Flying in 'Sentimental Journey'

Today I had the pleasure of a flight in A second world war B-17 flying fortress bomber.
It was extremely noisy & very exiting, the most enjoyable experience here to date.
'Sentimental Journey' is one of only 8 of these left in the world..
I had the radio operators position during take off & then spent the flight wandering around the plane in perfect conditions, just a little bumpy.

                                                                      Preparations.

 Very spartan inside. Long missions over Europe would have been cold, noisy & uncomfortable.
   Access to the very cramped ball turret in the belly of the aircraft is under the yellow float.

                                 Looking toward the rear from the radio operators position.

                           Looking over the tail from the radio operators machine gun position.

Great view from the waist gunners position.

                                                                   Over phoenix.

                                                                           As above.

                                                                       

           The bomb bay.The 6 ionch wide walk way in the middle because any more than 100lb on the bomb bay door would cause it to open to release any bombs that broke away from their mounts.

                                                                Video during the flight.

                                       Passing a mountain. It was closer than it looks in this pic.

                                                      Looking toward the tail gunners access.

                                                                          Selfie.

                                      One of the many flying pieces of history located here.