[Video] B-17 at IWA doing touch-n-gos

Boeing B-17 touch-n-gos at IWA from Trevor Smith on Vimeo.

Podcast Download:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13836556/b17touchngo.mp4

I was driving (Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010) to Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport where I go to school back from lunch and looked up and saw the B-17G Sentimental Journey fly over the car on final a few hundred feet off the ground doing touch-n-gos. The plane is based at Falcon Field (FFZ), just to the north of IWA, and operated by the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force I've never see a B-17 flying before and it was quite a sight.

The video in the podcast feed is a lower quality the one found on the blog so it can be viewed on an ipod

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