I saw the same B17 and B24 fly into a regional field up in CT some years ago back. They were coming in to the airport for the weekend and I worked within a half mile of the field. I heard them circling (can't miss the sound of those radials) and raced over. I was and am a private pilot and knew how to get over very close to the numbers on the active runway and got out my aviation band radio (yea, hopeless aviation geek). They came in and first did high speed flybys very low right over the runway... I remember the radio chatter between the two was about how short the runway was.
My father was a B24 pilot in the Pacific in WW2, so it was especially meaningful to me to see (and hear) these bombers flyby this close right off the deck like this.
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