Warden Callaway Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Just stepped out of the house and this noisy big bird came over. I couldn't track it well with smart phone because I couldn't see it on the screen. Big. 4 engine prop. Went over mid-Missouri at 2:00pm today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 B24...Did you catch the reflection from the forward gun housing?...At least that's what it looks like to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Nope. Wrong empennage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 I'll load up on the PC and use my video edit software to capture some still shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrison Joe, SASS #60708 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Believe you saw a B-17. More of those around still flying than most other US WW II bombers. A B-24 has a squared horizontal stabilizer on tail. A -17 has a tapered one. When viewed from underneath. Yours - tapered. A B-24 tail is as wide as only the inner engine housings. A -17's tail is as wide as the OUTER engine housings. Yours - wide -17 has a full plexiglass nose, as well as the B-24. So a sun flare is quite possible on a -17. So, don't think you were Liberated, you were just Fortressed. Good luck, GJ B-24 id card: B-17 card: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 B-17 OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 I saved off a couple more but this one is probably the best profile. The glints are off the propeller blades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 B17...I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 It came from the west. Whiteman Airforce base is that direction. We're on the flight path from anywhere to everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 2 hours ago, Warden Callaway said: It came from the west. Whiteman Airforce base is that direction. We're on the flight path from anywhere to everywhere. Definitely a B-17! As to whether it came from Whiteman, unless they were having a special day with that bird, mostly what would be flying out of Whiteman would be one of the 509th's B-2's! And the 509th is (still) winning the war! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Warden, next time you see something overhead you wish to identify go to this site real quick ~ real-time radar tracking. Fine-tune it to your location and close... it'll remember where you are next time you open it. https://www.flightradar24.com/37.91,-93.01/8 It'll give you all sorts of information - point of origin, destination, altitude, speed... and aircraft ID. THEN, if you're really curious, you can enter the ID on the FAA's page and get aircraft specific data including basic history and ownership. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Inquiry.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 COOL! SWA138 from Auston to Chicago just flew over us. DAL1926 just flew south of us going from Kansas City to Atlanta. LOF4600 is over us now flying from Denver to Louisville. I should charge them for using my airspace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Kinda fun, ain't it...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Tour was in St Louis today through Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 A lot of years ago I had the opportunity to bowhunt in North Missouri. After supper we laid in our sleeping bags and watched the air traffic between St. Louis and Kansas City and other points of the compass. The sky was crystal clear, dark with the planes still reflecting sunlight. The volume was unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knarley Bob Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I would call a B-17 Flying fortress. Stabalizers aft are rounded. The "Lib" has two rudders, this one had one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Before so many commercial airliners were jet propelled and able to fly above about 30,000 feet (depending on the temperature), we used to call the contrails, "SACtracks"! Of course even B-17's could fly high enough to generate contrails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knarley Bob Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 19 hours ago, Warden Callaway said: I saved off a couple more but this one is probably the best profile. The glints are off the propeller blades. Rounded stabilizers and single rudder. 4 engines, plexiglass nose B-17 Had it had double rudders, on each end of stabilizers, you'd be looking at a "Lib". Interesting note, The B-24, which could take vast amounts damage, on "paper", wasn't even supposed to be able to fly. Go figure. Knarley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finagler 6853 Life Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 WAS starts this next week. I expect to see lots of different birds. They are already accumulating at the local airfielo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 My father-in-law was navigator on a B-17. He gave us a globe marked with all the places he flew to; not combat or bombing missions, but ferrying people and materials. The traces on the globe go around the earth several times. His short snorter was always the longest one in the bar... I don’t think he paid for any drinks the whole time he was in the Army Air Corps, Bless him and his crew. I wish he was still with us so I could hear his stories again, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Carpenter Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 B-17 for sure. I have seen six of them fly over my home on the central Atlantic coast of FL in the last three years. Cheers, Hoss C, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finagler 6853 Life Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 6 hours ago, Finagler 6853 Life said: WAS starts this next week. I expect to see lots of different birds. They are already accumulating at the local airfielo. Dang auto correct. Supposed to be EAA show. Airplanes all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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