The Heritage Flight Museum at Bellingham International Airport will be hosting the "Sentimental Journey", A World War ll era B-17 aircraft at the Bellingham Airport Sunday and Monday July 29 & 30. The Sentimental Journey the "most accurately restored B-17 that exists," said its pilot Bob Blue, a retired United Airlines. The B-17's were known as the Flying Fortress
The airplane was built in 1944, and entered United States Army Air Corps service as a photo reconnaissance plane in the Philippines. It then worked at sea rescues, next as a mother ship piloting drone planes through atomic bomb blast areas, Blue said. It flew over forest fires until the Commemorative Air Force purchased it in 1978 and it has been touring since.
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