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I arrived over an hour early, having woken up before my alarm went off (unheard of on a Saturday!). And there she was, parked on the ramp at the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, Long Island (some museum pics to follow, BTW- excellent museum!!).
There were eight of us for the first flight of the day; and I had some interesting chats with some of them, and the Overcast's ground crew. Love that nose art... forgot to ask what the bombs signify; this baby was delivered early in 1945 and never saw combat.
I was first in the door by lucky accident, so I got one of the aft-facing flight deck jumpseats for takeoff. Ahh... legroom.
Shooting from here proved interesting, but I did my best reverse-periscope style, and got some decent snaps (and video- watch YouTube, coming soon) of the pre-takeoff activities, as well as the takeoff roll.
That's Yours Truly's noggin in the lower right, BTW... the mighty Wright 1820s are just coming alive here... we then taxiied away from the ramp for the runup.
Cycling the props... this is gonna be fun, I can tell...
Next: part 2!
