Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to fly in a B-24 bomber. The plane is in service courtesy of the Collings Foundation. (http://www.collingsfoundation.org/). The Collings Foundation is a non-profit, Educational Foundation, founded in 1979. The purpose of the Foundation is to organize and support “living history” events that enable Americans to learn more about their heritage through direct participation.

The New Castle County Airport hosted the “Wings of Freedom” tour this week and for a price you can take a ride in one of the restored WWII planes. I picked the B-24 bomber.

The B-24 was produced in greater numbers than any other American combat aircraft of World War II and still holds the record as the most produced U.S. military aircraft. It was used by many Allied air forces and every U.S. branch of service during the war, attaining a distinguished war record with its operations in the Northern European, Pacific and Mediterranean theaters.

I now have a new respect for the young men who risked their lives in these flying tuna cans.

Here is a pic of my Dad standing in front of the B-24.

And a pic from the flight.  Note the 50 cal in the bottom left corner of the photo.

We got to dutch early on Sunday and made two quick and familiar dives. We were offered a tour of a few attractions that we hadn’t seen before, and we just filled our tanks so we figured - why not?

Dive Master Kevin took us to another ramp to enter the water and we surface swam to the platform and Kevin navigated us to the School Bus, which we proceeded to enter and look around. We took a short swim to the fire truck and then a long tour back to the dock along the edge of the quarry.

Great sights all along the way.

Attached is an updated map of where we have been in the quarry.