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Before service in World War II, before being a Texas Longhorn, before being a New York Yankee (football) and a New York Giant â the first and legendary coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Landry, flew planes all around our area as a part of his United States Army Air Forces training at then Eastern Oklahoma A&M College at Wilburton.
By the end of his sophomore college football season, still stuck on the jayvee squad, Landry was looking beyond Austin to uncertain horizons, which he would be able to see from above, in a cockpit of a Flying Fortress of his own. In February 1944, the call-up came and he found himself hopscotching the country from Wichita Falls to San Antonio, to receive escalating levels of training, then to Eastern Oklahoma State College for actual flight lessons.
Diver Captures Stunning Photos of WWII ‘Flying Fortress’ Wreck on the Ocean Floor off Coast of Croatia
A diver has taken a set of striking images showing downed WWII planes off the coast of Croatia.
One of the planes, a bomber, took its last flight in November 1944, while en route to Vienna. But before it could reach its destination, it sustained too much damage and had to be forcibly landed in the Adriatic Sea, some 50 kilometers (approx. 31 miles) from the Croatian coast.
Martin Strmiska, 40, from Vietnamska, Slovakia, took a trip to Vis island, Croatia, last year, hoping to be able to photograph the B-17 bomber, dubbed the “Flying Fortress,” and managed to capture some jaw-dropping images from the ocean depths.
EAA’s B-17 ‘Aluminum Overcast’ begins 2021 national tour in March
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After a hiatus for most of 2020, the Experimental Aircraft Association s B-17G bomber goes back on tour in 2021 beginning in the southeast U.S. COVID-19 protocol for health and safety will be observed during this year s tour.
“These B-17 tour stops are more than flights of a historic aircraft – it is an emotional connection to the men and women who were part the ‘The Greatest Generation’ and the sacrifices they made to benefit us in subsequent generations.” OSHKOSH, Wis. (PRWEB) March 10, 2021 The Experimental Aircraft Association’s B-17 bomber Aluminum Overcast will return to a full national tour in 2021 after being sidelined for nearly all of 2020 due to the COVID pandemic.
EAA’s B-17 ‘Aluminum Overcast’ Begins 2021 National Tour In March
EAA’s B-17 ‘Aluminum Overcast’ Begins 2021 National Tour In March
PRESS RELEASE – The Experimental Aircraft Association’s B-17 Flying Fortress
Aluminum Overcast will return to a full national tour in 2021 after being sidelined for nearly all of 2020 due to the COVID pandemic.
The first portion of EAA’s 2021 tour schedule includes stops in Florida and Georgia before the aircraft heads northward to additional locations through the spring and early summer. The year-long tour will continue into the summer, with the airplane back “home” for the full week of EAA’s annual AirVenture fly-in on July 26-August 1 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.