B-24J Liberator Walkthrough - March 14, 2014
Ready to climb through a B-24 for the first time in 20 years, maybe this is the same one?
Dad checks out specs on this bomber
This B-24 was abandoned by the RAF in India at war's end
India got it operational in 1948 and used it until 1968
Abandoned again until 1981 & purchased in 1984
Pratt & Whitney R-1830-65 engine with 1200 hp
Restored to flying status in 1989 after 97,000+ labor hours
Will climb inside via the tail ladder for an inside tour
Two of ten M2 Browning .50 cal machine guns
Restoration was made on 80% of 1.2 million parts
Tail twin .50 cal machine gun turret
Step into the aircraft and look backward toward the tailgun
Get closer for a vertical view of the tail gun area
Look forward toward the waist gunners and ball turret
See a bogie off the starboard side!
Ball turret gunner can climb inside a B-24 in flight
Waist gunners ran into each other while defending the A/C
Look forward through the bombay area
Vertical view toward the blocked crew area
Recommend that crewmen not be over 200 pounds
Crew area blocked off from general public
Peer inside a passenger seat area
Beyond which is the pilot and co-pilot cockpit
Zoom in on the flight controls
Radio controller area
Peer underneath the pilot toward the forward ball turret
Look straight up toward the dorsal turret
Then look back toward the open bomb bay area
Side without the bombs is the exit of the aircraft
Circle around the port side of the aircraft
The signature B-24 twin vertical tail
Currently painted as the Witchcraft
Witchcraft flew 130 missions with no crew deaths/injuries
Jerry poses with the only flying B-24 in the world
Andy poses with the B-24J currently painted at Witchcraft