complicated, (usn flyer).
@@KB4QAA My Cousin who is a Retired Capt
USN Aviator flew Lockheed P-3 Orions , Carrier Based Helicopters and other fixed wing Aircraft & used
to compare notes with my Father who was a B24
Navigator and there were still a lot of things in common in flying both Aircraft and yes you did not skip anything on your checklist unless you had a death wish!
Apparently, the narrator recorded this in a tunnel.
Soo...what you are saying here is that she is not exactly Gas n Go eh ?
READY TO GO........ THE WARS OVER
Checkout the Lady Be Good unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2017/06/16/lost-and-found-the-story-of-lady-be-good-and-her-crew/
Tonopah Nevada B - 24 familiarization and four engine qualification training base.
U.S. Army Air Corp pilot operations instructional film for B-24 flight requirements.
Groom Lake Nevada heavy bomber training field.
“ the garden spot of the south west “
Pilots upon successful completion of training would be issued orders to the field of operations South Pacific or European areas.
There they would be assigned crew members trained in their particular assigned positions.
Crew of ten normally.
The required twenty five operational missions oft fraught with perils of all types.
Just flying normally pre GPS was challenging enough. Enemy action damaging vital components making it an increasingly daunting task indeed.
When I see a missing man formation of the old girl well,,,
It’s interesting to see these aircraft in pristine condition.
If they're had time controls could of been better
B24……..the box the B17’s came in🤣
If only the B-24 had hydraulic controls.
Or fly-by-wire.
They had a lot of hydraulics on them. Your big concern was if they got shot out or malfunction, then the Pilot & Co-Pilot became Olympic Class Leg Pressers.
How Germans and Italians flew captured B-24 without somebody teach them to use?
Yes, KG200, used as transport aircraft.
@@richardrichard5409 Yes who was the pilot? POW or what?
Wow......couldn't they just download an APP that would do all this for them?