{"id":263,"date":"2005-06-11T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2005-06-11T23:50:21","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T23:50:21","slug":"new_photo_album_at_last_warbir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/11\/new_photo_album_at_last_warbir\/","title":{"rendered":"New Photo Album at Last: Warbirds!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all you folks who may be into that InterWeb voyeurism thing, I’ve uploaded a new album to my photo gallery<\/a>. It’s a collection of shots I took two years ago when the Collings Foundation<\/a> “Wings of Freedom” tour stopped off in Utah for a weekend. As you may have gathered from my warbird-themed entry<\/a> earlier this week, the Wings of Freedom tour consists of two World War II-vintage bomber aircraft, a B-17 and the only airworthy B-24 left in existence, which travel around the country giving people the rare opportunity to see them up close and in the air.<\/p>\n

Even more exciting than seeing them, however, is the chance to actually ride in one of them. My dad and I took that chance, and even though the initial price tag seemed ridiculous in return for a mere twenty minutes of airtime, we’ve never regretted spending a dime of it. For the record, we chose to fly on the B-24, reasoning that if it’s the only one left, we may never get another chance with this particular model.<\/p>\n

Feeling the vibration of the plane’s engines in your belly, shouting to make yourself heard over their roar, smelling the exhaust and the hot oil and the sun-baked aluminum fuselage… there’s no other word for it except “thrilling.” It’s the closest thing to time-travel you’re ever likely to experience. If you have any interest in history, any desire to know, at least in some small way, what the grandfathers of Generation X went through some sixty years ago, you really must try and catch one of these flights. Some day I intend to write a detailed blog entry about the experience, but for now take my word for it and check out the photos.<\/p>\n

A quick technical note: I haven’t linked directly to the new album because I plan to reorganize the gallery’s directory structure in the next little while (as well as add lots more pictures!), and I didn’t want to leave dead links all over the place. So, for now, just hop over to the gallery<\/a> and open the new album manually. It’s the first one at the top of the page.<\/p>\n

In addition, for anyone who may be interested, I’ve posted a recent picture of my girlfriend Anne and myself in the Random Shots<\/a> album.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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