B-24 Liberator in the Morning Sky

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This morning while on a pleasant bike ride through the countryside I chanced to hear a familiar rumbling noise.  Not seeing anything immediately, I stopped to look at a pony and a mule that had gotten loose from a pasture.  Moments later, over the cottonwood trees there appeared a B-24 Liberator flying overhead not more than 1000 ft above ground.  This is something you don’t see every day. 

Turns out that the owners of this aircraft were flying out of a local airport over the holiday selling $400 rides in this lumbering relic of another age.  Hell, if I could justify it to my wife, I’d have taken a ride too.

6 thoughts on “B-24 Liberator in the Morning Sky”

  1. bill

    Well, this is really quite interesting.

    On the weekend before July 4 – must have been July 1 , I was bicycling in Charlevoix, Mi and observed the very same thing. B-24 plane rides for $400.

    I, too, had my interest raised. I have fond memories of a tour (no rides…) of a B-52 bomber.

    Could there come a time when someone will give nostalgic old geezers rides in B-52’s? Could it be soon somehow?

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  3. gaussling Post author

    Hi Brent,

    Small world. I live to the SW of that airport few klicks. I’m now wishing that I’d bought a ride on it. I wasn’t sure if it was operating out of Vance Brand or Ft Collins-Loveland. Guess you’ve answered that one. I’ll check out the blog.

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  4. John Spevacek

    Payback time:

    36° 24′ 46″N, 105° 04′ 37″W (NAD27) Unfortunately Google doesn’t have the necessary resolution to show this like the cruise missle, but there is a B-24 that crashed there on the south side of Trail Peak in 1942.

    Is there anyone else reading this that can say they’ve relieved themselves while on the wing of a B-24 at 10,000 feet?

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