WWSensei has taken an opportunity to volunteer with the Commemorative Air Force. He’s now a ground-crew member helping to maintain the C.A.F.’s B-25 Mitchell “Yellow Rose”.
… I want to take this opportunity to make you jealous. Guess who is getting his first airshow trip as part of the B-25 crew tomorrow? Volunteering for latrine duty last week is paying off. Pics will come when I get back.
Wish I could commute to work like this every day.
Edit/Update: Sensei was kind enough to upload a few more images, and this brief synopsis of his flight:
The trip was to Hearne, Texas to commemorate the establishment of a WW2 internment camp there. Most of the Afrika Corps had been imprisoned there after Rommel’s defeat.
Here are those images, along with Sensei’s comments on them:
Photo of the crawl slide over the bomb bay toward the pit. I was sitting in the back facing rearward and snapped this over my shoulder.
Spar’s bud and someone I now call friend. Dave Berrio.
For Wringer, something you should find familiar.
So Plague doesn’t need to breakout the magnifying glass.
3 young boys 16-19, getting ready to jump. What’s scary is the real thing looked just like this too.
3 young boys 16-19, getting ready to jump. What’s scary is the real thing looked just like this too.
They jump (yes, they jumped from the R4D (Navy version of C-47)
We brought a T-6 as well. My first day at the hangar I helped them take apart the tail to do an annual.
Some more of the re-enactors.
German officer.
View from the nose.