Video: The Arizona Desert, A B-17, And A B-25 - Wow!
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 09:43PM
Seeing the B-17 Sentimental Journey and the B-25 Maid in the Shade flying around the Arizona desert doesn't exactly make sense to me, but this video is so enjoyable to watch that it doesn't need to make sense. It's actually some fabulous footage taken from a helicopter of the airplanes flying during a weekend event in conjunction with Veterans Day back in 2010. And of course, the setting for historic warbirds like these never really matters, they are simply awesome to see when in the air... especially when they are being used to honor those who have served the United States Armed Forces.
This video also convinces me that airplanes were meant to have propellers! Wow, do I ever love to see spinning discs with the sun shining on them. Can we agree on this right now? From this day forward all airplanes that have an engine MUST have a nice big prop! Ok, we could never make that work, but wow, I love me some big props : )
Screenshot: the awesome and beautiful B-17 Sentimental Journey on takeoff
Screenshot: the almost as beautiful B-25 Maid in the Shade (if only it was a taildragger!)
Reader Comments (2)
Magnificent is the only word that comes to mind and even remotely comes close to describing how awesome this video is, those old birds are so gorgeous I almost teared up :*)
...and I really want to know the name of the piece of music they used for this! lol
I agree on the props....wish we could hear those radials swinging those props. If it doesn't have a prop then it needs a trail of black smoke, like the first generation jets.