A coworker just told me that on a smoke break he saw a "B-14" fly by. After I made fun of him for awhile, I had him describe to me the plane.. and as the title says, a B-17 is touring around my neck of the woods for the next few days.

Here's an article (with some photos) from a local paper:
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/apr/19/nxxfcbomber20/



There's certainly worse ways to blow $400, but I doubt many of us are able to do that at any rate.. so there's a less glamourous but still pretty cool tour of the plane that can be taken:





I then found the organization's website:
http://www.b17.org/

And their tour dates:
http://www.b17.org/tour/

CA dates:
April 20 - 21, Oxnard, CA
April 23 - 25, Santra Barbara, CA
April 27 - 28, Bakersfield, CA
April 30 - May 2, Hayward, CA
May 4 - 5, Watsonville, CA
May 7 - 9, Napa, CA
May 11 - 12, Chico, CA
May 14 - 16, Sacramento, CA

Awesome its coming to Bakersfield!

Yeah, that's pretty rad! I was only going to post the Oxnard and SB dates, but I remembered you and Cray are along the route in later dates, so I figured CA dates would be good. I think I'll try and make it on the weekend in SB, do a ground tour of the bomber. Are you planning on seeing her?

I guess we were going to have a presence at the Santa Barbara show, but things got in the way.. It would have been pretty cool to have been able to be there in uniform and support the B-17, but oh well. Maybe next time.

I just went on one here in Lancaster a few months back called sentimental journey. It was well worth it. I highly recommend it.

I saw it fly over my work place in Corona last week. It sounds amaizing with those radial engines roaring overhead!

For 5 dollars, hell yeah I'm going to go see it. I'd love to fly in it, but thats just crazy!

I would pay extra to have them let me use that Norden Bomb sight and see how well it can lay down bombs!