The B-17 is a beautiful plane. One of the most durable planes ever built. The whole thing could get shot to sh*t and it'd always bring you home.

 

MY next door neighbor use to be a gunner in one of those glass ***** on the under side of the plane. Now thats some crazy stuff right there.

 

Well, off to the 1st day at the new job, here goes everything!

 

Go Gettum John!

 

good luck john

the WW2 flyers had brass *****!

 

Yeah...they are called the "Ball Turret" I have their sitting on a rolling pallet for everyone to see. You must have to have been 100 lbs soaking wet to get in it.

 

take it easy don't sweat it your gonna rock the place

 

belly gunner

not to many good pics around that I could find. He was a colorfull guy. Lost touch with him when we moved. Have to agree it had to be one of the scariest places to be sitting during battle

 

What's hard to believe is something I was reading about the ball turret was that is tended to be one of the safer places on the plane. Hard to believe.

 

Good luck, John! I guess that answers the question I emailed you about haha!

 

First day at work at a new place always reminds me of the first day at school at a new school.


Good news is you have a clean slate with your co-workers and employer.

 

Good Luck John. Hope it is a great day for ya!




I have a lot of respect for all the WWII planes and pilots/crew of them. It had to take a lot of guts to get up in the sky knowing that there was a good chance that you werent coming back.

 

What is amazing is that these were not career military. Our military today is outstanding. But you throw in average guys off the street from 18-35 and I don't think we'd have a chance. Have you seen the idiots walking around out there. We'd have to have two militarys. One for the real military, and the other for the drafted thugs, slackers, and stoners that didn't flee to Mexico. Of course we'd call the latter infantry.

 

I like that too, keep it coming...

 

I was Army for 9 years. It is sad when you cant even trust the guy watching your back. I just wish that we were able to beat the lower enlisted still.

 

Thanks all. Was a good day. Went smooth, 1st day jitters are over. Not sure of schedule yet, but will be in training for a few I'm sure. It's a bunch of guys that most use to be mechanics and such, so you can imagine the behavior type.

I got it, just haven't sat down long enough to reply with all the changes, lol.

 

You'll do great John....I expect to see you back on the mod road again in about 3 months....after you get settled in really good!! And yeah I can imagine...I work with 35 guys in a shop enviroment!

 

Can someone please give me directions on how to get off of mod road. I think I just turned off of mod road onto mod highway or something.

 

Face it Gary.....Your like me.....Stuck in the Mod World forever. I just hope my wife really does bury my sorry *** in the 70 Mach!! It's in my will!! She can have the passenger seat if she wants.

 

Quit your job, cancel/freeze credit cards, that'll do it!