The Collings Foundation announced that they’re ending the Wings of Freedom tour years after a World War II-era aircraft crashed and left several dead at.
Commercial pilot Robert Trammell recalls his experience flying a veteran B-17 Flying Fortress for the first time.
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Delta Air Lines and former Northwest pilot Robert Trammell, 45, has made numerous 747 flights on Asian routes across the Pacific. Trammell, of Monroe, Louisiana, has been a pilot for 25 years, logging over 15,000 hours. He’s flown across the North Pole, across Russia, has flown to Europe, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the Philippines.
In his spare time, Trammell serves as a volunteer curator at Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe, spending long hours there between his Delta tours. Recently, he had the chance to fly on a B-17G that came to Monroe as part of the Collings Foundation “Wings of Freedom Tour.”