I’m going through notes that I made for myself over the last few months, and I found a note that says “the plane we saw.” There’s a link to an article in the Eugene Register-Guard, our local paper.
Sylvan and I were weeding the garden or mowing the lawn in mid-May when a plane flew over. Sylvan looked up, found it, and let me know that a plane was flying over. He does that. “ehya-pane.”
I looked up and saw that this was no ordinary plane. Slow and lumbering, large and silver, four large propellers. “That looks like a B-17 bomber or something,” I thought, but what do I know. For a few seconds, I wondered what might be going on, but the grass was long and Sylvan needed attention, so I quickly taxied the plane to the back of my brain.
Later that weekend, I found an article in the paper explaining that sure enough, a B-17 bomber, one of a dozen still able to fly, had been visiting the Eugene airport as part of a tour to promote preservation and awareness of these historic planes. The plane was available for tours and flights. You can see pictures of the plane we saw on the Experimental Aircraft Association’s B-17 web site. Here’s a taste:
(Photo taken from b17.org. I hope they don’t mind free publicity.)