Oshkosh 2007 B17 Flight

On my trip to the EAA convention at Oshkosh, I got to live one of my life long dreams, to fly in a B17 Flying Fortress.
As we rolled down the runway, the feelings and emotions were surreal and almost other worldly as I was excited and bursting with joy to be taking to the skies in this legend of an aircraft that played such a great role in changing the face of history and averting defeat during the war, flying its deadly and perilous daylight bombing raids over Western Europe.
I was well aware that thundering down a grass runway in the English countryside in 1944, the emotions of the crew were very different.