Great stuff, Terry.

Living where I do, about 1 hour south of the EAA, every summer we are treated to an air-armada flying overhead for nearly a full week. The topper was a few years ago.

I was out on the lake a few miles during a surface interval (tech diving) when we heard the strangest prop noise... Looking around we see a B-17 sweep over the ridge and down into the bowl of the river basin- like it's on a close-support bombing run. The thing does a great circle around the entire harbor at what seems like 75mph, banked steeply to the port side, then rights itself and heads back north up the lake toward the show.

My whole team and the support crew all just stood there, mouths agape, for the entire five minutes it was in view.

Now if it had been escorted by a few of the Mustangs... well, we'd probably STILL be standing out there drooling